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December 14, 2004
Some of us admit to a misspent youth lurking in libraries, devouring books on anything from
"the survival of the fittest"
or the explorations of Lewis and Clark to
the essence of philosophy
or Victorian detective yarns. This immersion has made us certain of one thing: there are a million and one books are out there waiting to be found (tens of millions,
by some counts
) - but library collections just aren't that easy to search.
Which is why we are thrilled to begin
scanning book collections
belonging to the University of Michigan, Harvard. Stanford, Oxford, and the New York Public Library, so that they become
more searchable
.
We launched the first part of
Google Print
in October to make the world of books more discoverable. The thing is, most books in the world are out of print. By working with libraries as well as publishers, we'll have access to millions of books, including many unique volumes that haven't been read in years. Soon a new generation will be able to discover them too.
Joseph O'Sullivan, Software engineer
Adam M. Smith, Business product manager
Google Print team
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