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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA COOPERATE

Alexandria— Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ismail Serageldin will sign an agreement, Tuesday 3rd of April, at the Library of Congress outlining four areas in which the two institutions will cooperate in building a World Digital Library. ...

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“Boundless” Cultural Diversity Media Award

Enter the Competition: The Boundless Media Award, honouring cultural diversity and cross-border journalism, aims to improve the professional interplay and exchange of experiences of young journalists from different cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean region and the area of the European ...

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Our Place in the Universe in a Lecture at the BA

Alexandria— the Planetarium Science Center (PSC) will organize on Tuesday, 3 April 2007, a lecture entitled "Our Place in the Universe" by Dr. John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences. The lecture deals with the modern picture of the expanding universe and shows how its large scale ...

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The Internet Archive Center at Bibliotheca Alexandrina Expands Its Hardware Capacities

Alexandria— Following an agreement with the San Francisco team, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Internet Archive center has incorporated the second-generation machines for web archiving—the Petabox. The Petabox is a machine designed to safely store and process one Petabyte (a million Gigabytes) ...

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BioVision 2007 - The World Life Sciences Forum

Alexandria— A record number of world leaders in Science, Society and Industry, gathered in Lyon, France from 11-14 March 2007 to debate the role and contribution of Life Sciences to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDSs). Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, ...

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