Google Digitization Progress

The University of Michigan and Google Inc. have entered into a ground-breaking partnership to digitize the entire print collection of the University Library. (See Michigan Digitization Project for details.) The digitized collection, called MBooks, is searchable in the library catalog, Mirlyn, as well as in Google Book Search. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available.

Scanning in the Graduate Library started in 2008. During the scanning project, groups of books are removed from the shelves for a week to 10 days while they are sent to be scanned, then returned and immediately re-shelved.

Google is currently scanning books from the following areas :

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

• We are currently sending Z volumes from floor 2 North and 2A North.  After we finish with the Z volumes on 2A, we will send the Juvenile Collection.  We expect to finish sending volumes from Hatcher by the end of August.

This is a guide only. The above information is correct to the best of our knowledge as of the day listed above. Because books are being constantly removed and returned, the exact call number ranges for books that have been pulled has probably changed by the time you actually visit the shelves.

Please feel free to use the Mirlyn Get This function to place a request for items that are currently on loan for scanning. (Instructions)

Look for signage in the Graduate Library lobbies, at service desks and on the floors on which we are working for alerts regarding the project, including information about that week's call number ranges.

If you have questions about this project, please contact Rebecca Dunkle, Director of Onsite Access Service and Distributed Libraries, University Libraries (rdunkle@umich.edu, 936-2379).