In this regard this recent Net-Gold post may also be of interest. From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:54 am Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH: ISSUES: European Libraries Fight Google-ization <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5861>
to which Claude Almansi responded: From: Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:02 am Subject: Re: [Net-Gold] INTERNET: SEARCH: ISSUES: European Libraries Fight Google-ization <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5865> and along the lines of this kind of digitization project, Linda Bee posted about this resource. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:10 am Subject: EUROPE: LIBRARIES: RESOURCE: The European Library <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5863> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> =============================================== On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Andy Carvin wrote: > Here's the latest regarding France's challenge against Google's decision > to digitize content from US and UK libraries, from Rober MacMillan's > Washington Post column. He's the one who broke the story a couple of > months back.... -andy > Google Unites Europe > France's decision to create an online repository of European literature > got critical backing from five other European nations this week when the > heads of Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain joined French > President Jacques Chirac in asking for support from the European Union. > European media reported that a letter signed by the leaders asks EU > President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Commission President Jose > Manuel Barroso to coordinate the effort and, more importantly, cut a > check to fund it. The letter comes after the national libraries of 19 > European nations agreed to support the plan as well.... > What France -- and soon Europe -- is doing is a good thing. To > successfully digitize and place online the collected libraries of > Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Greece, > Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, > the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden is no small feat. > (Latvia, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus and the UK are still on the fence.) But > it is a public works project with the highest goal in mind -- promoting > knowledge around the world. We can only benefit by bringing so much > invaluable literature online. That's why it is so strange that the > European project was sparked by fear, a misplaced fear at that.... > <snip> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2005/04/29/AR2005042900432.html> > ----------------------------------- > Andy Carvin > Program Director > EDC Center for Media & Community > acarvin @ edc . org > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://www.tsunami-info.org > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com > ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
