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to scan determines stetson hatter and post baby sun hat spells out on the Internet at least summary references to books. Older volumes in the public domain, generally those published before 1923, can be put on line in full, but debate and litigation surround how much material can be used from books that are still protected by copyright. Daniel Greenstein, UC's associate vice provost for scholarly information, said that joining the Google Books Library Project -- with its ability to search for terms inside texts, not only in catalog listings -- would help "create access like we've never had before to our cultural heritage and scholarly memory. It's a whole new paradigm. "In an interview Tuesday, Greenstein said that such digitizing offers protection for writings that might be lost in natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and earthquakes. "It's the kind of stewardship that is absolutely vital to us and the community in general," said Greenstein, who oversees digital projects for UC libraries. A UC deal with Google could be announced within a month, officials said. However, the arrangement first faces close scrutiny from the UC regents and the publishing world for potential copyright issues and concerns that UC might lose out on future revenue. Last year, a group of U. S. publishers and the Authors Guild filed suits in federal court in New York against Google, contending that scanning copyrighted books without permission is copyright infringement, even if the books are not posted online or only tiny excerpts are shown. Allan Adler, vice president of legal and government affairs for the Assn.

of American Publishers, which is backing one of the lawsuits, said he understood why the search engine giant would want to sign up UC's enormous libraries Stetson Hatters . "It would be a significant addition with the sheer volume of the materials involved," he said. Google's university partners are not defendants in the suits and UC probably would not be either, Adler said baby sun hats . "But on the other hand, it is rather curious that the University of California would announce this knowing the project is under a cloud of litigation at the moment," he said. Under agreements with libraries, Google makes two copies of books, keeps one and gives one to the campuses bailey hats . To avoid trouble, some of the libraries now allow scanning of only public domain books beach hats . But the University of Michigan and Google have said they do not need permission to allow a few sentences from copyrighted works online; such "fair use" quotation, they said, can help authors by boosting sales. UC probably would follow the Michigan model in scanning works both in and out of copyright, Greenstein said.

"This is not about breaking the law or stealing material," he said, stressing that university attorneys have approved the idea. Megan Lamb, a Google spokeswoman, said the Mountain View, Calif. -based company now works with four universities in the United States and England -- Stanford, Harvard, Michigan and Oxford -- along with the New York Public Library and, in a pilot stage, the Library of Congress stetson hatters baseball . The Google Book Search ( books. google ) also includes partnerships with some publishers that usually allow several pages of books to be shown. "We are very interested in exploring additional partnerships to make the world of books searchable online," Lamb said beach straw hat . But she said the firm would not comment on the UC negotiations at this point. UC last year joined another online book scanning and posting project as part of the Open Content Alliance ( opencontentalliance. org) beaver brand hats . That project, which is still in an early stage, has the backing of Yahoo Inc big straw hats . and Microsoft and includes other universities and archives in the United States, Canada and Europe. It is starting only with books in the public domain. Greenstein said UC would keep its membership in that alliance if it also joined the Google initiative.

But he and other experts said Google offers much more capacity and resources for scanning stetson hatters basketball . Google wants to digitize several million books in UC's holdings over the next six years or so, a scale the Alliance could not afford, he said. Andrew Herkovic, director of communications and development for the Stanford University Libraries, described the Google book search project as one of many digitizing efforts across the nation, although it is "the most ambitious one I know of. Stetson Hatters tickets ""We think these are transformative and important activities for discovery biltmore hat Stetson Hatters - gohatters . And the more the merrier," he said of UC possibly joining the Google effort. Lamb, the Google spokeswoman, said the company does not reveal how many books it has scanned nor how many visits its book search site receives biltmore hats . Google receives no revenues from books that are sold through links to its site, but the firm does earn advertising revenues from parts of its site that show books acquired from publishers, she said. UC would not receive any payments under the proposed contract black cowboy hat Stetson Hatters - gohatters . It potentially could save millions of dollars a year if libraries could buy fewer copies of books and journals and instead direct students and scholars to the digital versions. Plus, it could avoid scanning costs, which some estimate can be as much as $35 a book Stetson Hatters . The university would have to initially invest between $1 million and $5 million for computer storage and spend upward of $700,000 a year for such costs as staff salaries for moving books from shelves before scanning, officials said . UC regents heard the outlines of the possible Google deal at a recent meeting.