September 1, 2006
U. of California Will Provide Millions of Books to Google's Digitization Project
The University of California system has joined Google's controversial book-digitization project, and the partnership is expected to convert millions of books from the system's 100 libraries — even volumes that are protected by copyright — into fully searchable electronic texts.
In the near future, Google officials say, they plan to add even more academic libraries to the program, which is an ambitious effort to add digital versions of books to the company's
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