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Friday, December 24, 2004

Link to an article on Google's Library Digitization Initiative

Category: Professional

An article in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Google's Library Digitization initiative.


The logistics involved are staggering.

Stanford has 8 million volumes, Michigan 7 million. Oxford, Harvard and the New York Public Library initially will participate only with a limited part of their collections.