LONDON - The National Library of Catalonia with five affiliated libraries have agreed to participate in Google Inc.'s bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, the third in Europe to join the project.

The two organizations said in a statement that they will soon be digitizing hundreds and thousands of public domain works, counting collections by Catalonian writers such as Ramon Llull, Angel Guimera and Jacint Verdaguer in addition to Cervantes and Gongora. Google, the world's most used search engine, is also accomplishing a pilot project with the U.S. Library of Congress.

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