Just in time to be the perfect Christmas stocking stuffer, the first print-on-demand books from McMaster University Library’s mass digitization program became available on Monday!

Book lovers can choose between an illustrated first-edition of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol or a first edition of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine signed by the author. You can read the official press release here.

This is the beginning of a joint venture between the Library and Titles, the campus bookstore, which recently purchased an Espresso Book Machine. In the new year we’ll be sending files for all of the books digitized from our collection to Titles along with our other print-on-demand partners. Proceeds will benefit both library and student services at McMaster, and having a print-on-demand partner on campus means local customers can get their books very quickly.

Titles also has an online sales site, so if you’d like copies of our books but can’t make it to the Bookstore, look for them here. A title search will pull each of them up (look for the “replica edition”).

Happy Holidays!