New Google Venture

From the Chronicle of Higher Education....

"Five of the world's largest libraries have joined Google in a Herculean effort to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable.

The project, which Google officials announced today, involves libraries at Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library. It could soon turn Google into the single largest holder of digitized published material, while also providing researchers and students with an unprecedented tool for finding information.

The trickiest issue is copyright." --- (Editorial comment) Well, duh...