An introduction to The European Library and the TELplus project

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An introduction to The European Library and the
TELplus project

• Sally Chambers
• Technical and Metadata Manager
• The European Library Office

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What is The European Library?

• The European Library is a free service that
  offers
• access to the resources of the 48 national
  libraries
• of Europe in 35 languages.

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What is The European Library?

• The European Library offers access to digital
• books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos,
• etc.) and bibliographical resources.

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A CENL service

• The European Library is a service of the
• Conference of European National Librarians
• (CENL). The aim of CENL is to increase and
• reinforce the role of national libraries in
  Europe.

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Vision Mission

• Vision of The European Library
• The European Library strives to provide equal
  access to
• promote the worldwide understanding of the
  richness and
• diversity of European learning and culture.
• Mission of The European Library
• The European Library exists to open up the
  universe of
• knowledge, information and cultures of all
  Europe's
• national libraries.

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www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org
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www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org
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www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org
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Pan-European service
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Beyond the EU
47 countries, one Europe
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Some Achievements 2005-2009 Growth
2005 9 National Libraries
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Some Achievements 2005-2009 Growth
2009 48 National Libraries
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Timeline
GABRIEL 1997 - 2004
TEL project 2001 - 2004
TEL-ME-MOR 2005 - 2007
EDLproject 2006 - 2008
FUMAGABA 2008 - 2009
TELplus 2007 - 2009
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Background

• A Targeted Project funded under the eContentplus
  Programme and coordinated by the National Library
  of Estonia
• Aimed at strengthening, extending and improving
  The European Library service as regards content,
  usability and accessibility
• October 2007 December 2009

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Key objectives

• Welcoming the National Libraries of Bulgaria and
  Romania as full-partners of The European Library
• Providing access to 20 million pages of OCRd
  full-text via The European Library
• Enabling the implementation of OAI-PMH across The
  European Library network

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The future
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The Changing Landscape
A CROWDED MARKETPLACE
EXTERNAL FUNDING
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Challenges
LIMITED RESOURCES
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Critical Success Factors
USER ORIENTED
NEW STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS
ROBUST SERVICE
Success Factors
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Product and Services plan 2010
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Product and Service Plan 2010
5 Priorities
Priority 1 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH LEARNING
COMMUNITIES
Priority 5 SUSTAINABILITY
Priority 2 COLLECTIONS SERVICES TOWARDS THE
USER
2010
Priority 4 FIRST CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE
Priority 3 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
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Priority 1 International Research and Learning
Communities
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Priority 2 Collections and Services towards the
user
Multilingualism
Exhibitions
Collections
Digital Content
2010
2009
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Priority 3 Strategic Partnerships
Research Communities
Professional Organisations
Political Organisations
Commercial Organisations?
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Priority 4 First-class Infrastructure
Efficient
Reliable
Growth of Central index
SEARCH
Multilingual
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Priority 5 Sustainability
SCENE
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Key outcomes for 2010

• A new look portal
• Establish The European Library as the library
  domain-aggregator for Europeana
• A first collection development strategy for The
  European Library
• Submission of funding proposals for further
  innovation

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www.Europeana.eu
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What is Europeana?
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Europeana the vision
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www.Europeana.eu
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Working together

• From 2010 The European Library will become the
• libraries-domain aggregator for Europeana

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Europeana Network
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The library-domain aggregator
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Europeana plenary
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Thank you!
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