Audio Interview with Bruno Racine (Chair of the Europeana Foundation Board)

In this interview, Racine talks about the role of a national library, about scanning and digitization, Google, the Lyon Library (France’s second largest), Europeana, the value added offered by librarians and other interesting topics. He comments on the changing selection criteria for digitisation (from positive, the 'best', to negative, e.g. deterioration, out of copyright etc). He also distinguishes the concept of a digital library from a mass of digitised material like Google Books. Listen to the interview here:

http://literarytourist.com/2008/12/audio-interview-with-bruno-racine-president-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france/