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Subject: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU -from another List
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:09:12 EST

Below is an announcement from another List. I don't know anything more
about it.
Gloria
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Subject: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!!
>
>
>> A dream coming true. The Family History Library is starting to
> digitize
>> their book holdings, mostly family histories to date, and they
> are putting them
>> on-line, fully search able by any word or advanced search
> combinations.
>> Five thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young
> University
>> Library servers and readily accessible, NOW!
>> Here is a partial clip of an announcement I just received and
> I have only
>> made a quick check of how to find them and how to search, but
> it is very
>> exciting
>> "The LDS Family History Library has announced that it has
> begun the process
>> of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of the
> Family History
>> books in their collection. These are primarily books in the
> "929.273Series"
>> that are currently housed on the first floor of the Family
> History Library
>> (previously housed on the fourth floor of the Joseph Smith
> Memorial Building).
>> At the present time (September 2005), about 5000 books have
> been digitized
>> and are available, and they have announced that they are
> adding about 100
>> titles a week to the on-line collection. Copyright issues are
> playing a role in
>> determining the order in which they progress through this
> task; books out of
>> copyright are being done first."
>> Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU
>> at http://www.lib.byu.edu/ , then on the home page, follow the
> links:Find Other Materials;
>> Electronic; On Line Collections at BYU; Text Collections tab;
> Family History Archive
>> from the list of collections that are displayed. The search box
> on the left
>> seems to be he one to find your books at and the search box on
> the right is
>> for searching within the pages on screen.

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