Spill-Over Saturdays

Spill-Over Saturday is a new feature for you and us. Posts will include such things as:

• Updates on articles that were posted earlier
• Additional information and copy that was left over from the prior week(s)
• Articles dealing with important information that doesn’t fit into the other days’ categories
• Answering questions you send to us that would be of benefit to others
• And lastly, well, let’s just have this one be a surprise – kinda like a grab bag of topics!

Here’s an update on a story Tinu posted. ENJOY!

The Google effort to digitize Universiy of Michigan’s library has hit its stride – scanning 30,000 volumes in a recent week, and is beginning to make a serious dent in the school’s total of 7 million books.

At the current pace, the project should wrap up in the next five years, said associate university librarian John Price Wilkin.

That’s amazing to Wilkin, who also leads the university’s own digitization project that began before the school partnered with Google. The in-house project scans about 5,000 volumes a year. At that pace, scanning the enite library would take 1,400 years.

Okay, everybody, let’s sing the U of M’s Fight Song!

“Hail to the conquering heros, Hail to the victors valiant, Hail, hail, Michigan, the leaders of the West…..”

(The reason they were called the leaders of the west is that UofM was established in 1817 – so the West wasn’t the west that we know today.)
Morgan