With apologies for cross-posting
The European Library (TEL) Newsletter
April 2003
The TEL project is pleased to announce The European Library (TEL) Final
Conference at the National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius on 24 September
2003, 2 - 6 p.m.
The European Library, TEL, is a pioneering collaboration between a number of
European national libraries. Created under the auspices of CENL, the
Conference of European national librarians, it will establish a
professionally designed and maintained single access point to selected parts
of their holdings spanning a range of collections in all the partner
national libraries so that the informed citizen in any country can utilise
the resources not only of his or her own national library but also, during
the same search session, the resources of any other partner national
libraries which may hold material relevant to his or her interest. This
discovery and access tool will be multilingual and it will support the
various character sets in use in CENL libraries.
Initially, the feasibility of this venture is being tested, with
part-funding from the European Commission, in a project in which the
participants are CENL, the national libraries of Finland, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
along with ICCU, the national central cataloguing institute from Italy. In
time it is anticipated that more and more of the CENL member libraries will
join the enterprise as full partners. In order to achieve this goal the
participants are working towards the establishment of mechanisms whereby a
common portal will enable access to the collections of the united national
libraries to any citizen via the Internet.
At the TEL Final Conference the project will present its results and give an
outlook for further plans and developments.
The participation in the conference is free of charge.
Conference language is English.
A registration form and more information about the programme can be found at
the project website: www.europeanlibrary.org, there "Final Conference".
On behalf of the TEL project partners,
Britta Woldering
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