Concerned that Google’s project to digitize selected holdings of major US libraries will give an American slant to available digital material, leaders of several major European countries have appealed to the European Union to start an equal European project.
Back in Feburary, I highlighted similar thinking from the head of the National Library of France.
Garrett Eastman, the solo librarian for the Rowland Institute at Harvard whom you might know from the Rowland Institute Library Blog, compiles an incredibly useful newsletter, Library News and Notes. The Web archive is linked from above.
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Wired News seems to focus more on Wikinews’ shortcomings than its potential in this overview of the project.
DanG explains Jimmy Wales’ involvement with Wikinews.