Web Project Seeks to Digitize Religious Images for Theological Libraries

July 16, 2003 11:57 AM

Web Project Seeks to Digitize Religious Images for Theological Libraries The American Theological Library Association's Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative aims to create a large database of religious images to spare research librarians the expense of digitizing documents that other institutions have already scanned
posted by turbanhead (4 comments total)

...and in other news, a Vermont man keeps his collection of bellybutton lint in labeled mason jars....
posted by dangerman at 12:16 PM on July 16, 2003

It's a good initiative. If people gather useless junk like pics of stuffed toys on vacation etc, why not use your time and efforts on a project that will endure as long as human civilization does?
posted by 111 at 1:05 PM on July 16, 2003 [1 favorite]

and you think taking pictures of stuffed toys on vacation will die off before humanity?
posted by quonsar at 6:53 PM on July 16, 2003

Go ahead - bring it on, I say. Cartoonists need the uncopyrighted material.
posted by troutfishing at 8:40 PM on July 16, 2003