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Mon 02 Feb 1999Moving statutes captured on disk
Irish Statute Book on CDRom, Government Publications, £20
Governments around the world have been making enormous quantities of useful information available in electronic form, and the Irish government has been catching up slowly but surely. The Irish State's usage of electronic publishing techniques has increased over the past few years and the publication of Irish legislation on CD-Rom at a reasonable price is welcome. It was a daunting task - converting 42,000 pages of print, which occupies 4.5 metres of shelf space, into one disk.
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