Google partnership will help preserve UI collection

University of Illinois Library officials were excited earlier this year when they started a project to digitize nearly 6,000 volumes of the library's holdings and make the material available via the Web.

The UI library has worked on smaller digitization efforts since the mid-1990s. But the project with the Open Content Alliance – a coalition of educational institutions, high-tech firms and others that's making public-domain electronic books freely available through the Internet Archive, its parent organization – should be the largest single effort of the kind undertaken by the UI when it is done, probably by year's end.

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