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0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June, 2007
Byline: Tara Malone and Kiran Sood tmalone@@dailyherald.com ksood@@dailyherald.com Angling to reach students where they increasingly are - online - a dozen universities Wednesday unveiled plans to digitize up to 10 million library books. Billed as one of the most ambitious undertakings of its kind, the partnership both preserves historic manuscripts, maps and collections while putting them a click away from more people than ever before.
The agreement - which includes Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago - comes as part of Google Inc.' s book-scanning project. Experts call it the next stage in the information evolution. "We've got an investment in thousands of books in each of our libraries that, in some...
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