23 Apr, 2009
World Digital Library putting human history a click away
Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|News|Online Database|Web 2.0|World Languages
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 [...]