Nick Bunkley, of the News, and Mike Wendland, of the Free press, write that the public will have virtual access to seven million books in the U of M library through a new service being offered by U-M alumnus Larry Page, who plans to announce the deal today. It will make virtually everything in the university's extensive collections searchable online. U-M had started the task, but on their own it would have taken 1,600 years to complete, with the help of Google employees the task will be done in an estimated six years. The project, which also includes the New York Public Library and libraries at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford universities, will let Google users see the entire text of works in the public domain and those that the publisher has agreed to show online. The process will make more books available to more people, and it will help preserve books as well. The U-M library is the sixth largest in the country.