UC System May Join Google Library Program The University of California is considering joining other academic libraries participating in the library program of Google Book Search, with the board of regents discussing the possibilities at a meeting last week. As the Daily Californian reports, the UC system has over 34 million books that “could be eligible for digitization” under such a program. UC is already a participant in the Open Content Alliance project, which covers just public domain titles, but “books bound by copyright currently make up about 75 to 80 percent of UC collections.” UC director for library planning […]
