Section 11-802 - Authorization to encourage certain institutions to meet certain goals. - Maryland Statutes

§ 11-802. Authorization to encourage certain institutions to meet certain goals.
 

On receipt of recommendations from the Maryland Digital Library Advisory Council the Commission may encourage each academic library at a public or private nonprofit institution of postsecondary education to: 

(1) Increase shared access to information of critical value in Internet-accessible electronic form and in library collections of books, journals, sound recordings, and other traditional forms of material; 

(2) Optimize effective use of funding in the acquisition and creation of digital resources; 

(3) Digitize unique collections in the academic library to create Internet and other on-line resources beneficial to elementary, secondary, and higher education; 

(4) Train librarians and staff to improve services in the information technology environment; and 

(5) Develop programs that support training library users to access Internet and electronic materials. 
 

[2004, ch. 402.]