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NEA Bookmobiles aim to promote universal access to all knowledge
In partnership with its corporate sponsor, Freddie Mac, the National Endowment for the Arts has announced that visitors to the National Book Festival in Washington DC on 24th September, would also be able to visit the Internet Archive Bookmobile – a mobile digital library that allows users to download nearly 20,000 public domain books from the Internet. Using satellite technology to enable the books to be downloaded, the Bookmobile also allows for them to be printed and bound. The Bookmobiles project has been overseen by Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation that was founded ‘to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.’ The Bookmobile aims to help promote the Archives vision of universal access to all knowledge. In addition to the one in Washington there are Internet Bookmobiles in India and Egypt as well. For further information about the Bookmobiles, CLICK HERE Bookmobile Project Coordinator at the Internet Archive, Beatrice Murch, said, "The Internet Archive Bookmobile affords people the experience of having a free book from the public domain, and the experience of this new technology that makes so much immediately available. It brings the public domain to life by transforming bits into books." Also on display at the Book Festival will be another joint NEA-Freddie Mac project, The Poetry Pavilion, which features 13 poets reading from their own collections and discussing their work. The poets have been selected from across the United States and represent a variety of styles, from formal to free verse, and participants include emerging artists as well as well-known masters. For more information about The Poetry Pavilion, CLICK HERE For further information, CLICK HERE
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