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Now Available: "The Value of Knowledge" is the Title of the British Library's 2009/2010 Annual Report
July 27, 2010 02:37
Three versions of the report are available:
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British Library CEO Dame Lynne Brindley Says in a Video Introduction to the Report:
Our mission is ‘advancing the world’s knowledge’ and many of our activities on the global stage involve international partnerships. For some years we have supported the Iraq National Library and Archives, and this year saw funding to digitise some 50,000 records from our India Office collections relating to Iraq as a contribution to the virtual reconstruction of their historic collections. In conjunction with the Aga Khan Trust, an exhibition of digital copies of historic photographs of Afghanistan from the Library recently went on display in Kabul, attracting much public and local interest.
The British Library and the National Library of China have worked co-operatively over a number of years, and I was honoured to be invited to speak at their centenary celebrations in autumn 2009 about the international work that the Library undertakes. As China invests heavily in digital library activities we are increasingly seeing new opportunities for partnership. We are also building a number of relationships with key library and archive institutions in India, working with UK Research Councils and a number of Foundations to enrich resources and access to them, and to support new research directions.
This year saw the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the British Library, the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, the University of Leipzig, and St Catherine’s Monastery in completing the virtual re-unification of the Codex Sinaiticus, the earliest surviving Christian Bible. It was made accessible to a global internet audience to huge acclaim, evidenced by some 100 million hits in the first two days of its appearance.
Dame Brindley continues and mentions the Business & IP Centre and the UK Web Archive:
We recently launched the UK Web Archive – a growing collection of thousands of websites, collected by permission of their owners. We have supported the Government this year in its work towards producing regulations which would enable us to collect and preserve for ever the UK’s digital heritage. We all hope for the completion of consultation and the enactment of regulation during 2010/11.
Source: BL
Hat Tip: Library Stuff
See Also: Figures About the British Library
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