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From: "Carl Hommel" <>
Subject: LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!!
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:52:23 -0500
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LDS Digitizing Books, on-line NOW at BYU !!!Oh BOY, here we go!A dream
coming true. The Family History Library is starting to digitize their book
holdings, mostly family histories to date, and they are putting them
on-line, fully searchable by any word or advanced search combinations. Five
thousand plus of these books are on the Brigham Young University Library
servers and readily accessible, NOW! The LDS Family History Library has
announced that it has begun the process of digitizing and making available
on the Internet all of the Family History books in their collection. These
are primarily books in the "929.273 Series" that are currently housed on the
first floor of the Family History Library (previously housed on the fourth
floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building). At the present time (September
2005), about 5000 books have been digitized and are available, and they have
announced that they are adding about 100 titles a week to the on-line
collection. Copyright issues are playing a role in determining the order in
which they progress through this task; books out of copyright are being done
first. Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU,
http://www.lib.byu.edu/ then on the home page, follow the links:
Find Other Materials Electronic On Line Collections at BYU
Text Collections tabFamily History Archive from the list of collections that
are displayed. The search box on the left seems to be the one to find your
books at and the search box on the right is for searching within the pages
on screen. Carl Hommel

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