Digital library surpasses initial goal of 1 million books

I read an article titled "Digital library surpasses initial goal of 1 million books" the url link is: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/29/digital.library.ap/index.html


The article is about how the computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University started a project with huge expectations. These expectations are to digitize the entire published works of mankind and make them freely accessible online. The builders of the library have just recently surpassed their latest objective: scanning more than 1.5 million books. Most of these books are in Chinese, but the number of texts in English follows behind with a few hundred thousands less. The scanning of these books is important to anyone with an internet connection because users now have access to a collection of books the size of a large college library. The United States, China, and India have all put forth $10 million to help fund this project. This is not the first project of it's kind Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create a similar library. However, Google and Microsoft's library is smaller and it's purpose is non-commercial.

I found this article interesting mainly because I am a college student and I often need to do research and having access to a library online could really help me. I can now research from the comfort by my computer at any time I choose instead of dealing with library hours that don't always fit my schedule.