Maryland Education Section 11-802
§ 11-802.
  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:
    (1)   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;
    (2)   Optimize effective use of funding in the acquisition and creation of digital resources;
    (3)   Digitize unique collections in the academic library to create Internet and other on-line resources beneficial to elementary, secondary, and higher education;
    (4)   Train librarians and staff to improve services in the information technology environment; and
    (5)   Develop programs that support training library users to access Internet and electronic materials.