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[[Image:Digitized by Google-20060530.jpg|thumb|Hand digitization, University of Michigan, 2006]]

The''' Michigan Digitization Project''' is a project in partnership with [[Google books]] to digitize the entire print collection of the [[University of Michigan Library]]. The digitized collection, called '''MBooks''', is searchable in the University of Michigan library catalog, [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Mirlyn], as well as in [[Google Book Search]]. Full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public ___domain are available. <ref>Carlson Scott and Jeffrey R. Young. "Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Leading Research Libraries," [http://chronicle.com/daily/2004/12/2004121401n.htm ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', December 14, 2004.] </ref>

<ref>Carnevale, Dan. "U. of Michigan Unveils Its Book-Scanning Contract With Google," [http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/06/2005062001t.htm ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', June 20, 2005] </ref>, <ref> Foster, Andrea L. "U. of Michigan President Defends Library's Role in Controversial Google Scanning Project," [http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020702t.htm ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', February 7, 2006. ]</ref>