EU to build six million volume internet public library
Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on March 03, 2006
The European Commissionis to build a European digital library able to display around six million books, photographs and films and available to all internet users by 2010.
US Internet search giant Google started an international race to build an online library when it announced plans in December 2004 to digitise books and documents from a handful of big libraries.
Since then, US Internet and software giants Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon have announced separate plans while France, upset that private companies took the lead, has pushed for the creation of a public digital library, AFP reports.
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