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Million Book Online Library

November 29, 2007 – 12:20 am

From Physorg.
The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.
All of the books are available [...]

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Library of Congress to Catalog Video Games

October 23, 2007 – 9:43 pm

From Kotaku.
According to The Library of Congress, video games are just as important to our historical past as literature, movies and music. And at the moment, the LoC is teaming up with major universities across the country to begin a 2-year initiative with the sole intent of figuring out just how institutions can preserve video [...]

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Venezuela’s Four-Legged Mobile Libraries

August 5, 2007 – 2:23 pm

From BBC News.
A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. The book mules known as bibliomulas are helping to spread the benefits of reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them.
Spreading the joy of reading is our main [...]

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