“We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”
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A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations
Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinati...
New Blog for Ebooks in Libraries: “No Shelf Required”
Sue Polanka, head of reference and instruction at the main library of Wright State University, sent a message to the OhioLINK membership today about a new bl...
Out of Print Books Get New Life via Amazon and Participating Libraries
Why settle for mere digital copies of books (a la the Google Book Search project and the Open Content Alliance) when you can have an edition printed, bound a...
Brewster Kahle on the Economics and Feasibility of Mass Book Digitization
Brewster Kahle, Director of the Internet Archive, was interviewed this week in a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast on the Economics and Feasibility of Ma...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...