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ecognition (OCR). Library professionals can find professional and technical
information relating to the BNF’s digitisation programme on the dedicated pages on
the BNF website: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/numerisation.html
Google Books (http://books.google.com/)
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne
The BCU, the first library in a French-speaking area to sign with Google, announced
in December 2009 that Google had completed the scanning of its pre-1870 out of
copyright books and that the majority of these 100,000 volumes were now publicly
available via the Google Books website but note also the caveats on the BCU website
(http://www.unil.ch/bcu/page73478.html).
Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
Google began scanning up to 500,000 volumes from the BM Lyon collections in
December 2009, with the project due to be complete within 10 years. In November
2009, following the French book trade journal Livres Hebdo’s successful submission
to the Commission d’accès aux documents administratifs (CADA), the Ville de Lyon
made public its contract with Google:
http://culture.france2.fr/livres/e-livre/Le-contrat-Google--Ville-de-Lyon-rendupublic-59237822.html
Ghent University Library
Google started digitising the Library’s 300,000 out of copyright books at the end of
2007. Although Ghent is in Flanders, the university was French-speaking until 1930
and its collections contain works in French as well as Dutch. More information is
available on the University library website (in English):
http://lib.ugent.be/info/en/project-google.shtml
Manioc: bibliothèque numérique Caraïbe, Amazonie, Plateau des Guyanes
(http://www.manioc.org/)
The Manioc digital library, initiated by the Libraries (SCD) of the Université des
Antilles et de la Guyane, offers free access to online resources on the Caribbean,
Guyana and Amazonia in the following categories:
Patrimoine numérisé (heritage digitised books, full text)
Images du patrimoine
Catalogue collectif des périodiques Caraïbe Amazonie
Audio Vidéo
Travaux de recherches (articles, cartes, communications, livres, thèses)
Etudes caribéennes (e-journal on Revues.org)
It thus complements the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).
Bibliothèque numérique RERO DOC (http://doc.rero.ch/)
RERO-DOC is the digital library of RERO, the Library Network of Western Switzerland.
It provides access to the digitised collection of books and periodicals of RERO
libraries, as well as to the output (electronic theses and e-prints) produced by the
institutions participating in the project, in PDF format. The content is searchable by
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