PALINET's Mass Digitization Collaborative pilots now underway

"The pilot program of PALINET's new Mass Digitization Collaborative is now underway. The Mass Digitization Collaborative, funded by the PALINET membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is scheduled to be open to all PALINET members in October 2008, offering members the opportunity to contribute materials to a regional mass digitization project. PALINET facilitates the process by selecting vendors and developing a collaborative collection development policy, guidelines, standards, and workflows"