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OCLC BEGINS ELECTRONIC ARCHIVING PILOT PROJECT

DUBLIN, Ohio, Jan. 27, 1997--Eleven institutions have agreed to collaborate
with OCLC in a pilot project to test electronic archiving technology.  The
working prototype will provide input from users, allowing the study of usag=
e
patterns and issues related to electronic archiving.

Information for the Electronic Archiving Pilot Project will include:
=95 The Irish American Advocate from UGO Productions:  10,000 pages of
newspapers dating back to the early 1900s

=95 1,000 photographs from the Grand Rapids Public Library*s Robinson
Collection of All- American Girls Professional Baseball League

=95 50,000 pages from the New York Public Library*s Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture

=95 Shakespearean costume and set designs from the Motley Collection of
Theatre and Costume Design, and maps of Illinois and the Northwest Territor=
y
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with
the Follett Corporation

=95 Regimental histories from Knox College and The Museum of The Confederac=
y*s
CPA Virtual Civil War Library

=95 Images from the Library of Congress* Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civi=
l
War photographs

=95 Two 19th century journals on technology and railroads from the Universi=
ty
of Chicago

=95 A monographic set of the writing and speeches of Edmund Burke from
Northwestern University

=95 A collection provided by the U.S. Government Printing Office to explore
issues relating to permanent public access to government information via th=
e
Federal Depository Library Program

"With current technologies, a collection of rare photographs or journals
that once was available only in a single library through tightly controlled
physical access can now be made accessible around the clock and around the
world," said John A. Hearty, director, Business Development, OCLC.  "By
using low-cost, low-space-intensive storage along with inexpensive
telecommunications channels, including the Internet and widely available
nonproprietary software such as World Wide Web browsers, vast amounts of
information now can be placed at the fingertips of an unlimited number of
users," Mr. Hearty said.

For OCLC*s Electronic Archiving Pilot Project, information is digitized
"from a variety of original media formats, including photographs,
newspapers, books, journals and sketches" via an electronic scanning proces=
s
that does not harm or alter the original media, which will remain the
property of the owners.  Several of the collections that will be made
available in the pilot project have been scanned and digitized by
Preservation Resources, an OCLC division located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania=
,
and a partner in the project.

Once digitized, the information is indexed for storage in robotic automated
cartridge systems that each can handle over 2.9 terabytes of information
(400 million typed pages).  The storage systems are housed at OCLC*s Dublin=
,
Ohio, headquarters.
In late 1997, pilot project materials will be accessible through the OCLC
FirstSearch service, which is installed at over 6,000 libraries worldwide.

"Electronic archiving holds great promise for both libraries and publishers
as a means of offering broad access to information, particularly rare
materials; preserving information in a way that supplements traditional, ye=
t
cumbersome, formats such as microfilm; and reducing the space and financial
resources required to store information," said Mr. Hearty.

"We at OCLC, as well as the content providers who have embarked on this
endeavor with us, are very excited about what this pilot project means for
the future of information access," he said.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library service
and research organization whose computer network and services link more tha=
n
23,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories.  More information is
available at the OCLC Web site
[http://www.oclc.org/].                                (JT/ND/GP)

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