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First French partner for Google Book Search
A Thaw in Franco-Google Relations? Google Books Signs First French Library, Library Journal Academic Newswire, July 15, 2008.
... [Google] this week announced that it had signed its 29th library partner for Google Book Search. Google officials announced that the Lyon Municipal Library, France’s second largest library after the national library in Paris, and the project’s first partner in France, has signed on to make more than 500,000 books available online as part of Google’s Book Search Library project.See also coverage at The Bookseller. Update. See also coverage at The Bookseller on why the Lyon library opted to work with Google rather than with France's national digitization program. Update. See also the post at the Google Book Search blog. |