Wellcome Library's medical collection goes digital in Egypt

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Wellcome Library's medical collection goes digital in Egypt

24 Hour Museum [uK], 15/09/2008

 

A pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early

medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be

universally accessible for the first time. The Wellcome Library will be

making items available from its collection of rare materials relating to

both Ancient and Modern Egypt in digital form to BA for the first time.

These items will eventually become part of BA's own online library and

will also feature in the World Digital Library, a portal to cultural

content worldwide. The material from the Wellcome Library consists of

visual, documentary, manuscript and printed material in several

languages and will enhance BA's current resources.

 

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