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

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Lenny DiFranza
http://www.archive.org
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