Princeton University has signed on to Google’s ever-expanding book-scanning project, joining a growing list of college libraries that have agreed to let the search engine digitize volumes from their collections.
Over the next six years, Google will make about 1-million books from Princeton’s libraries available online, according to a news release, and the university and the company will soon start to choose which titles make the cut.
Princeton is the 12th institution to participate in Google’s digitization campaign. The Complutense University of Madrid, Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Universities of Oxford and Virginia, the University of California system, the New York Public Library, and the National Library of Catalonia have also joined the project. —Brock Read
