Donation to the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
April 20, 2002
Press Release: pdf, html
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.
20 second movie clip 7.6MB quicktime 18MB quicktime (right-click to save to disk)
* 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
Available in the Library and over the Internet at
http://archive.bibalex.org
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