Accomplishments of the Million Book Project Presented to 2nd ICUDL November 2006 Dr. Gloriana St. Clair Dean of University Libraries

Mission Accomplished: World at Over One Million Purpose Create free-to-read digital library Create test bed for technologies Scan more than a million books National Science Foundation says MBP has succeeded Subsequent entry of Google and OCA implies the task has been accomplished

MBP Directors Jaime Carbonell Raj Reddy Michael Shamos Gloriana St. Clair

Collection Development 2006 Created National Agriculture Library (NAL) specifications for Million Book Project Assembled and shipped a large container of books to Shenzhen; expect to send another shipment soon Entered into negotiations with Qatar Foundation to digitize and make available via the Million Book Project the contents of the Heritage Collection Library of Qatar Continue to build relationships with other US libraries to contribute materials to the project. To date, Johns Hopkins, Molloy College, NAL and others have contributed materials to the project. We have verbal commitments from Cornell, NAL and Oregon Sate University to contribute additional materials.

Technical Milestones 2006 OCLC Data Transfer Created new logon accounts for project participants to allow downloading MARC record for each book Currently troubleshooting OCLC connection speeds Data Transfer Received 2 TB of data from Chinese partners; waiting for access to data at CMU site Transferred data to NAL partners; waiting for feedback on data quality from NAL

Challenge: Universal Sharing Issues Sharing Advantages Reliable, Available, Dependable & Secure Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) Increased use Philosophy Cooperation model Download single book Vision All knowledge for the world Sharing Disadvantage Pride of ownership and recognition

Challenge: Human Attention Herb Simon’s construct* Design Principles Using information technology Organizing information for learning Presenting knowledge * “Cooperation between Educational Technology and Learning Theory to Advance Higher Education” (2002).

Challenge: International Partnership Critical to success An enriching experience The only way to achieve a repository of all knowledge accessible to the world

Conclusions Celebrate accomplishment Focus on what’s next Working together is work The results are worth our effort

Thank You Dr. Gloriana St. Clair gstclair@andrew.cmu.edu Dean of University Libraries Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890 U.S.A.