Monday 13 August 2007

The European Library

The European Library provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. It allows you to search through the resources, both digital and bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.), of the national libraries involved in The European Library.Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing.
The digital collections of "full participants" are accessible through the HOME and COLLECTIONS pages; these are the national libraries of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with ICCU (the national central cataloguing institute from Italy).
The digital collections of Basic Participants will be included at a later stage; the 17 Basic Participants are the national libraries of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova , Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia - Moscow, Russia - St. Petersbourg, San Marino, Turkey, Ukraine and Vatican City.

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