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Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price	Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint	CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.
Information Today June 18, 2007 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors.
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary	Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid	Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.
Information Today June 26, 2008 Barbara Quint	1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program.
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois	Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al.	Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson	Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.
Information Today October 23, 2008 Beth Ashmore	HathiTrust: A Digital Repository for Libraries, by Libraries Long-term preservation is something libraries need, and it has been one of the concerns about Google as a digitization partner. These resources need to be, in the long term, managed by libraries.
Information Today December 2005 Dick Kaser	War and Peace What will Google's project yield if the pending legal actions halt the digitization of anything other than books in the public domain?
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.
Information Today November 3, 2008 Barbara Quint	The Google Book Search Settlement: `The Devil's in the Details' For the last 3 years, the Google Book Search Library Project has operated under the shadow of lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and several members in a class action suit and by the Association of American Publishers.
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright.
Information Today April 7, 2011 Barbara Quint	HathiTrust Discovers Serials Solutions' Summon and Vice Versa Sometime this summer, Summon will begin offering full-text access through its discovery service with content matched to individual library holdings.
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse	Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories.
InternetNews October 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Extends Print Further into Europe Google expanded its Google Print service, launching book-specific search services in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain.
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint	OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.
Information Today November 21, 2005 Barbara Quint	Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments.
Information Today December 18, 2008 Barbara Quint	"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines.
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners.
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement.
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Print Goes Live Google opened the door to its online library with the launch of Print.Google.Com, a book-specific search page.
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects.
Information Today October 9, 2006 Susanne Bjorner	Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program.
Searcher March 2007 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged.
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake	University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Pens New Search Chapter Google unveiled an ambitious plan to bring information locked away in print form in libraries into its searchable index.
Searcher April 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Great Equalizer Chatter about Google's library digitization project continues to fill the electronic conversations and trade press of librarians.
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Tim Beyers	Another Google Gaffe? Google has a big mission in organizing the world's information, and it takes more than good technology to do that. Till the company proves it understands this, it doesn't deserve your hard-earned investing dollars.
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google.
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint	Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort.
Information Today November 4, 2010	University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.