October 24, 2008
In Case Google Bails Out on Its Library Project, Universities Create a Backup
A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has scanned in its partnership with university libraries.
One of the most important functions of the project, say its leaders, who unveiled the giant library last week, is to create a stable backup of the digital books should Google go bankrupt or lose interest in the book-searching
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