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...Verba said the new partnership with Google marks an unprecedented step in making Harvard’s books accessible to the public. Harvard’s libraries have made a smaller number of books available digitally through its Open Collections project...
...Verba explained that researchers will not “really get the book out of their computer...
...What they’re going to get is information about what’s in books and information on where you can find the books,” Verba said...
...Verba said the collaboration was sparked when Google approached Harvard a few years ago. He originally expressed concerns about keeping the collections available to researchers and avoiding damage to the books. But he said that when representatives from Google came back to talk a year later, they had addressed these concerns with an effective scanning technology...
...reasons we are doing this pilot study with 40,000 books is to see if that’s true,” Verba said. “We really don’t want to plunge into a really mega project without that assurance...