Very cool news

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database

December 14, 2004
By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT



Google plans to begin converting the holdings of leading
research libraries into digital files that would be
searchable online.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?ex=1104022239&ei=1&en=b97f481264b29455