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Google and the Government

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The Chronicle of Higher Education gives more information about Google’s government search and other deals the government is making for private sector delivery of government information. It says this is connected to “Google’s drive to digitize government documents”

Google and the Gov, Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Wired Campus, June 15, 2006

In early July, the Library of Congress Law Library will begin sending thousands of volumes of U.S. Congressional hearings to Google for digitization. The first shipment will consist of 5,000 volumes, but library officials anticipate that they will send 10,000 volumes a month to the search-engine company, says Mark Strattner, the law library’s chief of collection services.

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