World Digital Library to launch at UNESCO on April 21

Launched by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and 32 partner institutions, the project was developed by the world's biggest library, the US Library of Congress.
Libraries and cultural institutions from Brazil to Britain, China, Egypt, France, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States contributed both content and expertise to the project to digitize priceless cultural material and make it available on the Internet.
The World Digital Library (www.worlddigitallibrary.org) was the brainchild of Librarian of Congress, James Billington, who attended the launch of a prototype website for the project in Paris in October 2007.
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