Google’s Book Project
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Google Inc. will digitize up to 10 million books in university libraries at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, University of Illinois campuses in Chicago and Urbana-Champaign and nine other Midwestern schools as part of its Book Search project. These Midwestern libraries will significantly expand a two-year effort to digitize library books so their contents may be searched online.Adam Smith, a Google executive, said his company will pay the bulk of costs to digitize the printed works, while libraries will cover some of the lesser expenses of preparing books for scanning. Google is working on an arrangement under which searchers can download copyrighted material online after paying a fee to the publisher. Google’s six-year agreement is with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a 12-university consortium formed 50 years ago to facilitate academic collaborations among large Midwestern research universities. Besides the Illinois universities, the group includes other Big Ten schools: Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin-Madison.
