A Roma Journey, an exciting new web exhibition from The European Library

"Uncover the Roma’s rich cultural heritage with this ground breaking multilingual online exhibition. With just a couple of clicks, visitors can view a unique collection of books, rare manuscripts, photographs, paintings, sound recordings and videos from the world of the Roma. Rarities on offer include the first ever dictionary written in Romani-Serbian-German in a concentration camp, traditional songs and tales, the Zemfira postcards and letters exploring the experiences of one Roma family in Scandinavia."

• Click here to access the Press Release in English
• Click here to access the Press Release in French
• Click here to access the Press Release in German
• Click here to access the Press Release in Italian
• Click here to access the Press Release in Dutch
• Click here to access the Press Release in Serbian
• Click here to access the Press Release in Romani

The European Library celebrates the end of TELplus project

TELplus is a completed targeted project for digital libraries funded by the European Commission, and supported by CENL (Conference of European National Librarians). From 2007 to 2009 TELplus was the main research and development project of The European Library.

Find out more about TELplus through this brief final report detailing results.

A region's memory online: the digitized archives of L'Express and L'Impartial

December 1st 2009 sees the launch of the website enabling access to the digitized archives of two Neuchâtel daily newspapers, L’Express and L’Impartial at the following addresses: www.lexpressarchives.ch or www.limpartialarchives.ch. In this first stage access is restricted to the editions published between January 2000 and December 2005; those of previous years will be uploaded progressively. The complete collection of L’Express (entitled the Feuille d’avis de Nechâtel from its creation in 1738 until October 1988) and of L’Impartial (launched in 1881) will be available online by the end of 2012. The overall cost of the project is estimated at 1.5 Million Swiss francs, half of which has been contributed by the project partners the SNP Société neuchâteloise de presse, the support of the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire (BPU) of Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque de la Ville de La Chaux-de-Fonds (BVCF) and the Swiss National Library (NL).

More on l'express and l'impartial

Cultural Event in The National Library of Bulgaria

The National Library of Bulgaria presented The European Library and the TELplus project to researchers, librarians, media coming all over Bulgaria. For further information click here.

The National Library of Macedonia presents the FUMAGABA project

Media, Journalists, academics, researchers, librarians and students were the audience of one day presentation organised by the National and University Library of Republic of Macedonia [FYROM]. The role of the national library in the FUMAGABA project has been the major protagonists of this event, together with an enthusiastic feedback following The European Library presentation.

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