Mad Librarian lowdown on Stanford's participation in Google digitization project

Misseli, the Mad Librarian, gives us the lowdown from a Stanford library employee meeting on the Google/Stanford deal. 

She says that Stanford has NOT made a commitment to digitize all of its books, but we "will do as much as we can for as long as we can."

Excerpts from her notes: What Google will provide to the public --

Works in copyright won't be fully available

For copyrighted works -- there will be a click-through to the appropriate OCLC WorldCat record

Approximately 10% of Stanford's overall collection is clearly out of copyright; other material in the public domain (such as U.S. government documents) will be included in the project.

Google will be responsible for determining what's in copyright and what's not if there are any questionable materials.

Each books that is digitized will be KEPT -- our patrons will continue to need those physical books and we will provide for them.