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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="11-802" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Higher Education Commission" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Maryland Digital Library">
  <text>On receipt of recommendations from the Maryland Digital Library Advisory Council the Commission may encourage each academic library at a public or private nonprofit institution of postsecondary education to:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Increase shared access to information of critical value in Internet-accessible electronic form and in library collections of books, journals, sound recordings, and other traditional forms of material;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Optimize effective use of funding in the acquisition and creation of digital resources;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Digitize unique collections in the academic library to create Internet and other on-line resources beneficial to elementary, secondary, and higher education;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Train librarians and staff to improve services in the information technology environment; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Develop programs that support training library users to access Internet and electronic materials.</text>
  </level>
</section>
