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The French move is aimed at countering US commercial interests and the hegemony of the English language (Photo: Pixie.Notat)

France launches Francophone digital library

The French national library BNF has launched a prototype version of its contribution to a European digital library aimed to be one of the European alternatives to US digitalisation of books and documents.

Europeana – as the cyber library is named – currently offers access to some 12,000 public domain full-text documents but is set to have by 2010 over 6 million books, movies, photographs and other documents from across the European Union countries.

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The French move is aimed at countering US commercial interests and the hegemony of the English language (Photo: Pixie.Notat)

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