Google Books Library grows despite controversy

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Google said that another US university will add its books to the Internet search titan's controversial project to make the world's written works available online. The library books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society will be digitized and added to the virtual shelves of the Google Books Library Project, according to the arrangement.

The combined total of approximately 7.2 million works in the two libraries were billed as one of the largest collections of historical documents in the United States. "Wisconsin is in a position to take a leading role in making the primary documents of US government history freely accessible on the Internet for anyone to find and use," university provost Patrick Farrell said in a...