[WEB4LIB] Library News from Google ... *and* UM! (fwd)

[Breakall, Scott]

The NYTimes has a story on this (Drudge tip-off) -- 

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database
By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT 

"Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search
service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's
leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting
their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over
the Web..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?ei=5006&en=5c
156d410c03b71b&ex=1103605200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=


~Scott~

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Full press release will be available on the University of Michigan and
UM Libraries homepages.

<http://www.umich.edu/>
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/>

Released Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Google/U-M project opens the way to universal access to information

ANN ARBOR, Mich. --- Google and the University of Michigan today
(Tuesday) announced a joint agreement that will add the seven million
volumes in the U-M library to the Google search engine and open the way
to universal access to information.

[snip]

U-M brings to the partnership a collection of great size and breadth and
a position as one of the nation's leaders in digital preservation.  The
U-M Library is the sixth largest in the country, and its digital
collection of roughly 22,000 volumes also is one of the most ambitious
in the country. Notable is the Making of America Collection, a
thematically-related digital library of more than 9,000 volumes that
documents American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction.
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/)  At its current rate of digital
production, however, it would take the University more than a thousand
years to digitize the seven million volumes in the collection.  Google
plans to do the job in about six years.

[snip]

For more information and examples, visit
<http://print.google.com/library/>.