Millionth Digitized Book
From ml2sig
On Feb 1 2008, we announced our millionth digitized book. We threw a thank you party for staff and created on online display to support this milestone.
- Website: [1] was viewed over 4,000 times in first 2 months
- Slide show via slideshare (linked to from above website): [2] was viewed over 1,300 times in first 2 months. Was also selected as "featured content" on the slideshare site.
- Flickr photo set: [3] each image viewed around 20-700 times in the first 2 months (some images were viewed many more times because they were linked to from blogs).
- Blog & News mentions - many blogs wrote about the milestone - below are some of the interesting responses:
...UM’s Million Web site devoted to this milestone, and it is indeed “pretty cool”...
...The MBooks Michigan Digitization Project Workflow diagram is really interesting!...
- University of Michigan celebrates millionth digitized book with incredible photo set
"...But what’s SUPER COOL is the Details of Digitization photo set. Did anyone subscribe to National Geographic World (the youth version of National Geographic magazine) when they were growing up? The back of the magazine was my favorite part, with close-up photos where you were to figure out “What in the World...?” This great photo set has beautiful closeups of broken books, conserved books, in-process books, and the equipment, tools, and supplies used in conservation..."
- Ann Arbor News article
- University of Michigan celebrates millionth digitized book with incredible photo set
