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.
"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.
The spirit of equality and open understanding comes into full view with the creation of this World Digital Library.
"UNESCO welcomes the creation of the World Digital Library which reflects the values and priorities of our Organization, " Mr Matsuura declared.
When combined with the free online textbooks at sites like Textbook Revolution and TextBooksFree, plus other course books from Google Books, World Public Library, and Project Guttenberg, M.
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".
"The way people borrow and read books is undergoing a digital revolution, sweeping both the library world and the publishing industry, " she said.
The director's future ambition is to create a world class research library whose primary specialisation will be the civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean.
Our acquisition of Marvel three years later combined Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and an integrated business structure that maximizes the value of creative content across multiple platforms and territories.
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The searches may be conducted on-site at the library or via an online catalog, which will be accessible via the library's World Wide Web site at www.loc.gov.
Until now consumers have been restricted to renting HD movies from on-demand services, including VUDU's library of over 1, 400 HD movies, the largest HD library in the world.
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Now we're bringing Cambridge University Library to the world.
Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library's commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone who wants to do research.
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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.
Inspired by the theories of Marshall McLuhan, he envisioned a series of domed theaters scattered around the world, each with its own programming but connected in a networked library of films and images that would have anticipated the World Wide Web.
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"As the owner of the world's largest licensed karaoke library and karaoke service on TV and Internet, the KARAOKE Channel will combine its expertise with the advanced capabilities of the Xbox 360 platform from Microsoft to develop the best in-home karaoke experience ever, " says Eric Boyko, President and CEO of Stingray Digital Group Inc.
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"A valid alternative would be to create a single library or repository able to search databases around the world - just like an internet search engine, rather than having one vast library or pass data between each other, " a Home Office spokesman said.
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Documentaries will fill much of the schedule, including those from the Participant library, film festivals and world premieres.
The Register is a list of library and archives collections of world significance, which was established in 1992 to preserve and promote documentary heritage of universal value.
And if the publication of Leary's archive speeds that process up by exorcising a ghost that still haunts LSD research, then the New York Public Library will have done the world a service.
In association with the Australian Memory of the World Committee and under the auspices of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the National Library of Australia will organize the Third International Memory of the World Conference from 19 to 22 February 2008 in Canberra, Australia.
The British Library and Microsoft are creating the world's first national email archive.
In a 1995 two-volume anthology of the best of World War II reporting, done by the Library of America, there are twenty-six dispatches from Pyle, one from Hemingway.
One casualty in the battle for Timbuktu is the city's library, which was designated a world heritage site because of a treasure of rare books and manuscripts about precolonial Africa, a South Africa professor told CNN on Monday.
After too many strange looks, the pair retire to the library to debate the intricacies of espionage, world domination, what happens when a spy gets caught -- and what makes the best cover for an agent.
Short of visiting every library in every major technology center in the world (and perhaps going even further than that), it is very difficult to imagine a scenario where a person can truly feel comfortable that a patent is truly valid.
The dimly lit stacks of a library are among the most delightful places in the world for the likes of us.
Instead of going to the library, they took morning day trips to Disney World, the Science Center or Universal Studios, where the families all had passes.
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.
It is also the most expensive public transportation in the world, according to research compiled by the House of Commons library, but it does have one of the best-designed maps in transit history.
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