mass digitization projects

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A Few Thoughts on the Google Books Library Project

Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:A Few Thoughts on the Google Books Library Project (ID: EQM0812)
Author(s):Charles Edward Smith
Origin:EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles (02/13/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Only by transforming knowledge contained in print to new and easily accessible digital formats can we guarantee its survival.

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Scholarship and Libraries in Transition Symposium Webcast

Created by rmcdonald (Florida State University) on March 11, 2006
There is a very high quality webcast going on of this symposium if anyone is online this morning and is interested in the economics of mass digitization projects such as the Google Print Project or the Open Content Alliance.

Go to:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium/webcast.html

for a windows and real stream.

There is also a symposium blog at - http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/sltsymposium/