Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Online library reaches million book milestone
>
> ,----[ Quote
>| The Universal Library Project is the brainchild of researchers at Carnegie
>| Mellon University, and has received $3.5 million in seed funding from the
>| National Science Foundation. The project has also received in-kind
>| contributions from the Zhejiang University in China and the Indian Institute
>| of Science in India that have been valued at $10 million each, and has more
>| recently forged a partnership with the Library at Alexandria in Egypt.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux.com/feature/123255
>
> Watch the references at the bottom. Microsoft is using the British taxpayers
> and government as agents of monopolisation by making old books (national
> assets) Microsoft Windows-only. Revolting.
>
It's important to make sure that the disaster of the British Library is
not repeated elsewhere. There's something ironic about the Alexandria
library getting it right (the ex-biggest) and the British library
getting it wrong (currently the biggest - well, most books anyway. I
think the US Congress one boasts longer shelves..!).
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