The University of Michigan has reached the 1 million book milestonetemp in its digitization program. That figure represents around 13% of the 7.5 million books in the library’s collections. The books are available via the library’s catalog or via Google Book Search, as part of the Michigan Digitization Project.
Most of the scanning has been done as part of the library’s controversial deal with Google. The search giant is working with dozens of major libraries around the world to scan the full text of books to add to its index. But Michigan is one of the only institutions to agree to scan every one of its holdings — even those that are still covered by copyright. Some publishers have sued Google for copyright infringement over the scanning effort, though officials from Google say their effort is legal because they are not making the full text of copyrighted books available to the public.
The Wired Campus News Blog, Feb. 4, 2008
and Open Access News, Feb. 4, 2008
