The Wellcome Library has announced the launch of an ambitious digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections, including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar:
“Creation of the Wellcome Digital Library will throw open the doors of the Wellcome Library and its unique collections to a worldwide audience …
Part of the 8 million page newspaper project of the Dutch National Library are WWII propaganda folios by the Nazis. This has sparked a discussion in the Netherlands whether making these accessible online may be liable to prosecution. Edwin Klijn comments on the matter on television.
Teil des 8 Millionen Zeitungsseiten Projekts der Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Niederlande sind auch nazisitische Propagandablätter. In den Niederlanden steht nun zur Diskussion, ob das Onlinstellen dieser Zeitungen möglicherweise strafbar ist. In diesem kurzen Stück bei rtl4 stellt sich Edwin Klijn der Frage.
via Googleblog:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html
… it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.” We’re not going to count what library scientists call “works,” those elusive “distinct intellectual or artistic creations.” It makes sense to consider all editions of “Hamlet” separately, as we would like to distinguish between — and scan — books containing, for example, different forewords and commentaries …
Hamburg – Gothenburg August 2010
CCS’s Digital Library Quest is a scavenger hunt through digital libraries around the globe.
The treasure seeker has to solve three enigmas to find the words that are necessary for the solution. The “treasure map” will be available on stand C511 from August 10 – 15 on the IFLA congress and exhibition and online on the CCS website from August 16.
Have Fun and good luck!
The CCS Digital Library Quest team