Thursday, January 6, 2011

BYU Lee Library Scans Millionth Page

The Harold B. Lee Library began scanning books for the Internet Archive on June 22nd, 2009, and recently reached the mark of one million pages scanned.  The millionth page was from Volume 2 of Traite pratique d’artillerie navale et tactique des combats de mer, by Lewal, M. L; Bertrand, Arthus, published in 1863 in Paris by the Librairie Maritime et Scientifique.  This work is the 3,014th book scanned for the Internet Archive program.

You can see all of BYU’s books in the Internet Archive at:
http://www.archive.org/details/brigham_young_university

For more details about the Internet Archive book scanning project see:
http://www.archive.org/details/texts