Re: One million books scanned at U of Michigan

Hi Kathleen,

My tone was irritated because I'm very anxious to have all
these 
books, not all but many of them included in our local
catalogue.

I was not aware about Your cooperation with OCLC . Sorry.

Just one more thing. You have an e-copy and Google has
an-ecopy. 
Why is Your copy closed and only for local use and I have to

depend on the Google copy? Isn't Your copy a better one? Is
not 
the presentation different and is it true as I suspect that
You 
will improve your copy and give it added value? And onother

thing. Journal volumes are nearly impossible to put together
in 
Google but I suspect You will keep the volumes together.

May the sun allways shine on Michigan for this gift to the
rest 
of the world.

With deepest respect

Jan


Folger, Kathleen wrote:
> 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