Internet Archive's Open-Text Archives Initiative

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

I think this announcement may have been pushed aside by the recent
Google/library announcement...it was published on December 15.

"Today, a number of International libraries have committed to putting
their digitized books in open-access archives, starting with one at the
Internet Archive. This approach will ensure permanent and public access to
our published heritage. Anyone with an Internet connection will have
access to these collections and the growing set of tools to make use of
them. In this way we are getting closer to the goal of Universal Access to
All Knowledge."

Full text of the Internet Archive news release available through:

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=25361 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu