The rationale for the plan is a 41% decrease in the use of the collections in the past 15 years, and the increase of online accessibility of the most popular material, with only 6% of print sources consulted in a given year.

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Scholars, researchers, and journalists consistently use both of these collections, along with our small research library.

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Instead of entering full sentences into Google's search field, Pell points out, we've been conditioned to use Cro-Magnon collections of disconnected words.

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It provides an infrastructure that allows sharing of dynamic collections of computational systems, large data storage and other remote facilities that an individual may use.

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This struck us as being the quickest, the fastest, and the most efficient way of getting large-scale additions to our collections online for free use.

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The agreement also states that both parties can use the digitized collections with the consequent benefits this implies, while ICAIC keeps heritage rights and ownership and custody of the original reels of the Noticiero.

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