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Nancy M. Cline, chief librarian of Harvard College Library, said at the signing ceremony in Widener Library that the project would help preserve rare and aging items in the collection and allow scholars from around the world to access the materials for free...
...When we first embarked on this project just a little less than a year ago, the scope and size seemed incredibly daunting,” Cline said, noting that the two libraries are a half-world apart. “But we realized we shared a commitment to supporting research and scholarship, a strong commitment to caring for heritage materials...and to [creating] high-end digital collections for the future...
...first three-year phase of the project will begin in January and digitize books from the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, which date from about 960 AD to 1644. The second phase will begin in 2013 and digitize Qing Dynasty books that date from...
...National Library is very ambitious, so we hope that through this project we can continue to get more funding from the Chinese government to do digitization projects,” Zhan said in Mandarin through a translator at the event...
...while the party's role in Chinese state media wasn't trumpeted, it also wasn't missed by human-rights activists and press critics who attended the conference. While the summit was billed as a nongovernmental event, David Bandurski of Hong Kong University's China Media Project noted on the project's website that Li was formerly the deputy chief of the CCP's propaganda department. The summit, Bandurski wrote, is "a naked ploy by the CCP to enhance China's global influence over media agendas," and the foreign media representatives "an audience at court...