Dear All, STAT WATCH: A Look At Google Print for Libraries 18 Million: Books held by five libraries whose books Google is scanning 10.5 Million: Unique books held 49%: unique books in English 30%: unique books in German, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian 50%: unique books published after 1974 66% - 82%: unique books under copyright Numbers are estimates. Compiled from 'Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The example of Google Print for Libraries by Brian Lavoie, Lynn Connaway and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Office of research, D-Lib Magazine, September 2005. www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html Source: Library Journal, October1, 2005, 130(16) -- Poornima Narayana Contact: 080-25086083 (O) Dy Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima@css.nal.res.in Airport Road prn_1_in@yahoo.com Bangalore 560 017 Fax: 080-25268072