The Universal Library Project, sometimes
called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj
Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of
Carnegie Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt
are helping fund this effort through scanning facilities and personnel.
The Internet Archive has contributed 100k books from the Kansas City
Public Library along with servers to India. The Indian government
scanned the appropriate books. The Internet Archive has performed
automated conversion of these scans into this collection.
https://archive.org/details/universallibrary
