It seems Google is making all the right headlines in the corporate world first netting of YouTube and now digitized library.
The University of Wisconsin has tied up with Google Inc. in a bid to its scan books collections amounting to 7.2 million for the Google’s initiative of making largest digitized library.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison joins the University of California and Spain’s Universidad Complutense de Madrid two other major libraries Google has announced are participating in the library book search project in the past two months.
The Google Books Library Project began last year with five participating libraries — the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library and Oxford University. Google is also conducting a pilot project with the Library of Congress.
Earlier it seemed the Google’s project had hit the road block when the association of author’s and publisher’s groups sued Google last year to block scanning of copyrighted library books, arguing that the effort might tempt consumers to stop buying printed works.
Google countered that it is creating the electronic equivalent of a library card catalog for copyrighted works and that the library project only plans to publish the full texts of out-of-copyright books in the public domain.
For copyrighted works, users can view basic background data (such as the book’s title and the author’s name) and a few lines of text related to their Web search, as well as information about where they might buy or borrow the book.
Via: CNN
