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he national 12-university consortium called the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) announced a collective agreement today (June 6) to digitize select collections across all its libraries, up to 10 million volumes, as part of the Google Book Search project. Penn State's Pattee/Paterno Libraries at University Park are a repository for millions of resources. Read the full story at http://live.psu.edu/story/24619 online.
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Year Taken: 2007
Nancy Eaton, dean of the Penn State University Libraries, discussed the announcement as cameras rolled at the press conference Wednesday (June 6) on the Unversity Park campus.
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Year Taken: 2007
Rodney Erickson, Penn State's executive vice president and provost, listens to announcement at the press conference.
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Year Taken: 2007
Rodney Erickson, Penn State's executive vice president and provost, listens to announcement at the press conference.
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Year Taken: 2007
Adam Smeltz, a reporter with the Centre Daily Times, left, takes notes on the announcement.
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Year Taken: 2007
Adam Smeltz, a reporter with the Centre Daily Times, left, takes notes on the announcement.
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Year Taken: 2007
These books are representative of the special collections areas that Penn State will contribute, but that they may not be among the titles actually included in the project. Specific works have not yet been identified.
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Year Taken: 2007
Searching the library "stacks" may become unnecessary in many cases, as library patrons will have access to nearly 10 million volumes online.
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Year Taken: 2007
Penn State expects to contribute its distinctive collections on food sciences, mycology and mushroom production, chocolate/cocoa; German Americana; materials science and ceramics; meteorology; and mining to the project.
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Year Taken: 2007
The digitized works from Penn State University Libraries and the other CIC-schools' libraries will be indexed for searching using the Google Book Search, found at http://books.google.com/ online.
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Year Taken: 2007
This is a sample page for a work that is still under copyright protection. The Google Book Searh results return snippets of the work, along with information about where to buy or borrow the full text.
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Year Taken: 2007
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