Last December, Google unveiled a gargantuan effort to scan the library collections of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library into an Internet database.

FORBES

Recently I invited Ted Spencer of the University of Michigan and Eric Furda of the University of Pennsylvania to join me in the Forbes library for a discussion on college admissions.

FORBES: College Admissions: Forbes Roundtable Discussion

Directors of the digital library, first conceived in 2010, include officials from Harvard University and the University of Michigan and a former executive at Google Inc.

WSJ: Digital public library with vast archive opens