Million Book Project in U. S. and India International Conference on The Future of the Book April 22, 2003 Gloriana St. Clair Carnegie Mellon University

Thesis Project has great potential to make good information available to more scholars, both digitally and as artifact.

Main Points Project overview Publisher potential Collection of collections Research initiatives Back to the artifact

Project Funding $3.6M NSF funding for equipment and travel. $1.5M Indian government funding.

People at Carnegie Mellon Raj ReddyMichael ShamosGloriana St. Clair

People at Carnegie Mellon Erika Linke Denise Troll Covey Gabrielle Michalek Eric Burns

Internet Archive Michael Lesk Brewster Kahle

“Libraries have played a vital role in the advance of human society. They have supplemented the formal education system by making human knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access to them. Human advance, including especially science and engineering, has depended on young people having access to books via libraries.”

Publisher Potential National Academy Press experience, Books in-copyright, out-of-print. On-demand publishing with fees to publishers.

Copyright is the biggest reality of the project. Denise Troll Covey will speak about copyright this afternoon.

A Collection of Collections Books will represent a variety of languages, including material originating in India. Partners will select and include collections of cultural importance. Copyright-cleared Books for College Libraries.

Sending 1M books to Hyderabad International Scanning Center…

Research Initiatives Machine translation Massive distributed database Storage formats Use of digital libraries Distribution and sustainability Security

Back to the Artifact Kahle’s trip with the Internet Bookmobile for Eldred v. Ashcroft in October Turning digital books back into print Photos from

Presentation to India’s President A. J. P. Abdul Kamal, Pictoral Hyderabad. Back to the Artifact

“The idea is compelling, the enhancements to education and learning can be intuited -- and few, if anyone, would object to the conceptual framework.”

“In the end, this will be Vannevar Bush’s Memex.” - Michael Lesk, Internet Archive Bush, “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly (July 1945).

Joint Project / Three Levels Whole country - Government funding for labor. Major library partners - Send returnable books. Other library partners - Send non-returnable duplicates.

Conclusions Project has great potential for readers, authors, and publishers. Collection of collections may increase life and reach of scholarly works. The artifact continues to be important and is easily accessible from the Million Book Project.

Gloriana St. Clair Carnegie Mellon University Librarian Thank You