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World Digital Library Adviser in Video Conference with Slovak Library Professionals
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| Library of Congress's Global Gateway Project. |
John Van Oudenaren, senior adviser for the World Digital (WDL) Library at the Library of Congress, on April 27 held a digital video conference with Slovak information resource professionals at the INFOS 2009 conference in Stará Lesná. The University Library in Bratislava, a WDL partner, has contributed items from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts. That collection is included on the UNESCO Memory of the World register, which seeks to preserve valuable archive holdings throughout the world. “There are a number of UNESCO Memory of the World items on the World Digital Library,” Van Oudenaren said, “and that’s the kind of material — special, unique, important cultural material — that we want to be focusing on as we move forward.” He said the response to the digital library on its recent launch day was “tremendous. We had over 7 million page views, 615,000 unique viewers. We had people [accessing the site] from every country in the world.”
