[LINK] Google to digitise 250,000 British Library books

[Tom Worthington]

On 21/06/11 16:48, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Google to digitise 250,000 British Library ...

Hopefully the British Library have updated their technology. When I 
visited, my getting a reader's card was delayed while the staff replaced 
the rubber band holding their digital camera together. ;-)

Also there was an annoying drumming noise walking between the shelves of 
books: it appeared that too thin panels had been used in the floor to 
cover the cable conduits. The computer catalog did not work and the food 
the cafe was awful.

This all made the National Library of Australia look like something from 
a later century.


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