University of Texas library in Austin joins Google Book Search project

Search engine company Google has announced that their Book Search project is now supported by University of Texas library in Austin.

The company would now digitize more than one million written works available at the university. This content would be made available for search on their Book Search web service.

Google said that the works being digitized from this library include rare books and manuscripts from early Latin American history.

University director of libraries Fred Heath added on this project: “Intellectual discovery is at the heart of the scholarly research process. The best collections of information are only as useful as the quality of the tools available for discovering and accessing that information.”

Google incidentally is already working with other US libraries including the New York Public Library and the ones at Harvard, Oxford, Complutense of Madrid and the University of California.

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