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Rethinking the Digital Divide: New Developments in
 East-Central Europe

My proposal offers to take account of developments in the digitisation of out-of-copyright 
textual material in East-Central Europe. Taking Western European digitisation as the norm and 
indicator of directions, my paper will argue that digitisation in East-Central Europe is behind, but 
there is an increasing awareness of the need to make large-scale investments. The Hungarian 
case argues that it the National Szechenyi Library is expected to lead the progress, and further 
research will provide comparative data about the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on project 
description information retrieved from the site of knowledge institutions, as well as policy 
documents communicated and held by professional bodies, I will attempt to assess the shortterm 
developments and point at the pitfalls of these projected developments.