Google and govdocs

A govdocs librarian from the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library gives an update of the govdocs arm of Google Books, the giant, ambitious Google digitization project. Wisconsin is one of the libraries involved in the Google Books partnership, and she reports that they are in the early stages of sending government document volumes to Google - currently, Wisconsin state documents. She adds this reminder: "One thing to keep in mind: Google is interested in digitizing a lot of content. Google’s primary mission is to "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Their ultimate goal is comprehensiveness; they are not focused on building a complete collection of government documents organized as government documents, or any other type of material as a particular collection."