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The Universal Library
This project is no longer active.

Head: Robert H. Thibadeau
Contact: Robert H. Thibadeau (rht@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see this project's homepage.

Project Description

The Universal Library Project seeks to facilitate the transport of all authored works to the Internet and to find ways to provide free or nearly free access to these works by anyone in the world.

A recent Universal Library project is to have every Church in North America, and later the world, put up their weekly church bulletins on the web. This requires seeking methods of enhancing bulletin information value by marking up the bulletins for useful search. We have over 100,000 churches with editors now, and this about 1/3 of the way.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Raj Reddy	Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor, RI/CS/ISRI	rr@cmu.edu
	Robert H. Thibadeau	Adjunct Faculty, MLD	rht@cs.cmu.edu

Past Sub-projects

Scanserver - We are developing Scanserver to provide classroom material on the web.	The Historical New York Times Project - We are providing people with a glimpse into actual historical events as they were seen by the people of the day.
The Knowledge Conservancy - The Knowledge Conservancy is a non-profit organization established to communicate and carry out the vision of the universal library.