Its chief executive Donal Blaney conceived the library project in May 2009.
"The World Digital Library project offers a brand-new platform for showcasing the diversity of the world's civilizations, " said Dr Furui Zhan, Chief Librarian of the NLC.
He led the development of the Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive that seeks to gather information about every book ever published in one place.
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Officials also planned to demolish the existing town library and sell the land, putting the proceeds of the sale towards the project, but the historic monuments agency Cadw listed the library which prevented the move.
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The library has launched an ambitious project in order to transform into a digital library.
But the Human Genome Project , like the public library, is offering similar services for free.
The new Digital Public Library of America (or DPLA) will be kicking off its first big pilot project at the Boston Public Library next month, and it's now gotten a big shot in the arm courtesy of the US National Archives.
Both sets of plaintiffs claim that the library component of the project violates copyright law.
The Newton archive is part of Cambridge's Digital Library project that will eventually showcase other important scientific papers, including the works of Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin and Ernest Rutherford.
The group is building a library and setting up a clean water project for two of the schools.
The main contractors on the project will be announced in January 2012 and the library is expected to be completed by August 2013.
The project will improve the existing library and town hall site, with new shops and council offices.
The internet behemoth's "Print Library Project" is an offshoot of "Google Print, " a program which publishers are not as vexed about--because work is used with permission.
Mr Billington first proposed the creation of a World Digital Library (WDL) to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a project could "have the salutary effect of bringing people together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking".
As for the Thatcher museum and library, this is a characteristically egotistical Thatcherite project at odds with British tradition.
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In addition to a regional virtual library network to which universities will be linked, the project will set up a cyber institute giving professors on-line access to training courses.
Those dimes from the keyword ads pay for Google's project to put millions of library books online.
Feeney never slaps his name on a library or hospital, since he can collect additional money for the project from more egocentric tycoons who gladly pay millions for the privilege.
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In recent years, thousands of the library's documents have been restored and digitally saved - it was a project expected to take many years.
Next up could be Warner Music, which Forbes.com has learned has a project in the works that could help promote and sell its music library directly to customers.
The Internet Archive has a competing project, which aims to offer a free digital library.
Noelle Nelson, the acting chief executive of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which is backing the project, said the settlers' first-hand accounts at the State Library are "unrivalled".
The three-storey community-purpose building, including a long-awaited new library, a day-care centre for older people and office facilities, is the first project to be developed as part of the Scottish Futures Trust Hub programme.
The Iowa City Public Library started providing free downloads of local music for all library patrons through its Local Music Project.
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With a grant of USD34.000 the project "Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyrights and libraries" will work with networks of library consortia, mainly in former Soviet Union countries to raise awareness, build capacity, expertise and resources in current copyright issues and identify how they relate to the application of ICTs.
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The John Peel Centre, in Stowmarket, is behind the project, called The Space, which aims to recreate the late broadcaster's home studio and library.
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To add another layer of complexity, many tweets contain shortened URLs, and the Library of Congress is in discussions with many of these providers as well as with the Internet Archive and its 301works project to help resolve and map the links.
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