Princeton Becomes Twelfth Library To Join Google

-- Library Journal, 2/9/2007

Google has signed another university library to participate in its library scan plan, this week announcing an agreement with the Princeton University Libraries to digitize roughly one million books. Under the agreement, Princeton will initially supply only public domain books over the "next six years," which it says will be indexed and searchable on the web and freely available for download. Princeton University Librarian Karin Trainer said joining Google Book Search will "make it easier for Princeton students and faculty to do research" and would also allow Princeton to "share our collection with researchers worldwide."

Trainer said Princeton librarians will work with Google over the next several months to choose the subject areas to be digitized and the timetable for the scanning. Library staff, faculty, and students also will be able to suggest titles for inclusion. Princeton is the twelfth institution to join the Google Books Library Project, joining Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, the University of California, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the New York Public Library, the University Complutense of Madrid, and the National Library of Catalonia.