Last December, Google unveiled a gargantuan effort to scan the library collections of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library into an Internet database.

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The JFK School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge -- miles away from the library in the Dorchester section of Boston -- was evacuated.

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The JFK School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge --- miles away from the library in the Dorchester section of Boston -- was evacuated.

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Directors of the digital library, first conceived in 2010, include officials from Harvard University and the University of Michigan and a former executive at Google Inc.

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