Alliance Columbia University, Columbia University Library System Complutense University of Madrid Cornell University, Cornell University Library Ghent University, Ghent University Library/Boekentoren Keio University, Keio Media Centers (Libraries) National Library of Catalonia, Biblioteca de Catalunya Princeton University, Princeton University Library University of California, California Digital Library University of Lausanne, Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne University of Mysore, Mysore University Library The partnership was for digitizing 800,000 texts, including manuscripts written in palm leaves dating back to 8th century. University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries The partnership was for digitizing the library's Latin American collection – about half a million volumes. University of Virginia, University of Virginia Library University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin Libraries As of March 2012, about 600,000 volumes had been scanned. History 2002: A group of team members at Google officially launch the "secret 'books' project." Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the idea that later became Google Books while still graduate students at Stanford in 1996. The history page on the Google Books website describes their initial vision for this project: "in a future world in which vast collections of books are digitized, people would use a 'web crawler' to index the books' content and analyze the connections between them, determining any given book's relevance and usefulness by tracking the number and quality of citations from other books." This team visited the sites of some of the larger digitization efforts at that time including the Library of Congress's American Memory Project, Project Gutenberg, and the Universal Library to find out how they work, as well as the University of Michigan, Page's alma mater, and the base for such digitization projects as JSTOR and Making of America. In a conversation with the at that time University President Mary Sue Coleman, when Page found out that the university's current estimate for scanning all the library's volumes was 1,000 years, Page reportedly told Coleman that he "believes Google can help make it happen in six." 2003: The team works to develop a high-speed scanning process as well as software for resolving issues in odd type sizes, unusual fonts, and "other unexpected peculiarities." December 2004: Google signaled an extension to its Google Print initiative known as the Google Print Library Project. Google announced partnerships with several high-profile university and public libraries, including the University of Michigan, Harvard (Harvard University Library), Stanford (Green Library),