[Publib] CNN: UW-Madison joins the Googleplex

[Joe Schallan]

Just reported at cnn.com . . .

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google Inc.'s bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, they said.

Those books and documents represent one of the largest U.S. collections of historical and government documents. They will be selected from a combined 7.2 million library holdings . . . .

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UW-Madison now joins UC Berkeley and the
library of the Universidad Complutense de
Madrid in the vast digitization project.

Joe Schallan
Phoenix

PS.  The several suggestions for a name for the
phenomenon of googling an obscure topic and
getting hits only to your own stuff in Wikipedia
have been fun.  I absolutely LOVE "deja goo."
      Yogi Berra at his computer: "It's deja goo
all over again!"  (Of course, this supposes that
Yogi would actually WRITE Wikipedia entries.
The mind boggles.)