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EDUCAUSE Live! June 15, 2005 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and OxfordSpecial Guests
John P. Wilkin is the associate university librarian for Library Information Technology and Technical and Access Services at the University of Michigan Library. Wilkin previously served as the head of the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan, a position he held from its inception in 1996. In 1988, he assumed responsibility for the university’s English and American language and literature collection development, as well as library research support for English faculty and graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he began work at the University of Virginia as the systems librarian for Information Services, where he shaped the library’s plan for establishing a group of electronic centers, led and provided technical support for those centers, and consulted for the university’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in textual issues. Wilkin earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia and library science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Reg Carr has been director of University Library Services & Bodley’s Librarian at Oxford University since January 1997. Previously he has held university library posts in Manchester (assistant librarian), Surrey (sublibrarian), Aston in Birmingham (deputy librarian), Cambridge (deputy librarian), and Leeds (university librarian and dean of Information Strategy). In his eight years at Oxford, Carr integrated the university’s many centrally funded libraries into a new organization, the Oxford University Library Services. He also established the Oxford Digital Library, helped extend Oxford’s legal deposit status to include electronic materials, and acquired numerous important additions to the Bodleian Library’s primary research materials. In addition, Carr supervised a major program of construction, renovation, and rationalization of library buildings and led a successful £57 million libraries capital campaign. He holds degrees from the universities of Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge, Oxford, and Leicester.Learn more >> SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by John P. Wilkin and Reginald Carr, and the topic will be "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." Late last year, Google announced agreements with five major libraries (Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, Oxford University, and Stanford University) to embark on a massive digitization project, holding out the promise of online full-text searching and expanded digital access for tens of millions of volumes. The Google project envisions a major shift not only in the way library resources are delivered to patrons but also in digital technologies and culture. Each of the five participating libraries negotiated its own terms and schedule with Google. During this session, Wilkin (University of Michigan) and Carr (Oxford University) will discuss the project’s history as well as future plans and dreams. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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