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Below is a full list of collected MBooks related news, documentation, publications, speaches, and interviews.

Visit the MBooks home page for more information about the project.

News & Announcements:

May 2008 [BLT] Blog for Library Technology is Library Information Technology’s new blog. [BLT] will be one channel for LIT to announce new technologies, tools, and services that we develop for the libraries.
May 2008 Scanning Schedule at Michigan: Library materials have been scanned from the Buhr Remote Shelving Facility, the Social Work Library, and the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library. We are currently scanning from the Hatcher Graduate Library. More details about the Hatcher Scanning Schedule at Michigan.
April 2008 University of Michigan and Indiana University create a multi-institutional repository. More details available via Indiana University's Shared Digital Repository project page.
Feb 2008 The UM Library marked the occasion of its millionth book online. Read more about the millionth book.
Jan 2008 New guide available: Google Book Search Tips. Google Book Search will help you find books digitized in the Michigan Digitization Project (MBooks) and Google's partnerships with other libraries around the world. Our new guide provides tips for searching Google Book Search, including how to download full-text books, how to locate a physical copy of books that are only available in snippet view, and how to identify what volume and issue of a journal when it is unclear in your search results.
Jan 2008 Michigan Digitization Project (wikipedia entry)

Project Documentation:

Feb 2008 Project Workflow Chart version 2.0
Dec 2007 MBooks records available via OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
Jun 2007 Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) "Partnership announced between CIC Libraries and Google." June 6, 2007.
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.
Aug 2005 U-M Library/Google Digitization Partnership FAQ. August 2005.
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.
no date Google Library Partnership (provided by U-M News Service)
no date Guide to Accessibility for information on how to use access keys in MBooks
no date U-M Library/Google Cooperative Agreement (also available as PDF)

Speeches, Interviews & Presentations:

Apr 2007 "A conversation with Perry Willett." The Library Cafe podcast, Vassar College. April 17, 2007.
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.
Sep 2006 "A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project." InfoWorld podcast. December 1, 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.
Mar 2006 President Mary Sue Coleman. "Not Your Father's Space Race." Address to the National Press Club. March 7, 2006.
Feb 2006 President Mary Sue Coleman. "Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good." February 6, 2006.
Nov 2005 Blyberg, John. "John Wilkin talks Google Print and Digitization."blyberg.net November 11, 2005.
Jun 2005 Wilkin, John and Reginald Carr. "Google’s Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and Oxford." June 15, 2005.

Published Articles by UM Faculty & Staff:

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.
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.

Other Articles:

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.
Feb 2007 Toobin, Jeffrey. "Google's Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library". The New Yorker. February 5, 2007.
Jan 2007 Crawford, Walt. "Book Searching: OCA/GBS Update." Cites and Insights. 7, Number 1: January 2007.
Dec 2006 Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "A Risky Gamble with Google." The Chronicle of Higher Education . December 2, 2006.
Oct 2006 Tennant, Roy. "Mass Digitization." Library Journal. October 15, 2006.
Sep/Oct 2006 Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Copyright Jungle." Columbia Journalism Review. 45:5 pp.42. Retrieved on 19 April, 2007.
Sep 2006 Quint, Barbara. "Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks." Newsbreaks. September 5, 2006.
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.
May 2006 Walker, Leslie. "Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books." Washington Post, May 18, 2006; Page D01.
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.
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.
Nov 2005 Manjoo, Farhad. "Throwing Google at the Book." Salon.com. November 9, 2005.
Oct 2005 Bailey, Charles W. "The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography." Digital Koans. October 24, 2005.
Sep 2005 Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Steal This Book." Interview on On the Media, NPR, September 30, 2005.
Jun 2005 Carnevale, Dan. "U. of Michigan Unveils Its Book-Scanning Contract With Google." The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 20, 2005.
May/June 2005 Edwards, Andrew. "Google Goes to the Library." Fine Books and Collections Magazine. May/June 2005.
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.
Dec 2004 "Google to scan famous libraries." BBC News. December 14, 2004.
Dec 2004 "Google Announces Plans to Digitize Public Library Holdings." Morning Edition. NPR, December 14, 2004.
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.

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