UC Berkeley details plans to digitize majority of pre-1912 Chinese texts
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UC Berkeley's C.V. Starr East Asian Library is planning to digitize nearly 10,000 texts. The digitized materials will be available to students.
On May 20, the UC Berkeley C.V. Starr East Asian Library announced plans to digitize most of its pre-1912 collection of Chinese texts.
The project will make nearly 10,000 texts from the East Asian Library — which holds the largest collection of Chinese texts out of research libraries in North America — digitally accessible to students around the world, according to a UC Berkeley press release.
The project will be conducted in collaboration with Sichuan University, a public research university in China, and is funded by the Alibaba Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on outreach and accessibility.