MillionBook Booklet

General Info

Million Book

Digital Library Project

Defined

The Million Book Project is a project the was undertaken
by the CIS Department at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in association with partners in
China and India to collect and digitize one million books to
make them freely available to the world.

General Info

In 2001 Dr. Raj Reddy a Computer Information Science
Professor and Dr. Gloriana StClair a Librarian from the
Carnegie Mellon University began a partnership to create
an online library resource available to everyone. Their
initial goal was to create an online library that with optical
character recognition of one million books that have gone
out of copyright. Within six years they had achieved their
original goal and found the need to widen their scope.

Today

Today the Million Book Project can claim a collection
of one point six million books including books in public
domain and permitted copywritten works. With funding
and advisement by the National Science Foundation and
partnerships with Schools in India and China the new
goal of the Million Book Project is to digitize and provide
OCR capability for all books.

Resources

The majority of manpower in this endeavor is provided
by the partnerships with India and China, who are
donating a profound number of man hours to this
project. Additionally, funding from the National Science
Foundation provides for the technical needs of the
project. The books digitized are primarily sourced from
donations.

Citations

The Million Book Project
“Https://Themillionbookproject.com/about/.” The Million Book
Project Homepage, 2019, themillionbookproject.com/about/.

Technical Paper about The Million Book Digital Library Project
Reddy, Raj, and Gloriana StClair. The Million Book Digital
Library Project. 1 Dec. 2001, www.rr.cs.cmu.edu/mbdl.htm.

The Universal Digital Library
“Universal Digital Library About Us.” ULIB, Carnegie
Mellon University, 2008, ulib.isri.cmu.edu/ULIBAboutUs.
htm#visionBkMark.

Images provided by Pixels.Com & CMU.edu

For Further Info

“Carnegie Mellon University News Archive.” CMU,
2007, www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/November/
nov27_ulib.shtml.

Dobler, Emily. “Dean of Libraries’ Final Chap-
ter at CMU.” The Tartan, 30 Apr. 2012, thetartan.
org/2012/4/30/news/staffprofile.

Created by

Aaryn Morris