{"id":2099,"date":"2007-06-24T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2007-06-24T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:08:13","slug":"new-digitization-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/new-digitization-project.html","title":{"rendered":"New Digitization Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirtastech.com\/\">Kirtas<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksurge.com\/\">BookSurge<\/a> book digitization program has arrived, digitizing books from four libraries using Kirtas&#8217; automated book scanning equipment and\u00a0 BookSurge&#8217;s\u00a0 position as an on-demand publishing subsidiary of Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2007_06_17_fosblogarchive.html#1757609993755923316\">Open Access News<\/a> has a great overview of it, including why it might be a better deal for the libraries involved than Google&#8217;s own project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kirtas&#8211;BookSurge book digitization program has arrived, digitizing books from four libraries using Kirtas&#8217; automated book scanning equipment and\u00a0 BookSurge&#8217;s\u00a0 position as an on-demand publishing subsidiary of Amazon.com. Open Access News has a great overview of it, including why it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/new-digitization-project.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2934,2943,2948,2954],"tags":[3514,3515,5350,3516],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google","category-libraries","category-news","category-open-access","tag-amazoncom","tag-automated-book-scanning-equipment","tag-google","tag-on-demand-publishing-subsidiary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}