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The University of Michigan and Google, Inc. have entered into a ground-breaking partnership to digitize the entire print collection of the University Library. The digitized collection, called MBooks, is searchable in the library catalog, Mirlyn, as well as in the Google Book Search. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available.
The University of Michigan University Library embarked on this partnership for a number of very compelling reasons:
The University Library's digital collection is constantly evolving to suit new and existing demands from library users and library services. We anticipate that MBooks will change and adjust accordingly.
Go to Public Collections to browse other people's collections. Items can be copied into your own personal collection.
Go to the Mirlyn Library Catalog to find new items. MBooks items will have links to "MBooks Online." Following this link will bring you back to MBooks where you can add that item to a collection.| Currently scanning: Hatcher Graduate Library, more details about the Hatcher Scanning Schedule. |
| Summer 2008: Dentistry Library and Taubman Medical Library monographs. |
| Fall 2008: More Hatcher Graduate Library. |
| Scanning completed: The Social Work Library, the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, and large portions of the Buhr Remote Shelving Facility. |
| July 2008 | New features have been added to the MBooks system allow users to create their own collections of MBooks items and view public collections created by others. Users can also do full text searching across all items within a collection. Take our quick survey to help us decide what features to add next. |
| 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. |
| 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) |
These 4 examples below are items that can be found in Mirlyn and are in the public domain (that is, freely accessible).
See also: MBooks FAQ | Blog for Library Technology | Full list of MBooks related news & resources | Other Google Book Search Partners
If you have questions about the project, please send them to mdp-help@umich.edu.
