, the product of forest, mine, and field. This is the internet archives, a Public Digital Library in San Francisco, and mission is universal access to all information forever. This building formerly was the church of christ scientist. The church was an aging congregation and put it on the market. We purchased it and refitted it both as offices and workspaces for our engineers and also a space for scanning and for our servers. This is our scanning center where we convert books, microphone, and Motion Picture films to disk. In this room, people are working on scanning books, also manuscripts, microfilm, and also digitizing home movies. Yvonne is operating a state of the arts film scanner. It is taking a digital image of every frame. Later, the images get knit together into a video. She is doing highdefinition recording. Simple,ine looks quite but its quite sophisticated. She controls brightness and quality of the image. And thats about a terabyte of raw scans per day. A huge amount of da
In March 2023, the Department of Public Libraries objected to the proposal to construct non-library related amenities. The director of the public library stated that the purpose of the permission was to expand the library and construct a digital library.