Major Internet players are partnering with libraries to explore digitization. Given these kinds of discussions, how are our books and the places we get them likely to change in the future?
The Panelists
The people behind the table
- Daniel Clancy
- Bob Stein
- USC Annenberg Center for Communication
- Danielle Tiedt
- GM, Microsoft
- Liz Lawley
- Professor, RIT
Relevant Reading
The sites and articles to start with
If you only read five web pages, be sure to check these out
- Different Paths Taken to Book Digitization
- One comparison and contrast of the Google Print Library Project and the Open Content Alliance
- Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print
- Despite clashes with publishers over copyright, Google's plan to make millions of books available online is turning the tide for efforts to digitize the world's literature. Andreas von Bubnoff tracks the demise of the printed page.
- Ethics of Digital Librarianship
- A 1992 essay by the founder of the Internet Archives, which is part of the OCA
- Checking out the Machines Behind Book Digitization
- What kinds of scanners do this heavy lifting?
Projects to Pay Attention to
The major players, and then some
Some efforts to explore
- Google Book Search Library Project
- "An enhanced card catalog of the world's books"
- Open Content Alliance
- "The collaborative efforts of a group of organizations that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content"
- The Institute for the Future of the Book
- "Starting with the assumption that the locus of intellectual discourse is shifting from printed page to networked screen, the primary goal of the Institute for the Future of the Book is to explore, understand and influence this shift. The institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California and is based in Brooklyn, New York."
- Project Gutenberg
- "Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers."
One Conference to Consider
Liz mentioned this recent event
What are the other crucial conferences about this topic? Let me know using the Contact link to the right.
- Scholarship and Libraries in Transition
- "A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects" at the University of Michigan
Digitization in the News
Recent headlines
A Google News feed on the topic of book digitization
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Pictures from Flickr
What kinds of photos come up when you search for the tag "digitization"?
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Books Worth a Look
Read these books before they're scanned!
Are there print texts about book digitzation worth reading? You betcha.
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Amazon Price: $12.83 (as of 12/06/2009) 
Used Price: $0.01
The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
Amazon Price: $19.50 (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $0.24
The Future of the Book
Amazon Price: $20.00 (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $4.23
Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)
Amazon Price: $27.95 (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $4.25
How to Build a Digital Library (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Amazon Price: $58.45 (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $24.74
Understanding Digital Libraries, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Amazon Price: $48.70 (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $39.99
Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/06/2009)
Used Price: $0.34
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