Selected snippets from LibraryLaw Blog:
Digital
ILL and the Open Library
October 23, 2007
LibraryLaw Blog
...The idea of libraries getting funding to make digitized books freely available is a wonderful idea. ...According to the paper, the Boston Consortium is going to spend $850,000 of their own money to digitize books. At the $30/book figure quoted in the article, that is at most 30,000 books over two years. Some of the Google partners are doing that many books in two weeks.
What I found scary in Peter's post [Peter Brantley, O'Reilly blog ]was the suggestion that the group is going to try to re-invent ILL...
1 comment:
Digization in my opinion has not just benefited libraries but some publishers as well.
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Tia
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