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6th of August 2007

The RSL becomes Full Participant of The European Library

The Director-General of The Russian State Library (RSL) - Moscow, Dr Viktor V. Fedorov, signed a letter of agreement with CENL on the 6th of August; the letter of agreement details the Full Participant agreement of the RSL with The European Library. Since July 1st, 2007 the process of implementing access to the RSL collections on The European Library portal began. Access to RSL holdings will start in 2008 with their "Electronic Library of Dissertations" collection covering 174026 documents: 33594 abstracts and 140432 dissertations.

11th April 2007

Learning from New Member States of the EU

The advantages of being a second rather than a first mover are apparent as the latest project of The European Library, TEL-ME-MOR, comes to a successful conclusion.

The aim of TEL-ME-MOR was to bring the digital collections of 9 countries: the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovakia into The European Library.

Full details are available in the following Press Release in English - PDF format   or in Serbian - PDF format  .

20th March 2007

Improving Library Services - Outcomes of EDL project Knowledge Sharing Workshop

Developing more web-services, recommending OAI-PMH compliance and using FRBR techniques in The European Library were all recommendations from the EDLproject Knowledge Sharing Workshop. While formulating practical actions to further develop the web services of The European Library portal, the workshop also proved to be a good opportunity for Edlproject participants to work with members of The European Library network in a hands-on setting.

The Workshop, organised by The European Library Office, took place in The National Library of The Netherlands. View the full press-release in English - PDF format   or in Serbian - PDF format  .

March 2007

The European Library introduces a mini library

The European Library has been developing a mini version of The European Library searchbox that website owners can easily install on their own site. It’s free and very easy to install. Via this mini library visitors of other websites can always check if a national library somewhere in Europe has digitised a particular item. It guides website visitors to great material – books but also photos, maps, images, music scores, paintings, films, etc. Quality and reliability are guaranteed because all content has been selected and categorised by Europe’s best librarians. Learn how to install The European Library searchbox on your site.

January 2007

The European Library, today and tomorrow - Presentation by Jill Cousins in Warsaw (National Library of Poland)

Document avaialbe in:

• PDF format  
• Power Point format (7.3MB)  

January 2007

The European Library & TEL-ME-MOR integration - Presentation by Olaf Janssen in Riga

Document avaialbe in:

PDF format in English  
PDF format in Russian  

December 2006
The European Library today …- Presentation by Jill Cousins - National Library of France, Paris  

September 2006
The European Library: contributo alla promozione di un portale europeo in Italia 
Article by Marta Benoffi for Biblioteche oggi – Italian magazine

September 2006
TELMEMOR final policy conference – October 19-20 October
"The Digital Future of Cultural and Scientific Heritage" is the topic of the TEL-ME-MOR Conditions générales Conference. TEL-ME-MOR was launched in February 2005, with the overall goal of raising awareness of the opportunities for New Member States (NMS) to participate in European projects, especially in the areas of Culture and Learning. In addition to that, the project supports the 10 new National Bibliothèques to integrate their electronic resources into The European Library. The conference presented the achievements and results of the TEL-ME-MOR project. It also provided a forum for discussion of the latest digital library developments in Europe and in the world and highlight future research requirements and formulated concrete recommendations as to how the EU and international R&D agendas can lead to improving access to our common cultural heritage. All presentations are now available for viewing and downloading at the official conference website!!

20 July 2006
Online Collaboration Between European National Bibliothèques Since 1995 – Building Towards a European Digital Library 
Article by Olaf Janssen for the SLA 2006 Conference, Baltimore, USA, 11-14 June 2006

1 February 2006
Connecting with users: Europe and multilinguality
Key-note speech by Dr. Britta Woldering of the German National Library during the VALA 2006 Conference, Melbourne Australia, 8-10 February 2006

1 February 2006
Research books its place in the library of the future
This document is also available in PDF-format

27 September 2005
Wasted Tax Euros?
Article from Panlibus (with a reponse from Bill Oldroyd of the British Library)

23 September 2005
EU member states v Google: no contest
(with a reponse from Bill Oldroyd of the British Library)

14 September 2005
Pan-European library information service launched