Austrian national library puts 600,000 books online

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Education

The project “Austrian Books Online” is a public-private partnership of the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) and Google. 100,000 books without copyright have been digitalised since 2010. The books can now be downloaded, read online and searched free of charge with the help of the online catalogue of the ÖNB. Director General Johanna Rachinger called it […]

Legendary studio’s archives opened for upcoming photo exhibit

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Culture

More than 100 photographs from the archive of one of Vienna’s most renowned studios will be on display at the city’s WestLicht (www.westlicht.com) gallery from next week.Organisers of the “Photo Simonis” exhibit said today (Thurs) the archive material of the studio of the same name was rescued when the company stopped doing business in 2005. […]