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Google turns a new page in library project
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John Markoff and Edward Wyatt
International Herald Tribune
12-15-2004
Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, announced an agreement Tuesday with Oxford University and some of the leading U.S. research libraries to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.It may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global virtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research institutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library is a major ...
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