National Library of Catalonia joins the Google Book Search project

National Library of Catalonia joins the Google Book Search project

Search engine giant Google has confirmed that they now have the support of the National Library of Catalonia and its five affiliated libraries for their Google Book Search project.

They would be the third major library joining the project from the European region. They would be joining Google in digitizing hundreds and thousands of public domain works. This would include works from Catalonian writers such as Ramon Llull, Angel Guimera and Jacint Verdaguer as well as Cervantes and Gongora.

Dolors Lamarca, the director of the National Library of Barcelona said in a statement: “It once was the case that only those who could visit our library were able to ‘visit’ our books. Now, anyone interested in the vast number of titles our library houses will be able to find and access them online.”

The affiliated libraries in this project are: Montserrat Library, the Seminary Library of Barcelona, the Excursionist Center of Catalonia, and the Barcelonan Ateneu Library.