Did you know that Ohio State is among a select group of “Big
10” and other major research universities participating with Google in a major
book scanning project that first launched nearly a decade ago? The Google Books Library Project is the
largest project of its kind ever undertaken to digitize printed materials in academic
research libraries. OSU
began pulling and sending books from campus libraries two years ago and now
it’s the Law Library’s turn to participate. Out-of-copyright books in the public domain (published
pre-1923) have been identified for the project.
Books will be unavailable to
patrons for a period of about eight weeks, while they are in transit and being
scanned at a facility out-of-state. If
you have a question or need an item right away, please contact the Circulation
staff who can assist with locating a copy through interlibrary loan.
Digital copies of the scanned books eventually
will be made available to users through a digital archive known as the HathiTrust that currently stores some
10.6 million volumes. The Ohio State
University Moritz Law Library will be credited as the source of the original
for all scanned items. For further
information on the Google Books Library Project involving OSU and other universities
that are part of the CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) consortium, go
to: https://www.cic.net/projects/library/book-search/introduction