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The number of visitors has increased by 60% in just four months. Spain has greatly contributed to this rise. More info... |
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Discover the buildings of the National libraries of Europe. More info... Keep up to date with the latest developments in the community of the National libraries of Europe. More info... |
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| The editorial content of this Newsletter was gathered with the kind cooperation of Cristina Magliano, from the ICCU - Italy, Genevieve Clavel from the Swiss National Library, Maja Žumer from the National Library of Slovenia and Dulce Maria Fernandes G. Fontes from the National Library of Portugal. |
| EDITORIAL - January February 2008 |
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This issue features an interview with Cristina Magliano from the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (ICCU), and an In Depth editorial dedicated to multilingualism on The European Library portal. We also report on the TELplus Work Package 1 workshop in Paris, on Europeana and The European Library Advisory Board. |
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| IN FOCUS: Cristina Magliano - ICCU - Italy |
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| IN DEPTH: Towards Multilingual "Search & Result" |
We asked Genevieve Clavel from the Swiss National Library and Maja Žumer from the National Library of Slovenia to help us understand the complexity behind multi-lingual searching. More info... |
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TELPLUS OCR-ING WORKSHOP IN PARIS
The French National Library (BnF) hosted a TELplus workshop on good practices in OCRing on the 28-29 of January 2008 in Paris. The TELplus Work Package 1 aims at making 20 millions OCRed pages of digitised images available via the national library portals and The European Library. More info... EUROPEANA, UNIQUE ACCESS TO THE DIGITISED RESOURCES OF EUROPE The test website of the European digital library, branded Europeana, will bring together millions of digitised resources from Europe’s archives, museums, libraries and audio-visual collections through a single portal. The site model was demonstrated to holders of digital content, including curators, archivists, publishers and librarians in Frankfurt on February 1st, 2008. More info... USER ADVISORY BOARD INTRODUCTION The European Library has set up an Advisory Board to help the Office improve The European Library portal readability and understanding. More info... STATS & FACTS The European Library website broke all records in January! The portal had never been visited by so many viewers! The number of visitors has increased by 60% in just four months. Spain has greatly contributed to this rise. Several improvements on the portal have led to this record; for example, the introduction of the new Libraries section based on a European map access. Generally, the increase of non-English content has had very beneficial effects; the Czech Rare Books page in particular has become increasingly successful. More info... |
| PARTNERS UPDATE: The BNP - Portugal |
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| JOBS & CAREERS |
Desperately seeking highly motivated employees. The European Library Office has 2 jobs to fill: Are you interested? Do you know the person who wants to work on one of the most exciting projects in the cultural heritage area ever? Are you allowed a secondment? The jobs are based at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands. Interested? Then click on this link and send us your CV. |
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The European Library Newsletter has adopted a new format; we invite you to circulate it in its user-friendly form to anyone you think may be interested. The newsletter facelift was adopted following the growing amount of registrations and, more generally, the interest in our ‘In Focus’ interviews and in the community of the national libraries of Europe.
The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (ICCU) is one of the founders of The European Library. As such, it has an excellent track record in partnerships and has considerable experience to pass on to new 
One of The European Library’s objectives is to provide information in all partners native languages; this means having the portal interface translated in all full members’ languages. It also implies a more ambitious target that is to extend the multilingual capabilities of the portal; in other words, provide a language understanding of queries and return the appropriate search results in the same language. 
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