September 10, 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the National Library. Reporters learned that the National Library is now popularizing new reading channels, enabling citizens to access content from the National Library through their digital TV. By the end of this year, more than 300,000 Beijing citizens will enjoy this service.
[Snip]
At present, the National Library is cooperating with Beijing Gehua Cable Company to come up with new service which uses digital TV to deliver content. It is now on trial in some residential communities in Chaoyang District, and by the end of this year, more than 300,000 Beijing citizens will be able to enjoy the service. In the future, multimedia content from the National Library that is suitable to be transmitted through digital TV, will be broadcasted to 3 million households with digital TVs through the cable TV networks in Beijing. Many different forms of content will be made available to Beijing citizens, such as National Library Lectures, National Library Exhibition, TV reading, and National Library Treasures.
Source: CCTV
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 and is filed under Libraries and Librarianship, Technology and Internet.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.