Conservationists working in a new branch of the library still face the task of removing ash deposits between pages, repairing parchment volumes and vellum spines that split in the fierce heat a painstaking process that involves weeks of work on each book.

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Corbis wants to wrap lots of services around library photos, especially the potentially lucrative task of clearing rights to the pictures and footage.

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Another daunting task facing Mr van Betteray is safeguarding KirchMedia's huge film library and restructuring its rights-trading businesses.

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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) -- Hours after weighing into a task of historic consequence, judges and election officials in a Tallahassee public library walked away from a count of thousands of Florida presidential election votes.

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But, presented with an unfamiliar library of tunes in Google Music, our companions quickly turned to the rather more palatable task of selecting YouTube highlights.

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