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The University of Michigan and Google, Inc. have entered into a ground-breaking partnership to digitize the entire print collection of the University Library. The digitized collection, called MBooks, is searchable in the library catalog, Mirlyn, as well as in the Google Book Search. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available.
The University of Michigan University Library embarked on this partnership for a number of very compelling reasons:
The University Library's digital collection is constantly evolving to suit new and existing demands from library users and library services. We anticipate that MBooks will change and adjust accordingly.
Other Google Book Search Partners
These 4 examples below are items that can be found in Mirlyn and are in the public domain (that is freely accessible). For additional information about MBooks, see the FAQ.
| no date | U-M Library/Google Cooperative Agreement (also available as PDF) |
| Feb 2008 | Project Workflow Chart version 2.0 |
| no date | Google Library Partnership (provided by U-M News Service) |
| Dec 2004 | U-M University Library-Google Digitization Project: Project Overview. December 13, 2004. |
| Dec 2004 | Press Release: U-M Release and Q&A. December 14, 2004. |
| Aug 2005 | U-M Library/Google Digitization Partnership FAQ. August 2005. |
| Sep 2005 | Press Release: U-M statement on Google library project. September 21, 2005. |
| Sep 2005 | Instructional Handout: Google Book Search Tips. Last revised July 7, 2007. |
| Jun 2007 | Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) "Partnership announced between CIC Libraries and Google." June 6, 2007. |
| no date | Guide to Accessibility for information on how to use access keys in MBooks |
| Jun 2005 | Wilkin, John and Reginald Carr. "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." June 15, 2005. |
| Nov 2005 | Blyberg, John. "John Wilkin talks Google Print and Digitization."blyberg.net November 11, 2005. |
| Feb 2006 | President Mary Sue Coleman. "Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good." February 6, 2006. |
| Mar 2006 | President Mary Sue Coleman. "Not Your Father's Space Race." Address to the National Press Club. March 7, 2006. |
| Mar 2006 | President Mary Sue Coleman. Scholarship and Libraries in Transition Symposium March 10, 2006. |
| Mar 2006 | Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects. Speakers include Barbara McFadden Allen (Committee on Institutional Cooperation), L. Suzanne BeDell (ProQuest Information and Learning), Mary Sue Coleman (University of Michigan), Paul Courant (University of Michigan), Nancy Davenport (Council on Library and Information Resources), Dan Greenstein (California Digital Library), Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal), James Hilton (University of Michigan), Bruce James (U.S. Government Printing Office), Brian Kahin (University of Michigan), Michael Keller (Stanford University), John King (University of Michigan), Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information), Ronald Milne (Oxford University), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media), Josie Parker (Ann Arbor District Library), Karl Pohrt (Shaman Drum Bookshop), Mark Sandler (University of Michigan), Adam Smith (Google), Ed Tenner (Princeton University), Hal Varian (University of California, Berkeley), Alicia Wise (Publishers Licensing Society), Karin Wittenborg (University of Virginia), Ann Wolpert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Symposium held at the University of Michigan in March 10-11, 2006. Webcasts available. |
| Sep 2006 | "A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project." InfoWorld podcast. December 1, 2006. |
| Nov 2006 | Farber, Phil; Chris Powell and Cory Snavely. "MBooks: Google Books Online at the University of Michigan Library." Digital Library Federation Forum, Boston MA, November 10, 2006. |
| Nov 2006 | "Google and the University of Michigan." McMaster University Library. November 13, 2006. |
| Apr 2007 | "A conversation with Perry Willett." The Library Cafe podcast, Vassar College. April 17, 2007. |
| Aug 2006 | Courant, Paul N. "Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google." First Monday, volume 11, number 8. August 2006. |
| Dec 2006 | Tengel, Brian. "How to use scanned books: Google Book Search not finished uploading." The Michigan Daily, December 1, 2006. Retrieved on 20 April 2007. |
| Dec 2006 | Tigani, Tom. "University-Google digitization effort turns page toward future in book access." The University Record, December 4, 2006. Retrieved on 20 April 2007. |
| Dec 2004 | Scott, Carlson and Jeffrey R. Young. "Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Leading Research Libraries." The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 14, 2004. |
| Dec 2004 | "Google Announces Plans to Digitize Public Library Holdings." Morning Edition. NPR, December 14, 2004. |
| Dec 2004 | "Google to scan famous libraries." BBC News. December 14, 2004. |
| Dec 2004 | Said, Carolyn. "Revolutionary chapter: Google's ambitious book-scanning plan seen as key shift in paper-based culture." San Francisco Chronicle. December 20, 2004. |
| May/June 2005 | Edwards, Andrew. "Google Goes to the Library." Fine Books and Collections Magazine. May/June 2005. |
| Jun 2005 | Carnevale, Dan. "U. of Michigan Unveils Its Book-Scanning Contract With Google." The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 20, 2005. |
| Sep 2005 | Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Steal This Book." Interview on On the Media, NPR, September 30, 2005. |
| Oct 2005 | Bailey, Charles W. "The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography." Digital Koans. October 24, 2005. |
| Nov 2005 | Manjoo, Farhad. "Throwing Google at the Book." Salon.com. November 9, 2005. |
| Feb 2006 | Foster, Andrea L. "U. of Michigan President Defends Library's Role in Controversial Google Scanning Project." The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 7, 2006. |
| Mar 2006 | "Mass Digitization: Implications for Information Policy Report from 'Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects' Symposium held on March 10-11, 2006 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI." Washington DC: U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), 2006. |
| May 2006 | Walker, Leslie. "Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books." Washington Post, May 18, 2006; Page D01. |
| Aug 2006 | Young, Jeffrey R. "U. of Michigan Adds Books Digitized by Google to Online Catalog, but Limits Use of Some". The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 31, 2006. |
| Sep 2006 | Quint, Barbara. "Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks." Newsbreaks. September 5, 2006. |
| Sep/Oct 2006 | Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Copyright Jungle." Columbia Journalism Review. 45:5 pp.42. Retrieved on 19 April, 2007. |
| Oct 2006 | Tennant, Roy. "Mass Digitization." Library Journal. October 15, 2006. |
| Dec 2006 | Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "A Risky Gamble with Google." The Chronicle of Higher Education . December 2, 2006. |
| Jan 2007 | Crawford, Walt. "Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update." Cites and Insights. 7, Number 1: January 2007. |
| Feb 2007 | Toobin, Jeffrey. "Google's Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library". The New Yorker. February 5, 2007. |
| Apr 2007 | Morath, Eric. "Google's scan of U-M library progresses ... quietly." The Detroit News. April 13, 2007. |
| Apr 2007 | Townsend, Robert. "Google Books: What’s Not to Like?" AHA Today. April 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2 May 2007. |
If you have questions about the project, please send them to mdp-help@umich.edu.
