Happy Anniversary, Scribe!

photo of scribe scanner

Scribe scanner in Wilson Library

December 18, 2008, marks the one-year anniversary of the Scribe digitization project in the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA).

UNC's Scribe, a high-speed scanner and associated software application developed by the Internet Archive, facilitates high-volume conversion of books to digital format. All books "scribed" at the UNC Library are freely available. (Visit the UNC Library on the Internet Archive.)

Over the past year, CDLA has digitized 2,544 books, resulting in the creation of 412,314 page images. These include early Spanish dramas, historic North Carolina business and legislative materials, and an early volume of the UNC student yearbook Yackety Yack.

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Scribe scanner arrives (Nov. 13, 2007)