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Our partners in The European Library play a unique role as national libraries. Each has an exciting story to tell and we are delighted to be able to profile the National and University Library of Slovenia in this video. Dare Balažic, an advisor to Senior Management for International Cooperation of the NUK, accepted our invitation to act as narrator.

"I am a member of the Editorial Working Group of The European Library. The Group makes an active contribution to improving the presentation and promotion of the NUK collections in The European Library portal and also undertakes vital coordination work for the creation of online exhibitions" says Dare.

"The NUK was one of the original partners in the EC-funded TEL project and was one of the Full Participants at the launch of The European Library service in 2005. Multilingualism was soon recognised as a key issue in the success of the service. Users’ expectations involve the ability to interact with the service in their native language. In order to fulfil this goal, I have been translating the HOME & COLLECTIONS interface and metadata into Slovenian. I also helped raise awareness about opportunities for cooperation during the TEL-ME-MOR project."

"The Digital Library of Slovenia is now a well established portal, offering an increasing digital content and services. Consequently, more collections have become searchable through The European Library service."

Our partners in The European Library play a unique role as national libraries. Each has an exciting story to tell and we are delighted to be able to profile the National Library of Ireland in this video. Katherine McSharry – Assistant Keeper, Services and Systems - of the National Library of Ireland/Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann (NLI), accepted our invitation to act as narrator.

Katherine McSharry tells us: "My role in Digital Projects also includes liaison responsibility with The European Library. During EDLproject, I helped to coordinate the work here that brought the NLI into The European Library as a Full Participant. Our entire online catalogue, including digital images from our visual collections, is now fully searchable from The European Library site. As we are embarking on major digitisation projects, the range and variety of digital content available will grow significantly over the next few years."

"Involvement with European projects such as The European Library helps to drive the adoption of those standards and protocols that maximize interoperability - and thereby bring our resources to the widest possible audience."

"Readers create the new value": this video is devoted to the 90th anniversary of the National Library of Estonia.

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