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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
How to Digitize Eight Million Books ... A Conversation with Michael Keller http://www.honco.net/os/
On a golden late summer afternoon, we strolled across the campus of California's Stanford University. The lawns and pathways were filled with returning students, most of whom were carrying books and cell phones -- emblems of the oldest and newest forms of information and communications technology. Our destination was the Green Library and a meeting with Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of HighWire Press and the Stanford University Press. Deep within the sub-basements of the library, far from the sun and the students above, an experiment was taking place. A robotic scanner, custom built for Stanford, was systematically digitizing parts of the university library's vast collection. Michael Keller, who selected and ordered the robot, is overseeing this unique effort. [The Book and the Computer]
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