[OPLINLIST] GOOGLE Creating a Digital Library

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:50:27 -0500

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Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database (Google, the operator of
the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an
agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and
Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that
would be freely searchable over the Web. Google - newly wealthy from its
stock offering last summer - has agreed to underwrite the projects being
announced today while also adding its own technical abilities to the task of
scanning and digitizing tens of thousands of pages a day at each library.
Although Google executives declined to comment on its technology or the cost
of the undertaking, others involved estimate the figure at $10 for each of
the more than 15 million books and other documents covered in the
agreements. Librarians involved predict the project could take at least a
decade.)

New York Times. Dec. 14, 2004
http://nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?hp
<http://nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?hp&ex=1103000400&en=
90f0998cafc80502&ei=5094&partner=homepage>
&ex=1103000400&en=90f0998cafc80502&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Jimmie Epling, Regional Librarian

FIVCO/Big Sandy Regional Office

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

P.O. Box 370, 122 South Main Cross St. 

Louisa, KY 41230-0370

V: 606.638.4797  F:606.638.0586

jimmie.epling@ky.gov

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<p class=3DMsoPlainText><b><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
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Its
Database</span></font></b><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> (Google, the operator of the world's most popular =
Internet
search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the =
nation's
leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting =
their
holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the =
Web. Google
- newly wealthy from its stock offering last summer - has agreed to =
underwrite
the projects being announced today while also adding its own technical
abilities to the task of scanning and digitizing tens of thousands of =
pages a
day at each library. Although Google executives declined to comment on =
its
technology or the cost of the undertaking, others involved estimate the =
figure
at $10 for each of the more than 15 million books and other documents =
covered
in the agreements. Librarians involved predict the project could take =
at least
a decade.)</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoPlainText><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
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<p class=3DMsoPlainText><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
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<p class=3DMsoPlainText><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
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<p class=3DMsoPlainText><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kentucky Department for Libraries and =
Archives</span></font></p>

P.O. Box 370, =
122 South
 Main Cross St.

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<p class=3DMsoPlainText><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
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