May 22, 2013

Library of Congress Posts Open Solicitation For Third Party Digitization Services

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The solicitation was released late yesterday and is embedded below.

It follows a 2012 request for information that we mentioned on August 10, 2012.

Here’s a synopsis of the solicitation:

This solicitation is for the [our emphasis] no-cost procurement of digitization services for the Library of Congress (Library). The Library seeks proposals from commercial and non-commercial entities in the digital content community, such as e-book publishers or distributors, educational institutions, libraries, archives, and others involved in the development of digital collections and dissemination of digital materials, to digitize Library materials in an effort to increase accessibility to the Library’s collections.

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This is a standing solicitation continuously open for offers. Offers will be reviewed twice a year in April and October. This slicitation is closing on April 30, 2013. An amendment will be issued thereafer for October submissions.

Third Party Digitization Solicitation From The Library of Congress

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.