Memorabilia
Nov. 2006
ICUDL2006 Egypt, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
till Oct. 2006
More than 1M books has digitalized!
Oct. 2005
ICUDL2005 China, Hangzhou
Sep.2004
MBP was funded by China Government in the mid of 2003, and publicly announced by CMoE in Sep.2004
May.17-19,2004
Fourth Meeting, US
Dec 5, 2003
Professor Gao Wen Visited Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and discussed in particular with Raj Reddy, University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics of CMU, Former President of Computer College of CMU, Co-Chairman of President's Information Technology Advisory Council (PITAC), from President's Information Technology Advisory Council. They signed Memorandum of Understanding on the China-US Million Book Digital Library Project , and affirmed the frame of Million Book Project.
Oct 25, 2003
The 1st steering committee meeting of Million Book Project was held in the Library of Beijing University. Zhao Qinping, Chief Officer of 211 Project Office of Ministry of Education, Guo Xinli Deputy Chief Officer of 211 Project Office of Ministry of Education, Professor Gao Wen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dai Longji, Curator of China Academic Library & Information System, attended the meeting. During the meeting, Convener Group of Million Book Project was found, and it is responsible for project planning and executing.
Jan 1st-8th, 2003
The 3rd steering committee meeting was hosted by India. The Chinese delegacy with 9 members led by Professor Gao Wen and the US delegacy led by Dr. Raj Reddy visited India partners and the President of India.
Oct, 2002
As an important part of Higher Education Public Service System of 211 Project of Ten Five-year Plan, Million Book of China-English Digitalizing Project (
Nnxš[) was publicized. State Development Planning Commission invested 8000 Yuan RMB in it as a support.
Sep 10th-12th, 2002
Doc. William Y.B. Chang, Senior Project Manager of International Science and Engineering Office of American National Science Foundation, visited Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhejiang University, had an informal discussion with members of China side, and made a high appraisal of technology platform and resource preparing of China side.
July 31st, 2002
Five persons led by Zhu Haikang, Deputy President of Zhejiang University Libraries, Zhuang Yueting, Deputy President of Software College, visited Network Multimedia Research Center of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences. They consulted with Professor Gao Wen and Doc. Huang Tiejun about resource constructing and technology platform of Million Book Project, came to common understanding on relevant matters.
May 26th-31st, 2002
India delegacy visited Carnegie Mellon University, signed Memorandum of Understanding on the US-India Million Book Digital Library Project .
March 22nd-31st, 2002
During the 2nd steering committee meeting hosted by China in Mar., 2002, the US delegacy with 12 members visited the Chinese university libraries involved in the project and the two technical centers in the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhejiang University.
June 25th, 2001
During the 1st ACM-IEEE Digital Library Joint Conference of Digital Library held in America, Professor Gao Wen, Professor Chen Qinzhi, as project member of US side, reported the plan and process on project, and attracted more than 300 representations' attention. So far, it is the biggest project in the world, and its system scale is over 25 times larger than American Library of Congress.
A Chinese delegacy with eight members led by Professor Pan Yunhe, president of Zhejiang University, visited US to promote Million Book Project. The delegacy visited CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), National Science Foundation and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Steering Committee responsible fro project planning, policy establishing, resource providing and environment construction.
May, 2001
Reported in paper on the project processing to Lu Fuyuan, Director of Ministry of Education, and got the affirming and supporting. On May 29th, during the international meeting of NIT2001 held by Tsinghua University, Zhang Xinsheng and Lu Fuyuan, Deputy Ministers of Ministry of Education, who represented Ministry of Education, formally announced the China-US Million Book Digital Library Project .
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