Today, the library; tomorrow, the world
By Greg Kline
Sunday March 11, 2007
Robert K. O'Daniell
Chris Jones operates the scanning system used to add 6,000 volumes from the University of Illinois library to the Internet Archive. The project is expected to be done by year's end.
Chris Jones gently turns the pages of a vintage book under a V-shaped, two-pane window of glass set inside a black, office-cubicle-sized booth.
Presto! More or less, the pages appear on the flat-panel computer screen in front of him.
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