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RE: One million books scanned at U of Michigan
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- Subject: RE: One million books scanned at U of Michigan
- From: "Folger, Kathleen" <kfolger@umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:28:46 EST
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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 _________________________________________ Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer University of Michigan University Library 312 Hatcher North Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 V: (734) 764-9375 F: (734) 764-0259 kfolger@umich.edu ________________________________ 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
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