The world Numeric library is a Numeric library launched by UNESCO and announced on October 17th, 2007. It was officialized by a signed agreement with Paris, at the time of the 34e session of the General conference of UNESCO, between Abdul Waheed Khan, general sub-manager of UNESCO, and James H. Billigton, librarian of the Congress.

Objectives

The world Numeric library aims at to digitize and to place at the disposal on Internet documents of any nature and representative of the world inheritance. It must in particular facilitate the education and the research throughout the world. It must as give the opportunity to the Developing country to make known their inheritance in the same way as the developed Pays. The project fits more largely in the objective than with UNESCO to safeguard the “memory of humanity”, and constitutes the obvious result of former initiatives like Mémoire of the world.

Partners

To conclude this mission, UNESCO took as principal partner the Bibliothèque of the Congress.

The five other current partners are:

• the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• the National library of Egypt Dâr Al-Kutub
• the National library of Brazil
• the National library of Russia
• the Library of State of Russia.

It is expected that other public or deprived partners unite then with the operation.

The project functions in the six official languages of UNESCO (Arab, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian) like in Portuguese considering the implication of the Brésil in the project.

Source

• Communicated UNESCO

External bond

• Official site