Million Book Project: Collections Dr. Gloriana St. Clair University Librarian, Carnegie Mellon

Thesis Project has great potential to make good information available to more scholars.

Thesis The future of libraries is digital.

Main Points Genesis of the project is with Raj Reddy. Copyright is a difficulty for the project. Collection will be a conglomerate of many collections.

Genesis

Project Personnel

Chinese Universities Participating Chinese Academy of Science Chinese Ministry of Education Fudan University Nanjing University Peking University Tsinghua University Zheijiang University

People at Carnegie Mellon The directors of the existing Universal Library Project will serve as the main consultants for the project: Dr. Raj Reddy Dr. Michael Shamos Dr. Jaime Carbonell Dr. Robert Thibadeau Dr. Gloriana St. Clair

People at Carnegie Mellon Additional University Libraries personnel include: Ms. Gabrielle Michalek Ms. Erika Linke Ms. Denise Troll

People Elsewhere Project personnel also include: Dr. Ching-Chih Chen, Simmons College Dr. Gao Wen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Sciences Super Computing Center Dr. Daniel Greenstein, Digital Library Federation

People Elsewhere Michael Lesk, National Science Foundation Brewster Kahle and Niall O’Driscoll, Internet Archive

Copyright

Copyright is the Biggest Reality U. S. copyright is now 95 years. Many books are out of print but restricted by copyright for ~93 years. Copyright can be cleared by asking permission to scan.

Collections

A Collection of Collections Books will represent a variety of languages including material originating in China and India, our partners. Partners will select and include collections of cultural importance.

A Collection of Collections Copyright-cleared Books for College Libraries. Technical reports. University press publications. Government documents. Pre-1923 books, now in depositories.

U. S. Collection Partners University of California Berkeley Stanford University Indiana University University of Washington TriColleges (Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr) Pennsylvania State University

Best Books Feature Books for College Libraries 60,000 best books, published in $80,000 needed for a copyright clearance project.

Subject Collections Sending proposals to small foundations for money to support copyright clearance for resources in subjects such as history and environment. Discussed putting up a segment of materials to support literacy.

University Press Negotiations National Academy Press We will scan early materials and exchange for some 2,500 they are scanning. MIT Press Discussed scanning some of their backlog.

Government Documents U. S. government produces about 100,000 documents per year; mostly in the public domain. Have 30 boxes of Dept of Education materials. Negotiating with other agencies Some highly desired collections British Parliamentary Papers, thousands, 1950 back copyright o.k.

Conclusions The collection must be composed of many sub-collections. Copyright is a serious barrier to an effective effort. Librarians need to be brought into the picture to ensure solid selection criteria.

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