WhatShouldWeDoWithOurDigitizedBooks

LAUC-B: Academic Library 2.0

What Should We Do With Our Digitized Books?

Abstract

The University of California is engaged in partnerships with Google and the Open Content Alliance to digitize thousands of books from university's libraries.

• What will our patrons want to do with these digital books?

• What is even possible to do, from a functional, technical, or legal context?

• What fascinating ways can we imagine -- or not imagine -- how these books will be presented, interpreted, analyzed, remixed and understood?

• What services should our libraries build to support such scenarios?

• How do we engage our potential users now?

• How do we prototype these services?

This session will be a hands-on demonstration of the possibilities, combined with group brainstorming and discussion. Participants will learn about the functional, technical, and social/legal context of digitized books via a close and interactive study of concrete examples. Please bring your laptop if possible!

Agenda for Session

• Background Setting

• Activities

• Discussion

Open Library (demo)

Start at Open Library (Open Library). Do a search on "Tom Sawyer adventure":

http://demo.openlibrary.org/search?q=tom+sawyer+adventure

to arrive at The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Open Library). Take a look at pdf, full text, etc. the See how you can edit

(Look at it also in the Internet Archive user interface: http://www.archive.org/details/adventuresoftoms00twaiiala )

Let's edit Python Essential Reference, 3rd edition. (ISBN-10 of 0672328623) You can find a record on the book (or an earlier edition) at (Open Library):

• http://demo.openlibrary.org/b/Python_reference

• author page: http://demo.openlibrary.org/a/Beazley_David_M

You can find metadata for the book at:

• http://www.librarything.com/work/155139/details

• http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0672328623

• http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=0672328623&maximumRecords=10&recordSchema=mods

• http://www.amazon.com/Python-Essential-Reference-Developers-Library/dp/0672328623

• http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=020=0672328623

• http://melvyl.cdlib.org/X?op=present&set_no=004472&set_entry=000000001&format=marc&base=cdl90 (will expire)

• http://books.google.com/books?id=kQom0WiUbZQC&pg=PP1&dq=python+essential+reference&ei=mWUiR6H2NJ3qpwKBjdndAg&sig=iN_-G0C3Qgi9GLphK6hyMPwZj7I

What UC books have already been scanned?

See Internet Archive: University of California Libraries of OCA

Let's correlate one example in the internet archives with what's on melvyl Example: The poems of William Wye Smith (1888)found at

http://www.archive.org/details/wyesmithpoems00smitrich

What identifier to use to correlate stuff?

call number? nrlf_ucb:GLAD-17153307 MARC record for book -- fields
001 GLAD17153307-B
control number
SID b GLAD c 17153307 901 a GLAD b 17153307
http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/9xx/901-907.shtm -- locally defined
get a SYS record
016621958 http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/-/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=016621958

book available in Google
http://books.google.com/books?id=u1o1AAAAMAAJ
also in openlibrary
http://demo.openlibrary.org/b/poems_of_William_Smith http://openlibrary.org/details/poemsofwilliamwy00smituoft

Background References

• New: Future Reading by Anthony Grafton (New Yorker, Nov 5, 2007). See also Grafton's "tour" of digital resources: Adventures in Wonderland: Online Only)

• Scan This Book! - New York Times: I imagine that Kevin Kelly's essay in the NY Times covers a lot of the salient issues and provides some general background.

• A world in three aisles: browsing the post-digital library.(LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO) by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. ( Harper's Magazine 314.1884 (May 2007): p47(10). (6496 words)

• Mass Digitization of Books, by Karen Coyle (preprint of Karen Coyle's article in Journal of Academic Librarianship 32:6) (Science Direct reference)

• shimenawa - Google Book Search and University Libraries: very helpful set of podcasts from DLF Forum Spring 2007

List of Projects

• Google Books Library Project (mass digitization): Google Book Search Library Partners, Google Books Library Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Open Content Alliance (OCA): Open Content Alliance (OCA) - Home , Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Project Gutenberg: Main Page - Gutenberg

• Universal Library / Millions Books Project: Internet Archive: Million Book Project

• Amazon scans books (e.g., Getting Started in Consulting

For an example of born-digital books: see Safari. e.g., Learning JavaScript

More Links

• Coyle's InFormation: Digitization and the Catalog

• Coyle's InFormation: Ebooks in XML - The IDPF/OEB standards

• Open Source Conversations: Karen Coyle's interview is very helpful background. She identified a challenge facing the digitized book world: the various libraries having their books digitized by Google are not allowed to share digital copies with other libraries.

• University of California agreement with Google -- text of the contract.

• See related talk by Heather Christenson and Steve Toub of the CDL

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