Google partnership will help preserve UI collection
By Greg Kline
Sunday June 17, 2007
John Dixon
Lura Joseph, a University of Illinois geology librarian and professor of library administration, holds a volume from the Geology Library collection. The UI is partnering with Google to digitize its large collection of older, damanged volumes.
University of Illinois Library officials were excited earlier this year when they started a project to digitize nearly 6,000 volumes of the library's holdings and make the material available via the Web.
The UI library has worked on smaller digitization efforts since the mid-1990s. But the project with the Open Content Alliance – a coalition of educational institutions, high-tech firms and others that's making public-domain electronic books freely available through the Internet Archive, its parent organization – should be the largest single effort of the kind undertaken by the UI when it is done, probably by year's end.
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