Call for help: Million Book Project needs more books to scan

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Michael Lesk tells me that the Million Book Project is running out of books to scan. They are looking for libraries that are willing to lend large numbers of books that can be legally scanned (tens of thousands preferred.)

This might be...
a) A library doing large-scale weeding of old books
b) A library closing down a branch facility
c) A library renovating a building with a plan to put books in storage for a year.
and if you happen to know of this
d) A large used book store going out of business (but with old enough books to be useful -- piles of Stephen King novels from the 1980s are not helpful)

Comments

[Mary Minow]

I got the request from Michael Lesk - his contact info is here:
http://lesk.com/mlesk/

[marlene]

Is the project restricted to books, or are journals also taken into account ? I know a library wishing to digitize a french law journal from the beginning (ca 1600) - Who should I contact for this ?

Thanx for the tip