October 27, 2006

U. of Wisconsin Joins Google Library Project

By SCOTT CARLSON

Google has added yet another university to its digital-library project. The new member is the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which will contribute historical documents for digitization.

All of the Wisconsin material is in the public domain. "It's prudent for us," says Edward Van Gemert, acting director of libraries at the university, because "there is still a fair amount of controversy" surrounding the book project. Google has been hit by lawsuits from publishers and other

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