Four months after Microsoft abruptly terminated its multi-million dollar book digitization deal with Yale University, campus officials said they will have to wait for donations or grants to come in before they start another major book scanning project.

The University still has some plans to continue digitizing materials held in its libraries and museums that are unique to Yale. Whether those materials will end up on the Internet, however, remains unclear.

That contribution would have been much larger, of course, had all of the 100,000 volumes that were originally part of the Microsoft deal — which the technology giant called off when it decided to focus its search efforts more narrowly — been digitized. Instead, just about 30,000 books from the agreement have been scanned, and Yale does not yet know how it will disseminate those materials online.

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