RE: One million books scanned at U of Michigan

Hi Jan,

The records for the University of Michigan books that have
been 
digitized, either by Google or in-house, are in MIRLYN, our
OPAC. 
Additionally, our commitment to working with OCLC to share
the 
records has been widely publicized.  There have been delays
in 
moving that process forward, but not on our part. We have
set up 
processes that OCLC has tested and we have made all of our
data 
available to OCLC. We have also made brief records for the
public 
domain materials available through OAIster and other means,
and 
we've heard about several institutions incorporating those 
records into their discovery mechanisms (e.g. Primo,
Aquabrowser 
and, perhaps, even OPACs)

-Kathleen
_________________________________________
Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer
University of Michigan University Library
312 Hatcher North
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1205
V:  (734) 764-9375
F:  (734) 764-0259
kfolgerumich.edu

________________________________

From: owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu on behalf of
Jan Szczepanski
Sent: Tue 2/5/2008 7:21 PM
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: One million books scanned at U of Michigan

This is impressive:

"The project will create new ways for users to search
and access 
Library content, opening up our library collections to our
own 
users and to users throughout the world"

"Users throughout the world"? Yes, if You allow me
to import the 
one milion marc-records!

If Michigan at least could have made them visible through a

catalogue instead of celebrating something that Google
fullfills!

"Google Book Search will help you find books digitized
in the 
Michigan Digitization Project (MBooks) and Google's
partnerships 
with other libraries around the world"

Where are the marc-records to be found?

A heap of books is not a library. A library is created when
You 
have a catalogue. That is a milestone.

Jan Szczepanski


B.G. Sloan wrote:

> "Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor threw
> themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone
in their
> ambitious effort to scan every single book in the
collection.
> They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just
6.5-million
> to go."
>
> http:/
/chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2717/
>
> Bernie Sloan