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...Google Book Search through the online HOLLIS catalog in September, Suzanne Kriegsman, the project’s manager, announced to a library staff e-mail list last week. That number is still rising as the scanning of Harvard’s library collections continues. The initiative is part of Google??€™s larger objective to digitize the world’s libraries into a widely accessible and easy-to-search form. According to Kriegsman’s e-mail, which was obtained by a Crimson reporter, eight libraries at Harvard have finished scanning their books. Those libraries are Andover...
...each passing news cycle. It’s up to us—and the other campus blogs, more of which launch every day—to insist on standards, no matter how sophomoric the subject matter. To give fair comment to the people we write about. To respect Google??€™s lidless eye. To bear in mind our own college screw-ups as we castigate others...
...While the Open Collections Program digitizes comprehensive collections on a specific historical subject, the University’s collaboration with Google??€”announced in 2004—seeks to scan all of Harvard’s non-copyrighted book collection, a project that is currently underway and that could eventually cover more than a million works...
...Google??€™s initiative to digitize books has not come without controversy, however: the Authors Guild and five publishing companies sued Google in 2005 for its search program, which allows users to search for keywords within copyrighted, as well as out-of-copyright, works. The suit is ongoing...
...Google??€™s initiative has been mired in lawsuits from copyright holders, though Harvard is only scanning works that are in the public domain...