A new version of “Gallica” – the BnF digital library – was successfully launched a few weeks ago. The collection was expanded with more than 400,000 documents. Additionally ground-breaking functionalities have been added to the service.
Visitors can now listen to texts thanks to the text-to-speech technology, which means that all material digitised in text mode is available in audio format. All users and particularly visually impaired visitors can “listen” to documents, page after page. A private account can be set-up and RSS feeds keep BnF users informed about the latest documents available online.
Gallica provides access to over 820,000 digitised documents: manuscripts, sound material and music scores on top of the already accessible 100,000 books, 230,000 images and over 400,000 newspapers issues. These collections are all in the public domain.
Source: European Library Newsletter
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