Online Library Wants It All, Every Book
Robert F. Worth,
New York Times,
Mar 02, 2003
This account of the digital Library of Alexandria being implemented in Egypt is a generally critical review of the project. Noting that few people have used the specialized software, and that only 100,000 pages of mostly medieval Arabic works have been scanned, the author casts doubt on the feasibility of such a project in the contemporary publishing world. But there is room for hope as the project gains momentum and begins to access other collections, such as the million volumes being scanned at Carnegie Mellon University.
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