[Asis-l] Pan European digital library becomes operational

[Michel J. Menou]

 From ISTresults, News

Pan European digital library becomes operational
Based on the initiative of the IST TEL project a fully operational 
digital library service has been launched recently, which is now owned 
by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) and funded for 
three years by nine national libraries and CENL. The aim of the TEL 
project was to develop a pan European distributed digital library with 
integrated multilingual access, based on European national digital 
collections, hospitable to other resources and widely accessible to 
Europe’s citizens. This was achieved and the project resolved some 
significant issues in usability, access to digital objects, scalability 
and interoperability. The TEL project has successfully mutated into The 
European Library Office, which gives access to 12,000,000 records and 
objects from the nine National Libraries of Britain, Finland, France, 
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Switzerland. The 
range of the collections is wide, with a strong emphasis on the Arts and 
Humanities.
http://www.europeanlibrary.org <http://www.europeanlibrary.org/>
12 Aug 2005

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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management
Adviser of Somos at Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org
Member of the founding steering committee of 
Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/
B.P. 15
49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France
Email: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr
Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php
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