As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, the University of New Hampshire Library is participating in the Internet Archive’s Open Content Alliance (OCA) book digitization project by contributing public domain materials from its collection.

Since scanning began in January, the Library has contributed more than 126,454 pages to the OCA Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library. This represents 711 items with an average page count of 178 per item, including the Granite Monthly magazine, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins, the Manual for the General Court (the “red books”), and selected New Hampshire local history monographs.

For a brief description of the OCA project, selection criteria, and links to books we’ve already scanned, visit the Digital Collections page on the Library Website and select Open Content Alliance from the right side menu: http://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/.