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Friday, 9th June 2006

Digitization: U.C. system signs on to Microsoft book-scan project

Professional Reading: Digitization: U.C. system signs on to Microsoft book-scan project (via News.com)
"The University of California and the University of Toronto libraries have agreed to lend their collections of out-of-copyright material held in trust. In concert with the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft will scan and index the materials for use in its Windows Live Book Search, according to a Microsoft statement issued Friday."
Much of this, in terms of partners, has been know for some time. Today's news appears to be an expansion of the UC and Toronto digitization projects. Here's the official news release.

Quick Review:
+ Last October, the University of California Announced Its Involvement with the OCA and Scanning Books.
Focus on American Literature.

+ Microsoft Became Part of the Open Content Alliance Last October
At that time Microsoft said it was committing to digitize 150k books.

+ Microsoft will release Microsoft Live Books in the Future.
They have just announced a program for publishers to submit material directly to them. Similar to what Amazon.com and Google Book Search offer publishers.

+ The University of Toronto (and other Canadian Libraries) Have Been Scanning Materials (for the Internet Archive and the OCA) for some time. See this page from the Internet Archive. Other IA text digitization collections here.

+ Cool! You can view a video of the University of Toronto book scanning robot in action.

+ In November 2005 the WSJ profiled a person who scans books at the University of Toronto

+ Yahoo and RLG are also members of the OCA.

See Also: Other Digital Book Projects Like ebrary and NetLibrary

See Also: The Online Books Page
The source for out-of-copyright books. Look at how material is added daily.

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