Following hot on the heels of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which joined Google’s amibitious library-digitization effort last month, the University of Virginia has signed on to the project.
Google will scan selections from Virginia’s collection of books on American history, literature, and humanities, according to campus officials. “With Google, we will be able to offer access to many more texts,” said Karin Wittenborg, the university librarian, in a statement. “For example, 18th- and 19th-century works that are rarely found can be discovered by new audiences.”
Virginia is the ninth 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 Oxford, the University of California system, and the New York Public Library have also joined the project. —Brock Read
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