[Sigia-l] Stanford-Google project

[Jennifer Ward]

Michael Keller, Stanford University Librarian, talks about their scanner
and plans for the future at http://www.honco.net/os/index.html

Cheers,
Jennifer


On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Leslie Johnston wrote:

:What Stanford has that no other ARL libraries have is a very high-speed
:scanner about half the size of a SUV.  They can process their public domain
:books faster than any of the rest of us can.
:
:When the OCLC digital masters catalog gets up and running, it will be
:interesting to see just how much overlap (or not) we all have in our
:digitized book collections.
:
:Separately, Sanford gave up its ARL membership this past December.  They
:just issued a statement.
:
:At 08:42 AM 2/1/2004 -0600, Steven L. MacCall, Ph.D. wrote:
:>----- Original Message -----
:>From: "Listera" <listera at rcn.com>
:>
:> > Anyone know if there's anything particularly different/special in the
:> > pre-1923 Stanford collection?
:> >
:>
:>I would guess off of the top of my head that 75% (if not more) of Stanford's
:>pre 1923 collection likely replicated in the each of the other 110 ARL
:>(i.e., major university) libraries in North
:>America.(http://www.arl.org/members.html) ... its proximity to the Google
:>headquarters no doubt the key in this deal...
:>
:>slm
:>
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