Google Library Partners Making Their Own Database

A group of libraries that are participating in the
Besides, they're going to have things that Google doesn't as well. Materials digitized through other means will also be made available through HathiTrust, A blurb on the HathiTrust site goes:

Where’s the search interface to all of the content in HathiTrust? There is currently no single global interface to the body of content in HathiTrust repository.

Be assured we are working with our partners to accomplish this—a way that takes into account the large number of different sources of metadata and the different strategies each of the partners has for managing that information.

I assume Google is one of these partners, but to be clear, this project is separate from Google. That's the whole point, so it will be interesting to see if Google ends up providing the search technology for the database. While there are 25 libraries participating in the project so far, they are hoping to get the rest of those involved with the Google Books Library Project on board as well. Current partners are as follows:

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