The National Library of Australia is digitizing its collection of Australian newspapers which will be freely available online. The project, which should become available at the beginning of next year, is reportedly scheduled to be completed in five years.
And in other digitization news, Google is going to digitize over 800,000 books and manuscripts at Mysore University in Karnataka, India. "Written in both papers and palm leaves, there are around 100,000 manuscripts in our library, some dating back to the eighth century. The effort is to restore and preserve this cultural heritage for effective dissemination of knowledge," said J. Shashidhara Prasad, the vice chancellor of the university.
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