Laura,
It would be worth going to Hathi Trust site (http://www.hathitrust.org). That is where the libraries are collaborating to store and make accessible all the digitized books. You will see that most of the books can only be searched inside of but not viewed however if they are out of copyright you can view the entire work.
Matt Goldner
Matthew R. Goldner
Product & Technology Advocate
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura E. Krier
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] New "Cataloging Matters" podcast
This is one of the questions I've had about the Google Book Project for awhile: Didn't the libraries that partnered with Google receive the digital files for the books scanned from their collections? I recall that being part of the agreement when the project first began, but I haven't heard much about it since. Were there limits on what the libraries could do with these files? Or did that never actually end up happening?
On Dec 21, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> structured metadata provided by you know who. One of the reasons
> for us is that we don't have the full text and won't get it.
>
laura
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Whitman College Penrose Library
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Received on Tue Dec 21 2010 - 11:01:34 EST