On May 14, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

> [Please excuse the cross-postings. --ELM]
>
> The Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame is sponsoring a
> mini-symposium on the topic of mass digitization one week from today,
> Thursday, May 21 from 1 - 4:30. You are invited.
>
> The purpose of the symposium it to discuss, learn, and explore the
> possibilities and ramifications of huge amounts of digitized texts in
> libraries. Our speakers include:
>
>   * Maura Marx (Open Knowledge Commons)
>   * Gary Charbonneau (Indiana University)
>   * Sian Meikle (University of Toronto)


I have (finally) written up my notes from our mass digitization mini- 
symposium. From the Summary:

   The opportunities for librarianship and scholarship in general
   are almost boundless considering the availability of full text
   content. The opportunities are even greater when the content is
   free of licensing restrictions. While the idea of complete
   collections totally free of restrictions is a fantasy, the idea
   of significant amounts of freely available full text content is
   easily within our grasp. During the final question and answer
   period, someone asked, "What skills and resources are necessary
   to do this work?" The answer was agreed upon by the speakers,
   "What is needed? An understanding that the perfect answer is not
   necessary prior to implementation." There were general nods of
   agreement from the audience.

   http://link.library.nd.edu/vsptt

Film at 11, or more likely, sometime in July.  ;-)

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604