In January of 2007, the Task Force on Digitization Policy of ALA's 
Office for Information Technology Policy introduced the draft Principles 
for Digitized Content. The goal of the principles is to succinctly voice 
the primary policy areas that can guide libraries as they make decisions 
regarding digitization. The nine principles are now available on the ALA 
blog site at http://blogs.ala.org/digitizationprinciples.php. The blog 
is an online area for your comments on the Principles, and we invite you 
to read them and give us your ideas. The blog will be accepting your 
comments until May 1, 2007. Comments from individuals are welcome, but 
if you are posting for an ALA Unit, please so indicate in your text.

The goal, after a review and comment period, is a concise document that 
would be officially adopted by ALA as a statement of where libraries 
stand on the policy issues raised by widespread digitization of library 
materials. The Task Force would like to present this document for 
approval by ALA Council at the 2007 annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Printable copies of the principles document, a list of Task Force 
members, and other background documents are available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/contactwo/oitp/digtask.htm

Thank you!
The OITP Task Force on Digitization Policy