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File #: BL2024-677   
Type: Bill (Ordinance) Status: Passed
File created: 12/5/2024 In control: Metropolitan Council
On agenda: 2/4/2025 Final action: 2/4/2025
Title: An Ordinance approving a license agreement between the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Nashville Public Library, and Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., a Virginia Corporation, to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records.
Sponsors: Delishia Porterfield, Brenda Gadd, Ginny Welsch, Quin Evans-Segall, Terry Vo, Sandy Ewing
Attachments: 1. Records Digitization and Publication Agreement
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An Ordinance approving a license agreement between the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Nashville Public Library, and Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., a Virginia Corporation, to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records.
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WHEREAS, it is to the mutual benefit of Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. and the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Nashville Public Library, to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records; and,
WHEREAS, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. and the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Nashville Public Library, have entered into a license agreement, attached hereto and incorporated herein, to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that this license agreement be approved.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. That the license agreement between Ancestry.com Inc. and the Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Nashville Public Library, to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records, attached hereto and incorporated herein, is hereby approved.
Section 2. That any amendments to this License Agreement shall be approved by resolution of the Metropolitan Council receiving twenty-one affirmative votes.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, the welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
Agenda Analysis
Analysis

This ordinance approves a license agreement between the Nashville Public Library ("NPL") and Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. ("Ancestry"), to digitize certain library documents and microfilm records.

Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, NPL will provide Ancestry with copies of historical records. Ancestry will then create digital images from the rec...

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