As well as, the Open Content Alliance, Larry Lessig, John Price Wilkin, Archive.org‘s Scribe scanning machineall in an article by Jeff Toobin “Google’s Moon Shot”

Somewhat related, but Open Content not Google:
$2 Million Sloan Foundation Grant To Help Digitize Thousands of Books at Library of Congress

$2 Million grant to digitize brittle books at Library of Congress

(Thanks to Peter at LoC)