Google to digitize Czech National Library collection

"Google is announcing the agreement with the Czech National Library to digitize up to 200,000 works from the historical collection, managed by the Department of Historical and Musical Archives of the Czech National Library and the Slavic Library. These are all published between the 16th and 18th century. Through this cooperation, important works of literature, philosophy and the natural sciences which could only be accessed by a few will become a common good"