Google Inc. has announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google. Google has also launched Giigle Suggest beta.

The library partnership is an expansion of the Google Print program, which is designed to assist publishers in making books and other offline information searchable online. Google is working with libraries to digitally scan books from their collections, and over time plans to integrate this content into the Google index, to make it searchable for users worldwide. Users searching with Google will see links in their search results page when there are books relevant to their query. Clicking on a title delivers a Google Print page where users can browse the full text of public domain works and brief excerpts and/or bibliographic data of copyrighted material. Library content will be displayed in keeping with copyright law.