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Tuesday, 20th April 2010

Internet Archive News: University of Toronto Has Now Digitised More than 250K Titles

For years, the U. of Toronto Libraries have been digitising material to be added to the Internet Archive.

A note today from CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, and a non-profit with funding from the Canadian government, reports that U. of Toronto Libraries have passed the 250K mark of scanned and digitised texts for the Internet Archive collection with at least 250K titles to go.

From the Announcement:

The University of Toronto library team sends approximately one terabyte of data, in the form of scanned books, per day

This data transfer would not be possible on the commercial Internet, as the size of these files would take up too much bandwidth and potentially bring down the network.

"This initiative has enabled the University of Toronto to transform its libraries into focal points for research collaboration and work hubs that create new opportunities for students, staff, and faculty, and that enable the Ontario and world communities to take advantage of the extraordinary resources in our libraries' holdings", notes Marshall Clinton, Director, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

If you want to only review titles scanned at the U. of Toronto, use this link. If you would like to see the database grow with only materials from Toronto, this RSS feed will do the trick and/or this web page.

At the end of Apil, the complete Internet Archive E-Book and Text Collection passed the 2 million items mark. Today, the total reads,

Source: CANARIE

See Also: On Demand Book Service (ODBS) project at University of Toronto (via Internet Archive Blog, 3-24-10)

See Also: In 2005, ResourceShelf Linked to this Article from the WSJ in 2005
It's the story of a person who was digitizing materials a the University of Toronto.


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