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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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/