The British Library is digitizing 250,000 books

The British Library, the famous national library of Britain, will be digitized and posted for free on the internet about 250,000 books, works published between
1700-1870, in cooperation with the search engine Google.
The first projects will be accessible to all via the Internet is a brochure for the queen of France Marie Antoinette and the plans of the Spanish inventor Narkiso Montouriol dating from 1858. The Montouriol had designed one of the first submarine in the world.
All projects will be selected by the British Library and everyone will be able to study either in the library's website (www.bl.uk) or the specialized service of Google (Google Books).
The cost to digitize 40 million pages will take over entirely to Google. The U.S. company has already signed similar agreements with more than 40 libraries from around the world, including those of Stanford and Harvard universities in the U.S. and those of Holland, Rome, Florence and Austria.
250,000 The selected projects represent "a great variety of books, pamphlets and magazines that cover a period during which occurred the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, the Battle of Trafalgar and the War of Crimea, the invention of the railroad and telegraph (.. .) and the abolition of slavery, "says the announcement of the British Library has chosen to give priority to projects that are not available free on the internet today.
"Researchers, students and other library users can access historical documents (...) to copy, share them and process them for commercial purposes," the statement noted.
The British Library has an estimated 150,000,000 a collection of papers, books, manuscripts, maps, stamps, photos, music, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages. Each time the site visit ten million people.

Posted by 9MOHAMED0 on Wednesday July 06, 2011