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MBooks project reaches one-million-volume milestone
(Feb 2008) A: Sixteen miles of shelving, or 42 terabytes of disk space.
Q: How much storage would you need to hold the one million books the Michigan Digitization Project, or MBooks project, has now put online?
Well on its way to its goal of scanning all of its more than seven million volumes to digital form, the U-M Library has just posted online the one-millionth book from its collections. The library has been working with Google on the massive digitization project.
"As far as I know Michigan is the first library to have one million books from its own collections digitized and available for search," writes Paul Courant, University Librarian and professor of information, economics, and public policy.
The millionth title posted? Maria Mitchell: life, letters and journals.
Read more about the milestone at www.lib.umich.edu/news/millionth.html → and on Paul Courant's blog, Au Courant →.
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