Re: One million books scanned at U of Michigan

[Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski@ub.gu.se>]

Hi Kathleen,

My tone was irritated because I'm very anxious to have all these 
books, not all but many of them included in our local catalogue.

I was not aware about Your cooperation with OCLC . Sorry.

Just one more thing. You have an e-copy and Google has an-ecopy. 
Why is Your copy closed and only for local use and I have to 
depend on the Google copy? Isn't Your copy a better one? Is not 
the presentation different and is it true as I suspect that You 
will improve your copy and give it added value? And onother 
thing. Journal volumes are nearly impossible to put together in 
Google but I suspect You will keep the volumes together.

May the sun allways shine on Michigan for this gift to the rest 
of the world.

With deepest respect

Jan


Folger, Kathleen wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> The records for the University of Michigan books that have been
> digitized, either by Google or in-house, are in MIRLYN, our OPAC.
> Additionally, our commitment to working with OCLC to share the
> records has been widely publicized.  There have been delays in
> moving that process forward, but not on our part. We have set up
> processes that OCLC has tested and we have made all of our data
> available to OCLC. We have also made brief records for the public
> domain materials available through OAIster and other means, and
> we've heard about several institutions incorporating those
> records into their discovery mechanisms (e.g. Primo, Aquabrowser
> and, perhaps, even OPACs)
>
> -Kathleen
> _________________________________________
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> University of Michigan University Library
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> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Jan Szczepanski
> Sent: Tue 2/5/2008 7:21 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: One million books scanned at U of Michigan
>
> This is impressive:
>
> "The project will create new ways for users to search and access
> Library content, opening up our library collections to our own
> users and to users throughout the world"
>
> "Users throughout the world"? Yes, if You allow me to import the
> one milion marc-records!
>
> If Michigan at least could have made them visible through a
> catalogue instead of celebrating something that Google fullfills!
>
> "Google Book Search will help you find books digitized in the
> Michigan Digitization Project (MBooks) and Google's partnerships
> with other libraries around the world"
>
> Where are the marc-records to be found?
>
> A heap of books is not a library. A library is created when You
> have a catalogue. That is a milestone.
>
> Jan Szczepanski
>
>
> B.G. Sloan wrote:
>
>
> > "Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw
> > themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their
> > ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection.
> > They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million
> > to go."
> >
> > http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2717/
> >
> > Bernie Sloan