17th of March 2008

User get their say in the development of The European Library

The European Library is pleased to announce the introduction of its Users Advisory Board. The members of the Board are drawn from across the international library and academic community. Their input will help shape the development and strategy of The European Library portal based on user input.

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15th of February 2008

The European Commission supports Europeana

Europeana will bring together millions of digitised resources from Europe’s archives, museums, libraries and audio-visual collections through a single portal. The test website of the European Digital Library was demonstrated to holders of digital content on February 1st, 2008 in Frankfurt.

The demo of Europeana and the video can be seen on Europeana Website.

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29th of January 2008

A step further towards The European digital library

Over 180 representatives of cultural institutions from across Europe are meeting in Frankfurt on January 31/February 1 2008. The event will be opened by Horst Forster, Director in the European Commission's Directorate general for Information Society and Media.

The conference aims at highlighting and discussing The European Library's role in building the European digital library. It is also an opportunity to discuss strategic, technical and semantic interoperability options between museums, archives, libraries and audio-visual institutes.

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9th of January 2008

The European Library and National Library of Serbia

The National Library of Serbia has been an active collaborator of The European Library.

1. Online Collaboration Between European National Libraries Since 1995 – Building Towards a European Digital Library, Article by Olaf Janssen for the SLA 2006 Conference, Baltimore, USA, 11-14 June 2006 (translated by Ana Savić)
2. 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 (translated by Gordana Ljubanović)
3. National Library of Serbia in The European Library project by Vesna Injac.
4. Behind The European Library portal: technical environment by Tamara Butigan.
5. Commission recommendation of 24 August 2006 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2006/585/EC) (Translated by Tanja Tasić)
6. Council conclusions on the Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation (2006/C 297/01) (Translated by Tanja Tasić)
7. i2010: Digital libraries (Translated by Vesna Jovanović)

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27th of September 2007

European Parliament resolution on a European Digital Library

The European Parliament emphasised the need for more books to be put online and urged the Commission to speed up the process of creating the European Digital Library.

According to the European Parliament Resolution "the project symbolises Europe united in diversity (and) contributes to the enhancement and strengthening of an authentic European identity" and could be built upon other European projects already existing (The European library, TEL-ME-MOR, Europeana).

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