[Fwd: [archivists] Library of Alexandria in Egypt]

[Klaus Graf <graf _at__ uni-koblenz.de>]

Lenny DiFranza wrote:
> 
> Donation to the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt
> Alexandria, Egypt April 20, 2002
> 
> Imagine walking into a library, anywhere in the world, and having the
> full range of human knowledge at your fingertips-- in all its forms.
> Such universal access is now within reach because of digital
> technology. The digital collections donated by the Internet Archive to
> the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a step towards such an international
> resource.
> 
> * Worldwide Web snapshots
> * 1000 archival films
> * 2000 hours of Egyptian and Worldnet television broadcasts
> * 100 terabytes of data (100,000,000,000,000 characters) stored on 200
> computers
> * A book scanning facility
> 
> on the web at http://archive.bibalex.org
> 
> related pages:
> - http://www.archive.org/news/bibalex.html
> - http://www.sis.gov.eg/alex-lib/html/front.htm
> - http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alexandria_new/
> - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52028,00.html
> - http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010522/2001052239.html
> ...........................................................................
> 
> Lenny DiFranza
> http://www.archive.org
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