Google to scan universities&#39; library books
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By Paul Taylor in New York and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world literature.
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Eleven Midwestern university libraries have agreed to work with Google Inc. to create digital versions of up to 10 million books in their collections.
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Blog: Google adds 12 Midwest university libraries to controversial book scanning project.
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Web search leader Google Inc.  said late on Monday it is working on a project to digitally  scan the collections at seven libraries and will make the pages  available to Google users over the coming years.
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SEARCH ENGINE megagiant Google is to digitise a substantial number of volumes held in the libraries of Harvard and Oxford Universities.
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As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google has 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
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Google reached agreements with several major research libraries to digitize the content of thousands of books in their archives, adding momentum to the search giant&#39;s effort to catalog vast amounts of offline information in addition to Web pages, the
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Harvard is one of a handful of institutions in a joint venture with Google that could be the biggest development to hit the library since the card catalog went digital.
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Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries.
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Google is launching a new service to make books and other printed materials searchable online, the Internet search engine company said Wednesday.
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Google Inc. said on Tuesday it would digitize some of the world&#39;s most important libraries in a bold effort that could profit the company by attracting more viewers to its site -- and its ads.
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Google is planning to announce an agreement Tuesday with some of the nation&#39;s top libraries and Oxford University to start converting their holdings into digital files.
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The participating libraries include those at the University of Michigan, Google co-founder Larry Page&#39;s alma mater; Stanford University, where Page and Google co-founder Sergey Brin met as doctoral students and dreamed up the idea of the search engine
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A global virtual library is one step nearer today after Google, the internet search group, announced it is working on a project to digitally scan the collections at seven libraries and make them available online.
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Book collections from five of the world&#39;s top libraries are to be made available on the internet by Google. The Oxford University library, the New York Public Library and three big US university libraries
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[World News]: London, Dec 15 : Rare and contemporary works from the libraries of five of the world&#39;s most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google and made available online.
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Soon anyone will be able to browse the University library, whether he is in Ann Arbor or Europe or anywhere in between. The University announced a partnership with Google