(courtesy of GMRList)

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, announced an agreement with Google todigitize distinctive collections across all its libraries as part of the Google Book Search project.

The Universities added to the project are:
University of Chicago
Indiana University
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
Michigan State University
University of Minnesota
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Google will scan and make searchable up to 10 million volumes from CIC libraries. Public domain materials can be viewed, searched and downloaded in their entirety. Books under copyright protection will provide basic information and a snippet of textsurrounding the search term. Users seeking further information will be directed to avenues for purchase or library access.