Council on Library Resources
Commission on Preservation and Access
Digital Collections Inventory Report
Preliminary Results
By Patricia A. McClungFebruary 1996
Project Janus: Columbia University Law Library
An ambitious project to scan 10,000-12,000 law titles with full-text search and retrieval capabilities. Originally launched as a supercomputer project using search software from Thinking Machines Corp., plans changed mid-stream when Thinking Machines went into Chapter 11. Columbia temporarily halted conversion (at 200,000 pages) and started the process of porting the software to Sun UNIX machines. It is not clear if the project will recover from the setback (as most of the key staff have left Columbia).
Contact: James Hoover; hoover@janus.columbia.edu, 212/854-2635
