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Fw: Oxford books and Google

From: <1001~at~atlanticbb.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:33:24 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Rather a mealy mouthed reply and not answering the question.

nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Williams" <michael.williams~at~ouls.ox.ac.uk>
To: <nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:26 AM
Subject: Oxford books and Google


Dear Mr Wolcott,

Your message enquiring about the French books that the Bodleian has
digitized as part of its project with Google has been passed to me which
I will endeavour to answer.

You're quite right that we have so far digitized very many French (and
other foreign language) books. Most of these have come from the
Taylorian Institute, not the Bodleian; our partnership with Google
covers all OULS libraries. Many of the books we have scanned are now
available through Google's BookSearch interface and more are appearing
as work on preparing metadata from our catalogue continues. This is a
significant undertaking which is done by the small Bibliographic
Evaluation Team.

Presently Oxford is putting in place the infrastructure to host our own
copies of the images that will integrate with the OLIS catalogue so one
day you will be able to view every book we have digitized through a
local interface.

I hope this answers your questions.

Best wishes,

-- 
Michael
Michael A. Williams
Bibliographic Evaluation Team Manager
Oxford University Library Services

Received on Thu 21 Aug 2008 - 20:34:44 IDT

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