I remember back in grad school when "PLATO" was the hot system and Bitnet was the standard thinking about what an effort it would be to digitize the UIC library. The has come, soon we will have search access to the Bodlian, Harvard and other major libraries. The New York Times > Technology > Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database: "Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web."