U. of California libraries join Google’s book scanning project
August 14, 2006University of California and Google announced plans for the university to join Google’s massive book scanning project. The deal tocovers all the libraries in UC’s 10-campus system, making this the biggest expansion of Google’s effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since a group of authors and publishers sued Google last fall in an effort to halt the project.
“We think this is a pretty significant step forward,” said Adam Smith, the group product manager overseeing Google’s book-scanning initiative.
Read more about the Google digital book project by clicking onto this link.
