Andrew Hubbertz's Update 2007: Collection and Preservation of Web-Based Provincial/Territorial Government Publications, mentions that the Legislative Library of Ontario is planning to make public digitized versions of their collections. The funding for digitization would come from Knowledge Ontario (KO).
I e-mailed KO as to when that might happen and what the scope of the collection would entail. The response from Loren Fantin, Project Manager, OurOntario.ca ( subset of KO) was:
The government documents will be made available
through the OurOntario site - http://www.ourontario.ca.
The projected time frame is late fall. I'll send an announcement out to
various list-servs and will post the information on the Knowledge
Ontario website as well.
It would be great if the digitized collection remains permanent and covers all legislation, committee reports and other papers from at least 1980 forward. Smaller libraries then will not have to worry about keeping print copies in perpetuity for their customers. Exciting news!
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