The Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) presented on 21 April, the World Digital Library, a website which documents will be available unique cultural. Internet users worldwide will have unlimited free access to manuscripts, maps, books, films, sound recordings, and photographs of libraries and cultural institutions from at least a dozen countries.
was James H. Billington, head of the Library of Congress U.S. , who proposed the implementation of this project in 2005. In his view, "could have the salutary effect of bringing people together, celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures."
addition to promoting mutual understanding at the international level, the World Digital Library search expand the number and diversity of cultural content on the Internet, providing material for documentation, information and study for educators, students and scholars as well as the general public, and build capacities of partner nations to the project, in order to reduce the gap technology among different countries and within each one of them.
The site has been designed and prepared by a team from the Library of Congress, which received technical assistance from the Library of Alexandria (Egypt). Be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, English, Portuguese and Russian, but will be contained in many other languages. All items are accompanied by descriptions and some of them will be featured in videos by librarians and archivists specialized so that users can place their context.
Digital Libraries in Spain
In recent years, many institutions have chosen to digitize millions of documents and, thus, they were accessible all. In January last year, the Ministry of Culture announced the creation of the Hispanic Digital Library, a joint project of the Libraries European National form a common virtual library called TEL, The European Library. For free you can access more than 10,000 works from the National Library among which the Beatus of Liebana, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Poema del Cid, Leonardo codices, or the drawings of Velazquez and Goya.
figured, well, a first step towards the establishment of the European Digital Library , called Europeana, which came to light last November. This virtual museum driven by Brussels in 2006 contained more than two million books, pictures and videos from around the continent.
For its part, the Cervantes Institute in 1999 launched the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes and in ten years more than 650 million visitors have visited your pages. In addition, it will advance the work begun this year to incorporate the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes to the so-called Web 2.0, which has required a new computing architecture and construction of new content management services.
In the case of Castilla la Mancha, in another post reporting on the application of digital collections in the Digital Library Castilla la Mancha .
In recent years, many institutions have chosen to digitize millions of documents and, thus, they were accessible all. In January last year, the Ministry of Culture announced the creation of the Hispanic Digital Library, a joint project of the Libraries European National form a common virtual library called TEL, The European Library. For free you can access more than 10,000 works from the National Library among which the Beatus of Liebana, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Poema del Cid, Leonardo codices, or the drawings of Velazquez and Goya.
figured, well, a first step towards the establishment of the European Digital Library , called Europeana, which came to light last November. This virtual museum driven by Brussels in 2006 contained more than two million books, pictures and videos from around the continent.
For its part, the Cervantes Institute in 1999 launched the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes and in ten years more than 650 million visitors have visited your pages. In addition, it will advance the work begun this year to incorporate the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes to the so-called Web 2.0, which has required a new computing architecture and construction of new content management services.
In the case of Castilla la Mancha, in another post reporting on the application of digital collections in the Digital Library Castilla la Mancha .
Given the importance that the use of libraries by students at the University of Castilla La Mancha are some excerpts of the interview Infocampus (monthly publication of scholarly information UCLM) makes the Director of the University Library, D. Anthony Galla-Luis Galan
"Our library is leading the national rankings and, more recently, is number 13 of 54 in bibliographic "."... and is a pioneer in adapting to Bologna .
"Our main effort is aimed at transforming library services in what has been called Resource Centers for Learning and Research (Crais) "(...). We are preparing to offer new services, classroom mentoring, self-learning, language or rooms working in groups. "
"Our objective is to provide the students access to electronic information, step favoring the extension of services beyond the library."
"BUCLM Since we are working on an ambitious project, closely linked with the technological resources (...) will be the creation of so-called institutional repository, ie a large database containing all open access research results and other relevant information generated by the university. "
Link to full text in pdf magazine (the article is on pages 14 and 15) http://www.uclm.es/gabinete/archivos/infocampus/112.pdf
More information:
UNESCO Portal
World Digital Library
Hispanic Digital Library
European Digital Library
Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes
More information:
UNESCO Portal
World Digital Library
Hispanic Digital Library
European Digital Library
Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes
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