Google Libraries

I'm pretty excitied about the Google announcement that they're working with the university libraries of Harvard, University of Michigan (Go Blue!), Stanford, Oxford, and the New York Public Library.  They plan to digitize all the books in the entire library collections.  Only those books in public domain will be available online. 

I can't imagine how cool it will be to do a keyword search on essentially all books that have ever been in print. 

Hopefully this project will create bit more pressure to allow things into the public domain, as Laurence Lessig has suggested with the Eldred Act.

(Via John Palfrey at the Berkman Center, Via Dave.)