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Janie Tremblay

2012

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New Collection Gathers World War I Artifacts, John Charlton Jan 2012

New Collection Gathers World War I Artifacts, John Charlton

Janie Tremblay

It is no surprise that Europeana, Europe's online cultural archive, will be commemorating the start of World War I in 1914. With the help of eight national and major libraries across Europe, Europeana is ammassing digitized versions of relevant materials that illustrate the impact of the war into the Europeana Collections 1914-1918, which will be officially launched in 2014. More than 400,000 items will be digitized and offered online as part of this initiative, while personal material submitted from the public will be digitized and added to another Europeana online archive called Europeana 1914-1918. In other news, the European Library …