How will it benefit Harvard students and faculty?
Currently, Harvard’s library books are distributed across some 80 library locations. Once a Harvard library book is scanned and processed, students and faculty will be able to use keyword searching as a powerful new tool for finding the book, and then will be able to browse the book, its table of contents, or its index from any location. Given that Harvard now stores 5 million volumes off site, increasing the number of books that can be browsed without physical retrieval will increase access to the collection by the Harvard community.
