Gabriel - GAteway and BRIdge to Europe's NationalLibraries - was the joint webportal of all European National Libraries. In total there were 43 national libraries in 41 countries (Italy and Russia have two). The website was available in English, German and French.
Besides practical information about the national libraries (access and opening hours, functions, history etc.) Gabriel provided information about for instance the collections, the online public access catalogues (OPACs) and specialised webservices of each library. Furthermore Gabriel offered a central search engine with which the websites of all National Libraries could be searched simultaneously.
Gabriel was stopped as a seperate webservice on 01-06-2005. Its contents have been incorporated into The EuropeanLibrary.org
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