Last Monday Minnov8 contributor, Liz Geil, posted about the UofMN project to have Google digitize many important volumes in the library system. The StarTribune had an article today about the initiative to enable a million University of Minnesota books to be digitally copied by Google under a plan to put the world’s libraries online. But most of the book copies are being locked in an archive, the digital equivalent of gathering dust.
No one will be able to read these digital books — at least for now — because of a five-year-old copyright lawsuit against Google. Five million books at the University of Michigan are threatened with the same fate.
Bummer. Read the entire article here.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
‘Bummer’ is right!