Responding to concerns from several academic and commercial publishers, Google has made minor adjustments to its vast project to scan library books, and Google officials say they will not scan any ...

Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries. The Michigan ...

Despite complaints that it is violating copyright law, Google Inc. has resumed a project to scan books from some of the world's biggest libraries. The Mountain View search engine's self-imposed, 2 1/2 ...

Google is partnering with Harvard to make 40,000 of the University’s library books searchable online in a pilot project that could lead to the digitization of all 15 million books in Harvard’s ...

Responding to concerns from several academic and commercial publishers, Google has made minor adjustments in its vast project to scan library books, and Google officials say they will not scan any ...

A new library service will enable digital access to millions of items in the Yale University Library’s general print collections by delivering scans to library users’ desktops. “The print collections ...

A year after announcing its libraries would be among the first in the nation to require a fingerprint scan to use public computers, Naperville’s library system has canceled the controversial project.

If you thought the controversy over library book scanning ended with the Google case, think again. This week the National Writers Union became the latest organization to join the outcry over a ...

Patrons of the Coronado Public Library now have the option to use their smartphone instead of a library card to check out books, the space announced on Sunday. Thanks to a collaboration with developer ...

Google Books partners with the British Library to digitize 250,000 books from between 1700 and 1870. Readers will soon be able to access all of the knowledge without the mustiness of old books. Amanda ...