The Library of Congress www.loc.gov and the National Library of China have concluded an agreement to cooperate in developing the World Digital Library(WDL). www.worlddigitallibrary.org for additional information.
The Web-based World Digital Library,slated to launch in April 2009, is an initiative of the Library of Congress and other cultural institutions around the world in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Other institutions participarting in the project include major libraries from Brazil, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Russia, Serbia and Sweden and the US National Archives and Records Administration, the John Carter Brown Library and the libraries of Brown and Yale Universities.
The goal of the WDL is to represent major world cultures in a way that contributed to better understanding among different cultures, as well as to serve the needs of scholars and researchers. The project will digitize and make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials of many culturess, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings,films, prints,photos,architectural drawings and other materials of interest both to scholars and the general public. "A Glimpse of the Chinese Language" is available at www.rand.org free of charge via PDF online.
As a graduate student from China in 1947 with ten of my works listed in the Library of Congress in the fields of economics and China studies,I am so delighted to find out such positive US-China exchanges with global dimension. As a learner in economics,I wish to reiterate the aphorism that the ultimate success in economics is the contribution to be made for human happiness as stated in my blogs.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on Friday,December 5 2008
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