{"word_count": 148, "character_count": 985}
http://www.univie.ac.at/voeb/blog/?p=7247Bas Savenije, director general of the KB, national library of the Netherlands and Philippe Colombet, European Strategic Partnerships Manager at Google, signed an agreement today under which Google will digitise more than 160.000 out-of-copyright (public domain) books from the library’s collection. The books will be fully searchable and accessible for free via Google Books, via the various KB websites and – at a later date – via the European Union’s Europeana portal.The books to be scanned constitute the majority of the library’s public domain collection, and form an important addition to the corpus of public domain books that has already been digitised and made searchable in Google Books. The collection includes a wide range of historical, legal and social works published in the Netherlands during the 18th and 19th centuries and will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the Dutch-speaking world and around the globe.