Nonprofit Digitization Project Attracts N.C. Universities

Three campus libraries in the Triangle Research Libraries Network, in North Carolina, announced last week that they are contributing some of their public-domain books to the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit book-digitization project. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University will help pay for a scanning machine and will contribute thousands of books in the project’s first year. Duke University also will contribute some of its holdings to the project.—Andrea L. Foster