About EUR 200 million will be spent to set up the library, which will contain books, films and photographs. The collection will be accessible free of charge.
?Information technologies can enable you to tap into Europe?s collective memory with a click of your mouse,? said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding.
The Commission will also address, in a series of policy documents, the issue of the appropriate framework for intellectual property rights protection in the context of digital libraries.
For more information on Hungary?s digital library, visit http://www.irodalmiakademia.hu/
