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| Fall 2007 | Volume 15 Number 2 |
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Rare Materials Available through Digital Partnership |
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| Fall 2007 | Volume 15 Number 2 |
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Rare Materials Available through Digital Partnership |
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The University of Maine has reached an agreement with BookSurge
International to make available out-of-print books in Fogler Library
through Amazon.com’s print-on-demand services. This partnership will
allow Fogler Library to achieve partial cost recovery of its efforts to
digitize books, the products of which will be freely available to the
public for online reading through its web-site. |
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Library envisions using this technology to create digital collections of
public domain publications with full-text searching and online access.
The collections now planned include: University of Maine publications,
historical Maine town reports, local Maine histories, and publications
relating to Wabanaki peoples. The library is only able digitize
materials out of copyright (published before 1923), in the public domain
(government documents) or for which the University of Maine owns the
copyright (University publications). “This project will dramatically enhance our ability to support research in history, the social sciences, the environment, genealogy, and on various public policy issues, “ explained Fogler Library Dean, Joyce Rumery. “It will also make a significant contribution towards our goal of making our holdings available to all Maine residents, since researchers will no longer have to come to Orono to use them.” |
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