The Library of Congress announced a plan to digitize some of the world's rare cultural artifacts. They are also proceeding in Cooperation with Unesco on the World Digital Library text digitization project that is modeled on the existing American Memory project. The World Digital Library project was launched two years ago with a grant from google and technical assistance from Apple. The project's organizer's are currently discussing aliances with Nokia and Vodafone. Another article limns a less chummy picture of libraries and the major search portals. The New York Times writes that "Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases." They are put off by the restrictions imposed by these companies, instead choosing to work with the Open Content Alliance, which is the brainchild of Brewster Kahle, who is also the founder and director of possibly the best site on the Internet, the well known Internet Archive.