[Web4lib] CIC and Google Partnership

[Ryan Eby]

Of interest to probably some:

"The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search
Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today's addition of
the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC).  The CIC is a
national consortium of 12 research universities, including University
of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of
Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of
Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University,
Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Google will work with the CIC to digitize select
collections across all its libraries, up to 10 million volumes.

Readers will have access to many distinctive and unique collections
held by the consortium. Users will be able to explore collections that
are global in scope, like Northwestern's Africana collection or dive
deep into the universities' unique Midwest heritage, including the
University of Minnesota's Scandinavian and forestry collections,
Michigan State's extensive holding in agriculture, Indiana
University's folklore collection, and the history and culture of
Chicago collection at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Google will provide the CIC with a digital copy of the public domain
materials digitized for this project. With these files, the consortium
will create a first-of-its-kind shared digital repository of these
works held across the CIC libraries."

http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibraryInitiatives/Archive/PressRelease/LibraryDigitization/index.shtml

Ryan Eby