PARIS — A globe-spanning UN digital library seeking to display and explain the wealth of all human cultures has gone into operation on the Internet, serving up mankind’s accumulated knowledge in seven languages for students around the world.
James Billington, the librarian of Congress who launched the project four years ago, said the ambition was to [...]
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