(ANSA) - Rome, March 10 - Culture Minister Dario Franceschini
on Friday announced the creation of an Italian Digital Library
aimed at valorising the vast heritage contained in Italy's
libraries and archives. "Today I signed a ministerial decree
which will now be financed with two million euros for the birth
of a Digital Library," he said. "We have 101 archives, 37
libraries and the archives of all the superintendencies in which
there is the documented and photographed history of the whole of
the country, monument by monument. The Digital Library aims to
gather this boundless heritage".
Digital Library to be created says Franceschini
2 mn investment