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HOW ARE EUROPEAN NATIONAL LIBRARIES RESPONDING TO ´BIG DIGITISATION´?
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HOW ARE EUROPEAN NATIONAL LIBRARIES RESPONDING TO ´BIG DIGITISATION´?
In this paper on a fast-moving topic, I wanted to investigate how National Libraries can respond to
what the National Library of Wales head librarian Andrew Green...
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HOW ARE EUROPEAN NATIONAL LIBRARIES RESPONDING TO ´BIG DIGITISATION´?
In this paper on a fast-moving topic, I wanted to investigate how National Libraries can respond to
what the National Library of Wales head librarian Andrew Green has called `big digitisation .
1
Originally an undertaking developed in America from 1971 under the `Project Gutenberg’, digital
libraries constitute an area that is changing at a sidereal pace, part and parcel of what Robert
Darnton considers the most recent of the four fundamental revolutions in information technology
since human beings learned to speak, here the invention of electronic communication from 1969.
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The statistics I compiled in September 2008 monitoring the quantity of digital information in the
form of books scanned and held on national library servers are now woefully out of date (see the
Appendix Report for Task Force 3 of the European think-tank CLIOHnet2 on European Digital
Resources for History), but serve perhaps as a snapshot of gene
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