Google To Digitize Much of Harvard's Library

FJCsar writes "According to an e-mail sent today to Harvard students, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system, which is second only to the Library of Congress in the number of volumes it contains. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. As of 9 am on December 14, a FAQ detailing the Harvard pilot program with Google will be available at hul.harvard.edu."

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All well and good, except

[sulli]

Harvard Sucks

(they admit it themselves!)

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[hussar]

It will also be interesting to see if anyone runs a project to see how much of the historical material was lifted from earlier writers. For example, how much did the US founding fathers "borrow" from other published works? A number of the early US statesmen attended Harvard (the second President of the United States, John Adams springs to mind), and it would be interesting to see how much, if any, of their writing was copied. John Locke's writing influenced much of the political opinion around the time of the founding. Did he "contribute" more than we know?