All-Armenian Digital Library to be created

YEREVAN, January 17. /ARKA/. The creation of the All-Armenian Digital Library has begun this year, the director of the National Library Tigran Zargaryan said Wednesday.

He said the government has assisted it in acquiring six more instruments for digitizing books and other literature, which will not only speed up the process, but also enable the library to start the process of creating the All-Armenian Digital Library together with its foreign partners.

Zargaryan said also that a number of Armenian cultural and historical centers around the world will be involved in the process.

"Our main partner is the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), which has a large Armenian center. We have also informed our partners from the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Jerusalem, the Mekhitarist Congregation in Venice that we are ready to send our equipment so that they digitize their archives, "Zargaryan said.

He said the process will continue for many years. The goal is to preserve and transfer to future generations not only the materials of the National Library of Armenia, but also the entire rich literary heritage of the Armenian people. -0-

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16:11 01/17/2018