Google will greatly expand its Google Library Project through a deal it has made to digitize 10 million books in the libraries of 12 universities.
The 12 universities are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the 11 universities in the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago. The deal expands the number of agreements Google has made with universities from 15 to 25. Two Big Ten members, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, had already made independent deals with Google, which this arrangement does not supersede.