[WEB4LIB] Google digitization and scanning resolution?

[Mark Gooch]

I received this from a librarian at the Univ. of Mich.:

..here is the quote from John Wilkin, our associate director:

	"Google is required to produce 600dpi bitonal TIFF images (ITU G4
format) for Michigan from its capture processes, and those images should
retain all significant information on the page.  Our evaluation of their
work to date has found them to be successful in these regards."


Thanks
Mark

Sloan, Bernie wrote:

>Earlier this week I alerted people to an American Libraries article
>about Google's digitization project.
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>There was a remark attributed to Ann Wolpert, MIT's library director,
>which raised an issue I hadn't seen mentioned before. Speaking of the
>scanning project, Wolpert said "The scanning resolution is reportedly
>quite low..."
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>Has anyone seen this mentioned anywhere else?
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
>University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
>616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
>Champaign, IL  61820
>
>Phone: (217) 333-4895
>Fax:   (217) 265-0454
>E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
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Mark D. Gooch
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