18.427 Google digital libraries

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 427.
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         Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:06:48 +0000
         From: Simon Tanner <simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Google digital libraries

  From the BBC web site --

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4094271.stm

The libraries of five of the world's most important academic institutions
are to be digitised by Google. Scanned pages from books in the public
domain will then be made available for search and reading online.

The full libraries of Michigan and Stanford universities as well smaller
collections at Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library are included.
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