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

2. 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

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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).

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

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

10. Thank You
Dr. Gloriana St. Clair Dean of University Libraries Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.