Scanning for the Future

In the eyes of most librarians and archivists, digitizing books is an important and timely task. Unfortunately, it is also a tedious one, as the Tri-Valley Herald points out.

The Herald stopped by the University of California's Northern Regional Library Facility and found about 12 young men and women, each wearing headphones and "sitting under black tents that keep out extraneous light," quietly scanning page upon page. Building the library of the future is not a glamorous task, says Scott Miller, the facility's operations manager: "We kind of think of it as a 21st-century Industrial Revolution type of job." --Brock Read

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