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Friday, 9 May 2014

World Digital Library (www.wdl.org)

On a Sunday, Opamp surfed the databases searching for the papers with keywords Information Retrieval. After downloading the suitable papers,Opamp  created new folder and saved those papers. There, got the paper titled Library Goes Mobile. As the paper is scanned, the whole page can be seen. The paper is from the journal named School Library Journal, issued in May, 2009. There is a tip, site of the month, on same page of the paper, which is one-third of the page on left side. It is written about a site called World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/.

Fig. The screenshot of World Digital Library (WDL) www.wdl.org

The tip said:

The WDL (world digital library) has the collections from all over the world in which the viewers can access manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, audio, and photographs that relate to the history and culture of the 193 member countries of UNESCO. WDL provides a global context.

The writer of the tip is Kathy Ishizuka.

After reading that tip, Opamp typed www.wdl.org in address bar and browsed the site. The home page shows the world map which describes the resources available in the digital library.

On September 14, 2009, there were 1208 collections in total from 8000 BC to 2009 AD.

On September 18, 2011, while rewriting this article for Sites-Intro, there are 2526 collections in total from 8000 BC to 2010 AD. 




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