Google and the University of Illinois

Photo of the front doors of the main library on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is from the University's web site at http://www.uiuc.edu/

My Fall 2007 Friendscript Newsletter for Friends of the University of Illinois Library had an article that it, and other members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), are working with Google to scan up to 10 million volumes that will then be available to the public. WOW!!! The CIC is a consortium of 12 academic research libraries in the Midwest, including the U of I. The Google Book Search Project will enable massive quantities of books to be searched and in many cases, read online. Descriptions of copyrighted material will be available, including how to buy or borrow the book. Public-domain material will be available to view and download. Information, including FAQ, is at www.cic.uiuc.edu/ or you can check out the Book Search Project at http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html The web site for the University of Illinois Library is http://www.library.uiuc.edu/