The company proposed to digitize the entire collection free of charge, and give the library an electronic copy of each of its books.
In one oft-cited 1985 study, lawyers who searched a 350, 000-page library using conventional electronic techniques were convinced they found 75% of the evidence relevant to the case.
Last year the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation applied to the Library of Congress for an exemption to the DMCA that would allow users to unlock, jailbreak and root their own devices.
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Electronic searches of different collections at the library currently require using several separate catalogs.
One part of the solution in the view of Archbishop Damianos, the monastery's shrewd and genial master will be provided by digitally photographing much of the library and making it available in electronic form at a soon-to-be-completed research centre in Greece, the homeland of most of the monks.
Stites said Monticello's keepers don't want to get caught up in the political debates about gun control, but there is a lot of community interest in Jefferson's real and falsely attributed quotations, so Jefferson Library researchers provide resources based on searches through electronic and physical archives of Jefferson's writings.
America's Library of Congress used the web to create an electronic version of an exhibition of manuscripts from the Vatican, letting an electronic visitor wander from link to link, looking at pictures and reading about them rather as a real visitor might stroll from corridor to corridor.
Mr Davies said when completed the new library would have an "excellent collection of books, electronic resources", information technology, WiFI access and learning and meeting rooms.
The library is collecting all items (whether originals, facsimiles, or electronic data) related to the entire life and work of Mr. Havel.
As an international foundation which supports library consortia in transitional and developing countries to negotiate and advocate the wide availability of electronic information, eIFL.net will not only identify issues in copyright relevant to libraries in developing countries but also develop a scalable and transferable awareness raising and training programme of activities about the challenges of copyright and related issues in the digital age.
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The main area where they have acted jointly is in setting up the California Digital Library, which drives hard bargains with the publishers of periodicals to license the use of their electronic versions.
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