STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Big Ten Conference schools will digitize select collections in each of the university's libraries - up to 10 million volumes - as part of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project.

The partnership will speed up a digitization process that might have taken hundreds of years, school officials said in announcing the agreement Wednesday. It will result in a shared digital repository that faculty, students and the public can access quickly on Google.

The agreement covers Google and the 12 schools on the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic arm of the Big Ten Conference. The schools on the committee include the 10 Big Ten schools affiliated through athletics - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin - plus the University of Chicago.

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