In a dimly-lit room on the second level of the University of Michigan Library, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare Bible.
Mitchel is among hundreds of librarians making digital versions of the most fragile of books to be included in Google’s Book Search, a portal that will eventually lead users to all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world.
“It’s monotonous,” the 24-year-old said. Then she knit her career hopes into the work. Google, the Internet’s leader in search says, the process it developed and is using for scanning the majority of the books in Book Search is proprietary.
> Insight from CANOE
No comments:
Post a Comment