Library Tech Confidential

Archivists embrace digital page - “In a darkened and anonymous corner of the 7th floor of the University of Toronto’s main library, the books of the future are being created 14 hours a day…The ’scribes’ here are a combination of people and custom-built machines that can each scan up to 500 book pages in an hour. Multiply that by 13 such set-ups and two seven-hour shifts every weekday and you can see how the scanning centre manages to copy more than 1,000 books a week.” [Toronto Star]