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I came across a fascinating article in Monday’s Toronto Star. “Archivists embrace digital page” highlights the University of Toronto’s digitization contributions to the Internet Archive. Located on the seventh floor of Robarts Library, this local scanning operation digitizes mostly old rare books into five different formats. The scanning centre’s production numbers are impressive:

  • In less than three years, this project has digitized about 44,000 books
  • The combination of people and custom-built machines in the centre allow for the scanning of 500 book pages in one hour
  • More than 1,000 books are scanned a week

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