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Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the AmazonKindle. Since 2004, Google has scanned about seven million books from major university and research library collections. For now, however, Google can make full digital copies available only of books whose copyrights have expired. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the University of California system's announcement that it plans to create a new library whose collection would be available entirely on line. Details of the California Digital Library; Amount the collegiate system plans to spend; Comments from Richard E. Lucier, the digital library's first librarian; Goals of the library; The policy issues to be faced by the library's staff.