Digital Library

David sanderson
News Card #6
Building a digital Britain.

The Britsh National Library and the BBC are currently reviewing a partnership on one of their biggest projects to date. The partnership will seek to digitalise the entire contents of the library’s publications which numbers some 150 million items which have been collected over the last 250 years. The BBC will also digitalise the entire archive of the past 90 years with a huge vault of almost 1 million hours of T.V. footage. “ Unlocking the wealth of content in the British Library and BBC archives is a great opportunity as well as an immense challenge" said BBC director general, Mark Thompson. In doing this the BBC and The British National Library believe that they are appeasing the British government by developing atruly digital Britain. The benefits for the nation and indeed the world will be untold with ease of access to materials for researhers and the general public.
Source: www.theguardian.co.uk 11th December 2009