Digitizing books from early American Beekeeping

[Mike Griggs <mhg3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now the first 20 Volumes 1861-1880 of ABJ has the distinction of 
becoming the next target for digitization at the  EF Phillips Beekeeping 
on-line collection "The Hive & The Honeybee" maintained by Cornell 
University.   http://bees.library.cornell.edu/


 Several recent gifts have started us on toward this goal   This 
digitized beekeeping library is now the largest digital on-line 
collection thanks to the foresight of EF Phillips and the generous 
contributions by beekeepers like you!

Can you imagine having access to 30 early America beekeeping volumes 
from your home computer?  And if successful you will soon be able to 
read the first 20 volumes of American Bee Journal.

Perhaps you,  your Association or Sate beekeeping organization would 
like to help by contributing to have a volume placed up on the WWW.  By 
doing the entire 20 volumes at once the estimated cost for digitizing 
all 20 would be $150/volume.  The cost goes up if we choose to do it in 
smaller, multiple groupings.

So,  If this sound interesting & you would like to help with this or 
need more information to take to other beekeepers, either contact me or 
look at  The Hive & The Honeybee site at,

http://bees.library.cornell.edu/

Mike Griggs
President Finger Lakes Beekeepers
mhg3@xxxxxxxxxxx