[gutvol-d] [forward] Bookscanning Launch and Vision of an Open Library

[Note: Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive posted last night the following article to 'archivists-talk'. Enjoy! Jon Noring] At an Internet Archive event in San Francisco tonight 14 libraries and MSN joined the Open Content Alliance. MSN kicked off their association by committing to scan 150k books in 2006! (this is a big deal, in my opinion). Also, a vision website has a cool bookviewer, the first books from the University of California in a cool bookviewer, and a book on the vision of an Open Library: http://www.openlibrary.org Here is a posting about the event http://www.archive.org/iathreads/ post-view.php?id=45685 -brewster