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PARIS (AP) - Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library."
The appeal to European Union officials was signed by French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.
"The heritage of European libraries is unequaled in richness and diversity," they said in their letter. "But if it is not digitalized and made accessible online, this heritage could, tomorrow, not fill its just place in the future geography of knowledge."
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