A World Digital Library

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A World Digital Library

By Juned

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In a signing ceremony in Paris the US Library of Congress and United Nations 
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO announced that they 
have joined forces to build a library that will store "unique and rare 
materials" from archives and libraries from all over the world 

LINK: [Source]
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40277&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

According to UNESCO -

The World Digital Library initiative will digitize unique and rare materials 
from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them 
available free of charge on the Internet. These materials include manuscripts, 
maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs.

From the afternoon of the 15th of October through the 19th, outside Room X at 
UNESCO Headquarters, a prototype of the World Digital Library will be 
demonstrated, and tested, before delegates of UNESCO's 193 Member States 
attending the Organization's General Conference. The prototype was developed by 
the Library of Congress and UNESCO with five other partner institutions: 
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Egypt, the National Library of 
Brazil, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library.

The prototype functions in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and 
Spanish, the six official languages of the United Nations, as well as in 
Portuguese. It features search and browse by place, time, topic, and 
contributing institution. [Source]

And here is the website of the World Digital Library.

Now why is this important?

1) Its free for starters.

2) Information that can be found here will be reliable because it has been 
selected by top libraries from around the world ie information of good quality.

3) It is not the project of UNESCO alone but of other top libraries from all 
over the world. Like The Library of Congress -one of the world's largest 
library in the world and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina or the New Alexandria 
Library,

This is interesting news.


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