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 searchableavailable inthrough the University of Michigan libraryLibrary catalog, [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/ Mirlyn], asthe wellHathiTrust asDigital Library catalog, [http://catalog.hathitrust.org], inand [[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>
According to the [[University of Michigan Library|University of Michigan University Library]], they embarked on this partnership for a number of reasons:
