National Diet Library to Digitize Around 920,000 Titles

The Japan Times reports that the National Diet Library will digitize around 920,000 titles.

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In Japan, the Copyright Law was revised June 12, enabling the National Diet Library to digitize its books. The fiscal 2009 supplementary budget allocates ¥12.6 billion for digitizing about 920,000 titles or about one-fourth the books owned by the library in one to two years' time.