French Government and National Library of France (BNF) Announce New Partnerships to Digitize Books and Recordings
Note: The following info comes via an article in La Parisien, a French-language newspaper. We translated into English using Google Translate.
Here’s what we learned.
Partnership Number One
- Signed with ProQuest to digitize 70,000 French antique books dating from 1470 to 1700
- Agreement is part of the “Early European Books” project.
- Access: A selection of 3500 books, chosen by the BNF, will be immediately available via open access via BNF’s digital library Gallica. More books will be available moving forward.
Partnership Number Two
- Signed with Believe Digital and Memnon Archiving Services
- Plans to digitize 200,000 33 1/3 and 78 rpm vinyl records
- Over 700,000 tracks (in many genres) will become available on major digital music distribution services
The full text article is available here. Google Translate version here.
Here’s the official news release (in French)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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