Bavarian State Library Joins Google Book Search

-- Library Journal, 3/9/2007

Google has announced it would add a 13th library to its library scan plan. Under the deal with the Bavarian State Library (Munich), Google will scan more than a million public-domain books, including works by the Brothers Grimm, Goethe, and Schiller. The Bavarian State Library will offer Google a wealth of foreign language books; in addition to German-language books, the Bavarian State Library also holds and will digitize out-of-copyright works in French, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and English. It is the fourth European library to sign up with Google; the others are Oxford University, University Complutense of Madrid, and the National Library of Catalonia. Google says it now offers content from over 10,000 publishers, numbering over a million books in nine languages through its book search database.