JANUS Project-Digital Collections Inventory--Appendix II

Council on Library Resources
Commission on Preservation and Access

Digital Collections Inventory Report

Appendix I

ALA Survey of Imaging Projects

By Patricia A. McClung
February 1996

15. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL--JANUS PROJECT

DESC: Project to convert 10,000-12,000 law titles to digital images with full-text search and retrieval capabilities using a supercomputer and advanced search software from Thinking Machines Corp.

CONTACT: Columbia Law School Library, Jerome Grcene Hall, Box A-6, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, Telephone: 212-854-2645

REFS: (1) Reid, C. "Columbia Experiment will put Library Collection Online." Publishers Weekly, 240 (February 22, 1993): 13. (2) "Virtual Library Created at Columbia Law." Wilson Library Bulletin, 67 (March 1993): 12.

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