Bright lights and wires are part of a new look at the United States Library of Congress. This machine is one of several web servers that put information from the Library of Congress on the Internet. JANE MANDELBAUM: All the data on our Web site is here. Jane Mandelbaum is responsible for information technology services at the Library of Congress. For years, the library has been called the worlds largest library. That is because of its many books and documents. Officials estimate the Library of Congress has more than one hundred twenty million books and thirty-six thousand movies. It also has a large collection of music sheets and recordings, documents and pictures. Yet only one percent of all this has been digitally reproduced. Thomas Youkel says the library makes electronic copies of four to six million objects a year. A lot of those images and sounds are put on its Web site. The library is making digital versions of its collection mainly for safety reasons. Officials are worried about books and documents breaking down. Making digital reproductions is a long and costly process. This is a document from the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The Library of Congress has sixty-five million documents. The librarys James Hutson says the creative process of documents is getting lost in the computer age. The library is making digital versions of more than five million maps. Some, like this map of Africa, were painted on cloth more than a century ago. Books require a different ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Digitizing the World's Biggest Library
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Bright lights and wires are part of a new look at the United States Library of Congress. This machine is one of several web servers that put information from the Library of Congress on the Internet. JANE MANDELBAUM: All the data on our Web site is here. Jane Mandelbaum is responsible for information technology services at the Library of Congress. For years, the library has been called the worlds largest library. That is because of its many books and documents. Officials estimate the Library of Congress has more than one hundred twenty million books and thirty-six thousand movies. It also has a large collection of music sheets and recordings, documents and pictures. Yet only one percent of all this has been digitally reproduced. Thomas Youkel says the library makes electronic copies of four to six million objects a year. A lot of those images and sounds are put on its Web site. The library is making digital versions of its collection mainly for safety reasons. Officials are worried about books and documents breaking down. Making digital reproductions is a long and costly process. This is a document from the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The Library of Congress has sixty-five million documents. The librarys James Hutson says the creative process of documents is getting lost in the computer age. The library is making digital versions of more than five million maps. Some, like this map of Africa, were painted on cloth more than a century ago. Books require a different ...
Bright lights and wires are part of a new look at the United States Library of Congress. This machine is one of several web servers that put information from the Library of Congress on the Internet. JANE MANDELBAUM: All the data on our Web site is here. Jane Mandelbaum is responsible for information technology services at the Library of Congress. For years, the library has been called the worlds largest library. That is because of its many books and documents. Officials estimate the Library of Congress has more than one hundred twenty million books and thirty-six thousand movies. It also has a large collection of music sheets and recordings, documents and pictures. Yet only one percent of all this has been digitally reproduced. Thomas Youkel says the library makes electronic copies of four to six million objects a year. A lot of those images and sounds are put on its Web site. The library is making digital versions of its collection mainly for safety reasons. Officials are worried about books and documents breaking down. Making digital reproductions is a long and costly process. This is a document from the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The Library of Congress has sixty-five million documents. The librarys James Hutson says the creative process of documents is getting lost in the computer age. The library is making digital versions of more than five million maps. Some, like this map of Africa, were painted on cloth more than a century ago. Books require a different ...
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