Google to digitize U.Va. collections
16th Nov 2006, 08:41 GMT
The University of Virginia Library System announced yesterday that it is joining the Google Books library project, making the University's substantial collections available to students around the world. By working with Google Book Search, the University will join the likes of Harvard and Oxford in making its resources available over the Internet. "Our goal is to help to connect users to more books and to help users to discover books that they would never have known existed," Google spokesperson Megan Lamb said. "It made a lot of sense for us, and we're thrilled to be working with U.Va."
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