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A Milestone

On Feb. 2nd, 2008 Paul Courant, Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan, announced on his blog, Au Courant that "Today the University of Michigan Library is celebrating a significant milestone: We have just put the one millionth book digitized from our collections online."

The official page is here:

"The University of Michigan's University Library has just put the millionth book from its collection on-line. That's one million out of the 7.5 million volumes in the library's current holdings."

"What does one million mean?

One million = 361,441,145 pages
One million = 42 terabytes
One million = 750 tons
One million = 146 miles..."

Congratulations. I think that it is interesting that this is likely the first library to hit the million. I wonder which national library will be first? How many more millions by next Grondhog Day?

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).