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Louise Edwards held a presentation "Library services for Europe: an overview of the landscape" at the Serbian Library Association’s 10th International conference "The World and European Horizons of Librarianship in Digital Age", October 2011
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Library services for Europe: an overview of the landscape
Louise EdwardsThe European Library
27th October 2011
My connection with Serbia
A British linguist – Studied Russian, Spanish
and PortugueseSpent 2 months at
University of Belgrade in 1980
1982-1990 Slavist at University of Birmingham– Centre for Russian and East
European Studies1990-92 British Council
Poland
Outline of my talk today
Evolution of the current European information landscape– The European Library– Europeana– Role Serbia has played in shaping the European landscape
Rethinking the European information landscape– Not only collections but a focus on the user
How The European Library and Europeana work together– Members of a libraries partnership for Europe– Supporting research communities
Conclusions
What is The European Library?
The European Library is a portal offering access tothe bibliographic, digital and full-text resources ofthe 47 national libraries of Europe in 35 languages.
Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)
Spanning the Council of Europe
Growth of The European Library 2005-10
The European Library 47 Members
Members of The European Library
2005 : Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, Finland, France,Germany, Portugal, Italy-Florence, Italy-Rome
2006 : Malta, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia,Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Denmark
2007 : Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Russia-Moscow
2008 : Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova,Montenegro, Romania, Turkey, Russia Saint Petersburg,Ukraine
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23
33
47
Current portal of The European Library
Multilingual – 36 languages of Council of Europe countries
Highlighting national libraries
Showcasing collections
Highlighting buildings
From federated search to central index
A range of content on Romani culture
Curated by an expert
3 languages – Romani, Serbian and English
Serbia plays a full part in the exhibition
Support to non-EU/EFTA libraries
Hosting meetings in non-EU/EFTA countries– 2009 Turkey– 2010 Bosnia– 2011 Serbia
Financial support to attend meetings
Highlighting content on portal
Technical supportFunding opportunities
Strategic Plan 2010-12: 5 Priorities
2010-12
Priority 1:
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH &
LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Priority 2:
COLLECTIONS & SERVICES
TOWARDS THE USER
Priority 3:
STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIPS
Priority 4:
FIRST-CLASS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Priority 5:
SUSTAINABILITY
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 national libraries of Europe and European research libraries.Users can cross-search and reuse over x digital items and x bibliographic records.To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
Source: Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland
Aggregation model of content delivery
Archives Portal EuropeArchives Portal Europe
ArchivesArchives
LibrariesLibraries
Regional AggregatorsRegional Aggregators
Domain AggregatorsDomain Aggregators National AggregatorsNational Aggregators
The European LibraryThe European Library
European Film GatewayEuropean Film Gateway
Film archivesFilm archivesLocal institutionssLocal institutionss
Flanders museumsFlanders museums
Culture GridCulture Grid
Local institutionsLocal institutions
Conclusion: our vision for the future
A libraries partnership that delivers real value to libraries in Europe– Shared infrastructure to save
money – Knowledge sharing– Working together to serve our
user communities A libraries partnership to create
a valuable service for Europe’s academic communities
The libraries community working together in Europeana
More information
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/
http://www.europeana.euPromotional video in
Serbian– http://www.youtube.com/
Roma Journey promotional video– http://www.youtube.com/