Cornell to partner with Microsoft to digitize some of its library holdings

This Cornell press release describes the partnership between the university, Microsoft, and Kirtas Technologies to digitize and make accessible through Microsoft's Live Book Search selected public domain materials in agriculture, American history, English literature, astronomy, food and wine, general engineering, the history of science, home economics, hospitality and travel, human sexuality, labor relations, Native American materials, ornithology, veterinary medicine, and women's studies.

Cornell joins University of California and University of Toronto Libraries in Live Book Search.