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Wednesday, December 15, 2004  

Google Checks Out Library Books
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html

The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library Join with Google to Digitally Scan Library Books and Make Them Searchable Online. As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google Inc. announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google. "Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products. "Today we're pleased to announce this program to digitize the collections of these amazing libraries so that every Google user can search them instantly. "Our work with libraries further enhances the existing Google Print program, which enables users to find matches within the full text of books, while publishers and authors monetize that information," Page added. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and we're excited to be working with libraries to help make this mission a reality."

Here are the news pages/press releases from each of the institutions involved. More information on how they are individually handling copyright included in some of them.

http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/library/index
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/google-0112.html
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/041214a.shtml
http://www.nypl.org/press/google.cfm
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html
http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html

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