January 3, 2007—The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it is providing broader access to a larger audience by making agency library materials available through its public Web site. Retrieving materials will reportedly be more efficient and easier to locate by using EPA’s online collection and reference services.
To date, more than 22,000 of 51,000 EPA documents are available through the agency’s public Web site and all EPA unique documents will be online within two years, says the agency. Documents from libraries within the network that no longer have physical space will be online as of January 2007.
EPA says its documents will remain available via interlibrary loans during the digitization process. Regional offices will continue providing library services through EPA’s library network. Materials that are not EPA unique remain available through the archive at EPA headquarters or through the interlibrary loan program.
For more about EPA Libraries, visit the agency’s site.
