Transforming Our Libraries from Analog to Digital: A 2020 Vision | EDUCAUSE

Amyluv's bookmarks 2018-04-26

Summary:

"For the books we cannot buy in electronic form, I am proposing a collaborative effort to select and digitize the most widely held and used books of the 20th and 21st centuries, and to build a robust system to circulate the resulting e-books to millions and eventually billions of people...

I believe that building a major library at the scale of the Princeton University Library, the Yale University Library, or the Boston Public Library would require institutions to offer access to a curated digital collection of 10 million books, most of which are post-1923...."

Link:

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/3/transforming-our-libraries-from-analog-to-digital-a-2020-vision

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oa.new oa.ia oa.digitization oa.books oa.copyright oa.libraries

Date tagged:

04/26/2018, 13:06

Date published:

04/26/2018, 09:06