Internet Archive Book Images: Scholar digitizes huge collection of images from

by Joyce Valenza | Blogs
Aug 29, 2014 | Filed in Blogs
            Attention fans of history, historical images, book art, and archives in general: Georgetown University scholar, Yahoo fellow and developer Kalev Leetaru is currently working to create a searchable database of 12 million copyright-free images, from 600 million library book pages. The recently launched Flickr-based Internet Archive Book Images currently [...]

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