Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries. The Michigan ...

A new library service will enable digital access to millions of items in the Yale University Library’s general print collections by delivering scans to library users’ desktops. “The print collections ...

Despite complaints that it is violating copyright law, Google Inc. has resumed a project to scan books from some of the world's biggest libraries. The Mountain View search engine's self-imposed, 2 1/2 ...

Google is partnering with Harvard to make 40,000 of the University’s library books searchable online in a pilot project that could lead to the digitization of all 15 million books in Harvard’s ...

Google was once working on a project to scan almost all books ever published and make out-of-copyright books accessible with one click. However, the project was blocked by legal barriers, and the ...

When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The is ...

A new service expected by library administrators to soon become “indispensable” to the research process allows researchers to request materials and receive scanned copies by email. Through the new ...