The World Digital Library

This far-reaching project began in 2005 with a speech to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO by James H. Billington, a librarian at the U.S. Library of Congress. This electronic resource will bring together human knowledge in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. The web site, http://www.wdl.org/en/ , is free and available to everyone. Designed to promote multicultural understanding and ultimately to provide virtually unlimited resources that include manuscripts, maps, musical scores, recordings, images, and other materials, you can already start to browse the collection.