With all these books going to be digitized, surely some will be of interest to genealogists. I submit this with the hope that one or more of the readers can supply more information on the subject and perhaps a way to nudge books for genealogists to the forefront for digitizing. The following item is from the LII email just received. Cliff Hayes -------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Google Partners With Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Balanced assessment of "a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database" by digitizing older out-of-copyright materials from the shelves of partnering libraries (University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library). Also includes links to other sources for full-text books online. Written by über-librarian Gary Price for the newsletter Search Engine Watch. http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3447411 http://lii.org?recs=024242 Subjects: * Digital libraries Created by: je --------------------------------------------------------------------------------