Library digitization efforts stall
Yale considers new options after Microsoft cancels project
After the recent collapse of an ambitious digitization project, most of Yale’s books will remain exclusively on shelves — at least for now.
In May, only seven months into what was supposed to be an 18-month-long effort to put images of 100,000 of Yale’s libraries’ books on the Web, Microsoft unexpectedly withdrew funding from its partnership with the University. Although the software giant has pledged to complete scanning of the approximately 32,000 volumes already sent to the scanners, the remaining 68,000 tomes that were part of the original contract will not move off the...
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