Wanted: Photos of Google’s Book Digitization Project

Posted: March 9th, 2007 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Books, Technology, University of Michigan |

I’ve engaged in some speculation before about the size and character of Google’s effort to digitize the nearly 5 million volumes in the University of Michigan library as part of their plan to digitize the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library. I’ve also long intended to post this request.

I’m looking for photos of the process at work at any of these libraries. I will protect the privacy of any submitted photos to the fullest extent I am able. Please email them to rob.goodspeed at gmail.com

4 Comments on “Wanted: Photos of Google’s Book Digitization Project”

  1. #1 Matthew Gilmore said at 2:07 pm on March 12th, 2007:

    Check out:
    http://library.stanford.edu/depts/diroff/DLStatement.html
    and
    http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/publisher/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002035592
    and
    http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/en/digitization/pro_predigi.html
    and
    http://www.aipberoun.cz/Site/sluzby_digitalizace_dig3_en.htm
    for some idea of how it’ll be done.

  2. #2 Matthew Gilmore said at 3:27 pm on March 12th, 2007:

    And for a critique:
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december06/bearman/12bearman.html

  3. #3 volvolution1 said at 12:12 am on March 13th, 2007:

    I believe this is one of the Google machines:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fungibleconvictions/61981339/

  4. #4 Rob said at 1:11 am on March 13th, 2007:

    I’m still interested in a photo of the whole operation in action at one of the participant universities.

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