So Google and Cornell announce that 500,000 items from the the Cornell Libraries will become a part of the Google Library Project. Congrats to those involved.

However, we’ve only see a few other posts that mention that Cornell is also a part of the Open Content Alliance/Microsoft/. This was an announcement that was made last October and that we posted about on October 19, 2006.

Our post also mentions that the University of California Library System is working with both Google and the Open Content alliance. projects. First, in October 2005, this release about working with the OCA and then about a year ago, news that U of C would also be working with Google.

It would be interesting to learn which books are going to get scanned by which service and in what order. To bad that one organization can’t maximize time and scanning vs. scanning items twice.

However, we guess that’s the way it goes.

UPDATE: As we mentioned at the top of this post, the Cornell News release from earlier this week mentions that Google will be scanning 500,000 titles. The Cornell news release from
October 2006 does not give a specific number of items they plan to scan but does mention that Kirtas Technologies will do the scanning.

See Also: This RS post also includes a lists of several other book scanning projects including the awesome International Children’s Digital Library.

See Also: The Abraham Lincoln Library from the Open Content Alliance and the University of Illinois offers digitized books by and about Lincoln.

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