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Thursday, 25th October 2007

Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance Grows to 80 Contributing Libraries

From a post by Brewster Kahle:

...the Internet Archive's Open Content Alliance grew to 80 contributing libraries.

We have scanned over 100,000 books now available to everyone. (Over 250,000 total.)***

The New York Times has an article today on page 1, above the fold!

Other announcements of the OCA include:

* Digital inter-library loan of out-of-print works starting;

* Mass Microfilm scanning program started;

* Mass journal literature scanning program started;

* OpenLibrary.org opensource site now has tech framework for online book catalog and books;

* Print-on-demand machine demonstrated with OCA books.

*** Illinois Harvest from the University of Illinois is One Example of an Open Content Alliance Digitization Project
One collection contains full text materials about Abraham Lincoln

See Also: Digitized Book of the Week Blog (via U of I Library)
Try a book in the "Flip Book" Format.

See Also: American Library Association Archived Digital Collections

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