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cross-posting
The European Library (TEL) Newsletter
May 2003
Gabriel, the World Wide Web service of the European National Libraries, has
produced an online questionnaire in collaboration with The European Library
(TEL) project in order to obtain a better understanding of what users expect
from the Gabriel website, and to learn more about their online behaviour.
Please let us know what you think of the Gabriel service!
The questionnaire can be found on all of the five Gabriel websites:
http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/
http://www.ddb.de/gabriel/
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/gabriel/
http://nuk.uni-lj.si/gabriel/
http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/
There are 29 questions, mostly multiple choice, and the questionnaire should
only take about 5 minutes to complete.
In order to develop the service to meet the future needs of its users,
Gabriel and TEL would very much appreciate the assistance of readers in
completing the questionnaire.
The results of the questionnaire will be made available as soon as possible
on the Gabriel website.
Gabriel, the World Wide Web service of the European National Libraries, acts
as a gateway to the holdings and treasures of 41 European National Libraries
from 39 members of the Council of Europe.
Since the launch of the Gabriel service in 1997, interest in and usage of
the website has increased each year. The service was restructured and
redesigned in 2002 in order to meet the changing requirements of its users.
The new Gabriel service also takes advantage of the latest developments in
Internet technology.
In addition, Gabriel plays an important role in the development of The
European Library (http://www.europeanlibrary.org/). 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.
On behalf of the Gabriel Team and the TEL project partners,
Britta Woldering
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Robina Clayphan, Metadata Development Analyst,
National Bibliographic Service, The British Library
Tel: +44 (0)1937 546969
Fax: +44 (0)1937 546586
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