UI's effort to digitize books surpasses 15,000 volumes
By Paul Wood
Monday April 13, 2009
Heather Coit
Mary Stuart shows how the March 7, 1918, edition of the Urbana Daily Courier has been digitized from microfilm at the University of Illinois Library.
Abraham Lincoln held his own law school, reading classic texts by candlelight.
If he were alive and reading today, he might have access to a laptop with a nice backlit display, and could take advantage of a huge – and free – corpus of books courtesy of the University of Illinois Library.
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