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Google digital book project expands to other Midwest campuses
Posted 6/6/2007
MADISON, Wis. — A dozen Midwestern universities are poised to join Google’s book digitization and search project through an agreement announced today by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which includes UW-Madison.
In October 2006, UW-Madison Libraries became the eighth library system in the world to join the Google digitization project. The effort here will ultimately expand public access to hundreds of thousands of historical books and documents from campus and the Wisconsin Historical Society. The Wisconsin effort is moving along as planned, and book digitization is now occurring.
In a testament to the growing influence of the initiative, CIC announced a collective agreement today to digitize the most distinctive collections across all its libraries, up to 10 million volumes, as part of the Google Book Search Project.
The CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities including University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and UW-Madison.
The CIC agreement does not affect or supersede UW-Madison’s pre-existing agreement with Google, but will complement and extend the digitization already under way.
