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The U of T library has been purging their collections of old archived journals - possibly onlining them as well. They also toss out 3-4 cubic meters of all sort
by aurizon 5y ago
The U of T library has been purging their collections of old archived journals - possibly onlining them as well. They also toss out 3-4 cubic meters of all sorts of books/ They put them in the University swap shop at 10 cents each in large cubic meter bins of wheels. about a dozen bins. New bins enter full and the book buyers burrow and more. and by the time the bins reach the end in about 2 weeks, the rest are pulped. The University gets donated books as well as their own aging collection. If a book is not used for XX years, I suspect they allow people at them and then pulp them.
I looked at some fresh bins - nothing at all I wanted even if free.
Covid has reduced access, I have not been there for over a year, but I hear it is open again - if I have a mind to browse...
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIs there any chance you could put the U of T folks in touch with the Internet Archive? They would likely accept artifacts of value for digitization. https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-do-I-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-Internet-Archive- https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...
- aurizon 5y agoI will mention the idea then next time I visit the swap shop - maybe in January 2022 and see if it gets any traction. One problem is one meter box will be 1000-1300 pounds, and the university will probably not want to ship cross border to the USA at University expense/ There are a numbre of people doing this now, some actually shear the binding off and send the book through a high speed double sided page scanner. Some also use OCR software to create a text file. There are some youtubes on it. I do not know how they correct typos or missed pages. A spell checker will catch a good proportion, I am sure there are a number of book scanner fail modes. The solution = hand correction = the problem,