Scanning books is not just the creation of digital libraries.

Already more than 23,000 books have been translated into electronic form, in collaboration with Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library.

Library digitizes books mainly for the following reason. ... Thus, the scanning of books not only increases the amount of digital information, and is of historical significance and universal is the cause of conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage.

' The ability to search the text of the book is a great advantage of digital text, ' - said Betsy Kruger (Betsy Kruger), head of digital content. ' You decide whether you want to open a book before you go to the library '.

In addition to working with the University of Internet Archive, Library of the University is also part of the organization Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which is working with Google in an effort to digitize the vast number of books that will be available in Google Books.

According to a press release, Google in June 2007, the company plans to convert into electronic form about 10 million books.

Kruger says that the first thing most precious scanned book library, including many instances, published in the 17th and 18th century. These books are very difficult to study the mass, despite the fact that they contain a lot of important information. Stream scanning books gives you access to these materials to all scientists of the world.

CIC digitizes books, going from one university to another with special equipment for. scanning books. Now the organization is working at the University of Illinois, which was developed to digitize many volumes. CIC plans to five or six months to go to another university.

CIC is also engaged in scanning government documents - for example, such as congressional hearings and reports. In addition, the mass- scanned local newspapers, such as Illinois, have been digitized numbers of early 20th century, The Daily Illini and the Urbana Daily Courier. This allows you to store the local history in the form of a safe and easy to search for publications.

Only in cooperation with the Internet Archive, University of Illinois plans to scan 5000 books a year, despite the fact that this is a costly process. The price includes digitizing and processing of all files, formatting, and. Storage. It is very important for such graphic material as maps. A large-format card after scanning may take up to two terabytes of data.

On average, the Illinois Library is scanned about 500 pages per hour with the help of specialized book scanners. These devices digitize the material very carefully, but there are dilapidated documents, which is dangerous to trust, even this. scanning equipment.

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Source:. dailyillini. com.