World Digital Library Planned

[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: David A. Vise]
The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone, anywhere with Internet access. This is the most ambitious international effort ever undertaken to put precious items of artistic, historical, and literary significance on the Internet so that people can learn about other cultures without traveling further than the nearest computer (even in Carthage, Tennessee?), according to James H. Billington, head of the Library of Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR200511...
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* A Library for The New World
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: James H. Billington, head of the Library of Congress]
[Commentary] "An American partnership in promoting [a world digital library] for UNESCO would show how we are helping other people recover distinctive elements of their cultures through a shared enterprise that may also help them discover more about the experience of our own and other free cultures.
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* Library of Congress plans world digital library
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