The Universal Digital Library

The Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection

         The Million Book Project (or the Universal Library), is a book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. Working with government and research partners in India (Digital Library of India) and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web. As of 2007, they have completed the scanning of 1 million books and have made accessible the entire database from http://www.ulib.org

People
Carnegie Mellon University

• Dr. Raj Reddy, Founder and Director of the Universal Digital Library (UDL)
• Dr. Michael Shamos, Director of UDL, Intellectual Property
• Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Director of UDL, Language Technologies
• Dr. Gloriana St. Clair, Director of UDL, University Librarian, Content Selection
• Ram Konduru, Director of UDL, New Initiatives and Operations
• Dr. Erika Linke, CMU
• Gabrielle V. Michalek, CMU
• Ed Walter, CMU
• Lavanya Prahallad (Nilu), CMU
• Vamshi Ambati, CMU

People from India

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Founding Sponsor. Former President of India

Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Chairman, Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science

Dr. M D Tiwari, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

Mr. K.V. Ramanachary, Executive Officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams

Mr. Nadendla Manohar, MLA, Chairman, A.P Assembly Library Committee

Mr. Subramanyam Bhuman, TTD UDL

Dr. C V Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad UDL

CDAC, Noida

Dr. A. B. Saha, CDAC, Calcutta

Kiran Kumar Vemuru, Director Planning, UDL India

Mr. Sridharan, Secretary, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College Of Engineering

Dr. Thangaraj, Principal, Arulmigu Kalasalingam College Of Engineering

Dr. Vaidhyasubramanian, Dean, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy

Asma Mannan,E.Veera Raghavendra ,Rakesh Devineni,Jaya Krishna, MSIT-IIIT, Hyderabad