[Google Librarian Central] Checking in with Google Book Search

[Librarian Central]

Posted By Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager

Today we announced our 13th Library Project partner, the Bavarian State Library. With the announcement of a fourth library partner located outside the U.S., we're making headway towards our goal of helping people find books from libraries all over the world through Google Book Search. We're making a good deal of headway elsewhere, too. Let's take a look at some of our numbers as they stand right now:

Publisher partners: Over 10,000 from around the world
Library partners: 13 today
Books in the index: Over a million
Book Search interfaces: 9 (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese)
Number of books that mention my last name: 898

OK, maybe that last one isn't that important (unless you're researching your genealogy, in which case it could be very important). But we're proud of the progress we're making on this project. I'll leave you with one of my favorite Google Book Search quotes, which comes from a Library Journal article by John Berry III:

"[Google Book Search] has the potential to revolutionize research and to make the libraries of the world into the world's library."

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Posted By Librarian Central to Google Librarian Central at 3/06/2007 01:19:00 PM