Re: One million books scanned at U of Michigan

[Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski@ub.gu.se>]

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