The Universal Library now offers 1.5 million books online, a milestone the venture achieved earlier this month. Now anyone with access to the Internet can browse the collection through a single Web portal, www.ulib.org.
The project, which began in 2002, is a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt. Works range from Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to the works of Confucius. Google and Microsoft have launched their own digital library projects, but the Universal Library is the world’s largest university-based collection.
