Bavarian State Library Joins Google
By Andrew Albanese -- Library Journal, 4/15/2007
Google has announced it would add a 13th library to its library scan plan. Under the deal with the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Google will scan more than one million public-domain books, including works by the Brothers Grimm, Goethe, and Friedrich Schiller. The Bavarian State Library will offer Google a wealth of foreign-language books; in addition to German-language editions, 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 with Google; the others are Oxford University, University Complutense of Madrid, and 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.
