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"For the first time in history, all the significant literary, artistic,
and scientific works of mankind can be digitally preserved and made
freely available, in every corner of the world, for our education, study,
and appreciation and that of all our future generations.

Up until now, the transmission of our cultural heritage has depended on
limited numbers of copies in fragile media. The fires of Alexandria
irrevocably severed our access to any of the works of the ancients. In a
thousand years, only a few of the paper documents we have today will
survive the ravages of deterioration, loss, and outright destruction.
With no more than 10 million unique book and document editions before the
year 1900, and perhaps 100 million since the beginning of recorded
history, the task of preservation is much larger. With new digital
technology, though, this task is within the reach of a single concerted
effort for the public good, and this effort can be distributed to
libraries, museums, and other groups in all countries.

Existing archives of paper have many shortcomings. Many other works still
in existence today are rare, and only accessible to a small population of
scholars and collectors at specific geographic locations. A single wanton
act of destruction can destroy an entire line of heritage. Furthermore,
contrary to the popular beliefs, the libraries, museums, and publishers
do not routinely maintain broadly comprehensive archives of the
considered works of man. No one can afford to do this, unless the archive
is digital.

Digital technology can make the works of man permanently accessible to
the billions of people all over the world. Andrew Carnegie and other
great philanthropists in past centuries have recognized the great
potential of public libraries to improve the quality of life and provide
opportunity to the citizenry. A universal digital library, widely
available through free access on the Internet, will improve the global
society in ways beyond measurement. The Internet can house a Universal
Library that is free to the people."


Mission


"The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster
creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in
realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library
with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available
to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is our expectation that
the collection will grow to 10 Million books. The result will be a unique
resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to
nationality or socioeconomic background.

One of the goals of the Universal Library is to provide support for full
text indexing and searching based on OCR (optical character recognition)
technologies where available. The availability of online search allows
users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably thus enhancing
student's success in their research endeavors. This 24x7 resource would
also provide an excellent test bed for language processing research in
areas such as machine translation, summarization, intelligent indexing,
and information retrieval."


Goals


"The primary long-term objective is to capture all books in digital
format. It is believed that such a task is impossible and could take
hundreds of years, and never be completed. Thus, a first step was to
demonstrate the feasibility by undertaking to digitize 1 million books
(less than 1% of all books in all languages ever published). This was
achieved in the 2006 - 2007 timeframe. We continue to digitize books at 50
scanning centers all over the globe to achieve the long term objective. We
believe such a project has the potential to change how education is
conducted in much of the world.

The first major project of Universal Library is the Million Book Digital
Library project. Typical large high-school libraries house fewer than
30,000 volumes. Most libraries in the world have less than a million
volumes. The total number of different titles indexed in OCLC's WorldCat
is about 48 million. One million books, therefore, is more than the
holdings of most high-schools, and is equivalent to the libraries at many
universities and represents a useful fraction of all available books.

A secondary objective of this project will be to provide a test bed that
will support other researchers who are working on improved scanning
techniques, improved optical character recognition, and improved indexing.
The corpus this project creates will be one to three orders of magnitude
larger than any existing free resource."



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Babu Jawaher Lal by Jawaher Jalaye Baqi
L: Urdu, Y: 1885, S: SOCIAL SCIENCES, 80 pgs

Babylonian And Assyrian Laws Contracts And Letters... by C H W Johns
L: English, Y: 1904, S: Fiction, 462 pgs

Babylonian Life And History Third Editio by E A Wallis Budge
L: English, Y: 1891, S: History, 167 pgs

Babylonian Magic And Sorcer by Leonard W King
L: English, Y: 1896, S: Text, 396 pgs

Babylonians And Assyrians Life And Customs by The Rev A H Sayce
L: English, Y: 1909, S: Fiction, 286 pgs

Baccalaureate Addresses And Other Talks On Kindred... by Arthur Twining
Hadley
L: English, Y: 1907, S: General, 230 pgs

Bachaoun Ka Akhbar Nr 21 22 Vol 4 Nr 17 Vol 3 by Munshi Mahboob Alam
L: Urdu, Y: 1904, S: General, 220 pgs

Bachoon Ki Parvarish by Sultan Jahan Begum
L: Urdu, Y: 1913, S: Applied Science, 327 pgs

Bachoon Ki Parwaresh by Sultan Jahan Begum
L: Urdu, Y: 1913, S: Techonology, 329 pgs

Bacilli And Bullets 1914 by William Osler Sir
L: English, Y: 1914, S: Geography. Biography. History, 249 pgs

Back To Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
L: English, Y: 1921, S: Unknown, 320 pgs

Back To Methuselah.a Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw
L: English, Y: 1921, S: Unknown, 396 pgs

Back To Religion by Eucken, Rudolf
L: English, Y: 1912, S: Religion, ? pgs

Backwards Or Forwards by Hanna Colonel H.B.
L: English, Y: 1878, S: Political Science, 174 pgs

Backwater by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
L: English, Y: 1916, S: Unknown, ? pgs

Bacon Bunyan Bentley by R W Church etc
L: English, Y: 1895, S: GEOGRAPHY. BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY, 655 pgs

Bacon The Advancement Of Learining by F G Selby
L: English, Y: 1882, S: Philosophy, 417 pgs

Bacon The Advancement Of Learning by F. G. SELBY
L: English, Y: 1882, S: Education, 416 pgs

Bacon's Novum Organum by Bacon, Francis|Fowler, Thomas
L: English, Y: 1889, S: Unknown, 653 pgs

Baconian Essays by E w Smithson
L: English, Y: 1922, S: Philosophy Psycology, 238 pgs

Bacteria by STAFF-SURGEON HERBERT GEOGHEGAN, R.N
L: English, Y: 1912, S: Biology, ? pgs

Bacteria In Commercial Bottled Waters by Obst, Maud Louise Mason
L: English, Y: 1916, S: Marketing, ? pgs

Bacteriology And Mycology Of Foods by Tanner, Fred Wilbur
L: English, Y: 1919, S: Biology, ? pgs



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