Below is a list of collected Michigan Digitization Project (MDP) related news, documentation, publications, speeches, and interviews. Visit the HathiTrust Digital Library for access to the digitized materials, and for further information.
Agreements, Announcements and News
- U-M Library/Google Cooperative Agreement.
- U-M Library/Google Digitization Project: A Brief Overview. December 2004.
- U-M Library/Google Digitization Partnership FAQ. August 2005.
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) "Partnership announced between CIC Libraries and Google." June 2007.
- Instructional Handout: Google Book Search Tips. Last revised July 7, 2007.
- Google Book Search Tips. January 2008.
- University of Michigan and Indiana University create a multi-institutional repository (see the Indiana University press release). September 2008.
- Information about the settlement agreement between Google and plaintiffs - the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. October 2008. (originally on the University of Michigan Vice President for Communication site)
- U-M FAQ on the settlement agreement between Google and plaintiffs - the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. October 2008.
- Project Workflow Chart version 3.0. Last revised December 4, 2008.
- U-M Library/Google Amended Agreement. (Further infomation.) May 2009.
- Michigan Digitization Project (wikipedia entry)
Publications and Presentations
Please see the HathiTrust website for a full list of publications and presentations.
- "Google to scan famous libraries." BBC News. December 14, 2004.
- "Google Announces Plans to Digitize Public Library Holdings." Morning Edition. NPR, December 14, 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.
- Edwards, Andrew. "Google Goes to the Library." Fine Books and Collections Magazine. May/June 2005.
- Wilkin, John and Reginald Carr. "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." June 15, 2005.
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Steal This Book." Interview on On the Media, NPR. September 30, 2005.
- Bailey, Charles W. "The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography." Digital Koans. October 24, 2005.
- Manjoo, Farhad. "Throwing Google at the Book." Salon.com. November 9, 2005.
- Blyberg, John. "John Wilkin talks Google Print and Digitization." November 11, 2005.
- President Mary Sue Coleman. "Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good." February 6, 2006.
- President Mary Sue Coleman. "Not Your Father's Space Race." Address to the National Press Club. March 7, 2006.
- Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects. Symposium held at the University of Michigan in March 10-11, 2006. (Webcasts available.)
- President Mary Sue Coleman. Scholarship and Libraries in Transition Symposium. March 10, 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.
- Walker, Leslie. "Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books." Washington Post, Page D01. May 18, 2006.
- Courant, Paul N. "Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google." First Monday, volume 11, number 8. August 2006.
- Quint, Barbara. "Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks." Newsbreaks. September 5, 2006.
- Tennant, Roy. "Digital Libraries: Mass Digitization." Library Journal. October 15, 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.
- "A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project." InfoWorld podcast. December 1, 2006.
- Tengel, Brian. "How to use scanned books: Google Book Search not finished uploading." The Michigan Daily. December 1, 2006.
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "A Risky Gamble with Google." The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 2, 2006.
- Tigani, Tom. "University-Google digitization effort turns page toward future in book access." The University Record. December 4, 2006.
- Crawford, Walt. "Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update." Cites and Insights. 7, Number 1. January 2007.
- Toobin, Jeffrey. "Google's Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library." The New Yorker. February 5, 2007.
- Morath, Eric. "Google's scan of U-M library progresses ... quietly." The Detroit News. April 13, 2007.
- "A conversation with Perry Willett." The Library Cafe podcast, Vassar College. April 17, 2007.
- Townsend, Robert. "Google Books: What’s Not to Like?" AHA Today. April 30, 2007.
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