Yet another major college library has paired off with a commercial book-scanning project: Yale University announced yesterday that it would post portions of its collection online through Live Search Books, Microsoft’s digital library.
Yale will start by scanning 100,000 of its English-language books that are out of copyright, according to a news statement.
Microsoft is sparring with two other groups in what has become a crowded book-scanning marketplace. Google’s much-publicized digitization project continues to add libraries to its roster, and the Open Content Alliance — which scans books and allows them to be indexed by any search engine — recently reached a deal to digitize volumes from the Boston Library Consortium. —Brock Read
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