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...says that because the libraries need to spend money to continuously acquire new library material, it is difficult to direct money to digitizing already existing resources. Collaborations with other research libraries will likely prove helpful in keeping costs down, she says, as there is really only need to digitally scan one copy of a book, regardless of its source...
...While the Open Collections Program digitizes comprehensive collections on a specific historical subject, the University’s collaboration with Google—announced in 2004—seeks to scan all of Harvard’s non-copyrighted book collection, a project that is currently underway and that could eventually cover more than a million works...
...Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes on the end of each crate. Reliance will soon install air-conditioners to keep the warehouse at 18?C even when the outside temperature hits 40?C. "It's a luxury that not many people can afford," jokes one worker...
...need only occasionally scan the Crimson editorial pages to see our overwrought campus political culture in action. To follow up on his banal campaign promises, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 wrote a February op-ed proposing an e-mail “hotline” to monitor more close the quality of teaching fellows. To record her unwavering advocacy for greater “gender equality,” Dems President Brigit M. Helgen ’08 authored a pair of ho-hum editorials supporting more women in leadership positions. And, most self-serving...
...search the text of a book using the Sony Reader, and that's a disappointment, since searchability is one of the main reasons to digitize a book in the first place. Google is spending a fortune to scan millions of library books into a massive database because to Google's all-seeing eye, books are a hopelessly inefficient way to store information. That doesn't mean books are obsolete. You can use Google Books to retrieve a single valuable snippet of information from a book, but you could never actually read a whole book on a computer screen. The Sony...