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Monday, 10th May 2010

Twin Cities Newspaper on Google Book Digitzation at U. of Minnesota, University Recently Sent First Truckload of Books to Google

From the Article:

A million University of Minnesota books will be digitally copied by Google under a plan to put the world's libraries online. But most of the book copies are being locked in an archive, the digital equivalent of gathering dust.

No one will be able to read these digital books -- at least for now -- because of a five-year-old copyright lawsuit against Google. Five million books at the University of Michigan are threatened with the same fate.

This is also the case for all books that are copyrighted and have been digitized. It's not unique of U. of Minnesota materials.

We're talking about rights being held by an author's great grandchildren," said Wendy Lougee, the head librarian at the University of Minnesota, which recently sent its first truckload of books to be digitized by Google.

[Snip]

Lougee estimated that 700,000 of the 1 million University of Minnesota books that Google intends to digitize will be inaccessible, held hostage by the Google lawsuit

A couple of interesting reader comments at the conclusion of this the article.

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Source: Star-Tribune

See Also: U. of Minnesota Belongs to the Google Book Project via the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC). The announcement that CIC was joining Google Book Search came in June, 2007. (via Inside Google Book Search)

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