The alliance will aim at establishing common strategic approaches and projects to implement library-related parts of the Declaration of Principles and the Geneva Plan of Action adopted by WSIS in Geneva in 2003 and endorsed in Tunis in 2005.

UNESCO: Communication et information

The council said work would now start on further exploration of the medieval and 18th Century parts of the building to explore how it could be turned into a library, wedding venue and council services centre.

BBC: The Master's House. Photo: Herefordshire Council

This partnership demonstrates the Library's further commitment to working with the private sector to digitise parts of its collections.

ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works