Video Report: National Library of Wales £1m War Records Project
Video report from the BBC includes a look at the scanning process.
Uncovering the hidden history behind an event like World War I usually means trawling through thousands of records at a library.
But a £1m project underway in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, will make all that available at the click of a mouse.
The National Library of Wales is busy digitising records into an online collection.
Watch the Video
Runs 2 minutes.
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About Gary Price
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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