Google and the University of Michigan Library Digitization Project

If you're interested in what people are saying at conferences about Google Print, then you'll want to read this post in the LITA blog entitled Google and the University of Michigan Library Digitization Project. dshapiro captures some great information including:

The shockingly high number is that 80% of the books in the Google 5 libraries are still in copyright, so even though the full text will be digitized, only the snippets will be available. Although it is probably more productive if we stop thinking of the visible part of in-copyright books as snippets, and start thinking of them as indexing - a point brought up by danah boyd in her keynote...

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