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November 28, 2006
Reference Collection to be Digitized
On Friday, December 1, 2006, the Thompson Library will be sending selected, generally lesser-used or non-circulating portions of its collection to have the materials digitized by Google. These volumes will be off our shelves from that date until January 10, 2007. While we believe that inconveniences will be minimal, we have made arrangements with the University Library in Ann Arbor to provide reference and interlibrary loan backup to our own services in those areas.
Specifically, we plan to send a large number of bound reference collection materials, plus some older print abstracts/indexes. In addition, as Google processing capacity for this shipment permits, we will send volumes in Library of Congress classifications “A” (general works), “S” (agriculture), “T” (technology), “U” and “V” (military sciences), and “Z” (bibliography). The materials we will be sending represent about 3% of the Thompson Library’s print collection. For future digitization shipments – none of which have yet been scheduled - we will have considerably more lead time and will provide you with more notice.
If in the remaining weeks of the term you are working on projects that will require access to materials from the library’s print reference collection or from the classifications above, please contact our reference service and collection management librarian, Paul Streby (pgstreby@umflint.edu), so that we can make arrangements to meet your needs.
We are delighted to participate in this project. When it is completed users will be able to search the full-text of the seven-million-plus print volumes of the three-campus University of Michigan library system. We will effectively be opening up to you books that have hitherto been all too closed.
Bob Houbeck
Director, Frances Willson Thompson Library
Posted by pgstreby at November 28, 2006 03:42 PM