The Chronicle: U. of California Is in Talks to Join Google’s Library-Scanning Project
The University of California is negotiating with Google to join the search-engine giant’s book-digitization project. If the company and the university system agree to a deal — which, sources within the university say, could happen soon — Google might have access to as many as 34 million books within the system.
Details about the negotiations and the potential agreement, including who might pay for the digitization project, are scant. The university system’s Board of Regents heard a presentation, “Large-Scale Digitization of UC Library Holdings: An Historic Opportunity,” at a meeting in late July, but the minutes of that meeting are not yet available.
Daniel Greenstein, director of the system’s California Digital Library, would not offer specifics of the negotiations, other than to say, “The deal is not done.”
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