The spirit of equality and open understanding comes into full view with the creation of this World Digital Library.

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"UNESCO welcomes the creation of the World Digital Library which reflects the values and priorities of our Organization, " Mr Matsuura declared.

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"The World Digital Library project offers a brand-new platform for showcasing the diversity of the world's civilizations, " said Dr Furui Zhan, Chief Librarian of the NLC.

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The National Library of China is ready to work in close cooperation with the World Digital Library, continuing to promote in concert the prosperity and progress of all human civilizations.

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Mr Billington first proposed the creation of a World Digital Library (WDL) to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a project could "have the salutary effect of bringing people together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking".

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"The way people borrow and read books is undergoing a digital revolution, sweeping both the library world and the publishing industry, " she said.

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The Twitter archive might be its biggest and most challenging effort, but it's not the first time the Library of Congress has sought to document the digital world.

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The push, some three years in the making, comes in the form of deals with Warner Brothers Studios to restore and digitize the Warner motion picture and television library, the world's largest, and also create a digital post-production studio.

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