<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=578213300-24032006><FONT color=#0000ff>SCC friends</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=578213300-24032006><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=578213300-24032006><FONT color=#0000ff>The Google Stanford library likely scan of the ACM books is an interesting point.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=578213300-24032006></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=578213300-24032006><FONT color=#0000ff>Bernard</FONT> </SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> scc_active-bounces@computerhistory.org [mailto:scc_active-bounces@computerhistory.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Randall Neff<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:07 AM<BR><B>To:</B> SCC_active@computerhistory.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [SCC_Active_Members] Babbage Institute reprints versus CHM Library<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>The Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series has<BR>published 16 books thorugh MIT Press.<BR>Eight (8) are currently out of print.<BR><BR>The CHM library has four (4) of the reprints, and <BR>one (1) original book.<BR><BR>I recently purchased one of the books for my<BR>personal collection, a title not in CHM's library.<BR>The Moore School Lectures edited by Martin <BR>Campbell-Kelly and Michael R. Williams. <BR><BR>If CHM is interested in a famous computer book<BR>reprint series, this would be a great place to<BR>start, given our relationships with the Institute.<BR><BR><BR>With regard to the ACM's two lists, I suggest that<BR>we suggest to Google to do the scanning; I assume<BR>most of the books are in Stanford's libraries and<BR>Google is working with them already.<BR><BR>Randall.<BR><BR><BR></BODY></HTML>