December 13, 2007
Columbia U. Joins Google Book Search
Another day, another new partner library for Google’s effort to digitize all the world’s books. Today Columbia University announced that it has signed a deal with the search giant to let Google scan large portions of its books that are no longer covered by copyright. That makes it the 28th institution to sign up.
An announcement about the deal noted that some of the subject areas that will fall under Google’s scanners are architecture, political science, sociology, environmental science, and East Asian languages and history. Columbia has posted basic facts about the project on its Web site.
A spokeswoman for Google said in an interview Thursday that the company is still in talks with other libraries around the world, and that today’s announcement is “certainly not the last.” —Jeffrey R. Young
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