From: Neil Barton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 September 2005 10:46
To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society
Subject: Fw: From Book People Via Victoria about Google's Project Ocean and
Oxford
Apologies for more cross posting but thought it would be of interest to our
list to. Ronald Milne's presentation is at
http://www.curl.ac.uk/members/documents/BodleysVision.pdf
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From: "Valerie Gorman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: From Book People about Google's Project Ocean and Oxford
> I received this post via the Book People Mailing List and thought it of
> interest to Victorianists as well:
>
> Valerie Gorman
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>
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> From: "Ballard, Terry Prof." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Book People Mailing List" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:13 PM
> Subject: [BP] Google's Project Ocean and Oxford
>
>
> I was just in Oxford last week for the Third International Conference on
> the Book and heard Ronald Milne, acting director of the Bodleian Library
> talk about their digitization project with Google. It was eye-opening to
> say the least, because I've been hearing that the project is stalled in
> legalities, but somebody forgot to tell the Bodleian that, because
> they're ready to start scanning in the next week or so. It will be full
> image in the manner of JSTOR, and this will be quite exciting because
> their target group of a million 19th century titles includes a number of
> Kelmscott press books and the lavishly illustrated travel books of Sir
> Richard Burton. A full report of this can be found on my blog at:
>
>
> http://librariansonedge.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Terry
>
>
> Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian
>
> The Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University
>
>
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