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The European Library: Modular Extensions for Mediating Online Resources

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To stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of organisations from the New Member States (NMS) and the Associated Candidate Countries (ACC) in the activities of IST
This project supported the National Libraries of the ten new EU Member States of 2004 in becoming part of The European Library (TEL).

The main objective of the TEL-ME-MOR support action was to increase the potential of the National Libraries in the Member States of the 2004 enlargement as actors in the knowledge society. This should be achieved through promoting their involvement in IST activities in the EU research framework programme and by ensuring better access to their resources.

Specifically, the project extended the networking services offered by "The European Library" (TEL) to the National Libraries of the ten countries. "The European Library" is a portal hosted by the Conference of European National Librarians offering access to the online catalogues and collections of – today - more than 45 European National Libraries.

The implementation of the TEL infrastructure was prepared through studies on the technical and organisational status of the libraries and on their user requirements. An important activity related to this goal was to further develop the localisation and multilingual capabilities of the TEL service: cross-language access options, subject systems and practices to increase interoperability were analysed, and the TEL interface and metadata levels were translated into nine new languages.

Building awareness and providing an electronic information space for research partnerships was another TEL-ME-MOR activity, aiming at helping key actors in the knowledge society in the new Member States to use the opportunities of research partnerships and of a potential contribution to the shaping of research agendas. Methods used included linked websites in the languages of the new Member States, regional conferences, newsletters and a European conference in order to widen the impact of the knowledge network to other national libraries in EU, CIS and Balkan countries.

Project results

By the end of the TEL-ME-MOR project in January 2007, the National Libraries of all the ten new EU Member States were members of 'The European Library' and their collections searchable through an interface in each of the national languages.

The work preparing the new TEL-memberships also reinforced the partnership among the National Libraries and will contribute to future collaborations towards the goal of making Europe's cultural resources more accessible.

A Specific Support Action under Activity 2.3.6.1 of FP6-2004-IST-3. Die Deutsche Bibliothek (National Library of Germany) coordinates this proposal in which the national libraries of all the new member states of the EU are participants. Other partners will be the British Library, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Swiss National Library and CENL (Conference of European National Librarians). Indicative budget is EUR 1,4 million over 24 months. This will be the first serious attempt to develop the research agenda for the knowledge society in the 10 new member states (NMS). Objective of the SSA is to increase the potential of the national libraries and related national networks to promote involvement of knowledge society actors in IST activities in FP6 and FP7 by ensuring better access to essential European information resources. Specifically, the project will extend the networking services developed by TEL (The European Library) to the 10 NMS, investigate the state of readiness of their knowledge society actors to participate in IST projects and activities, raise awareness and establish potential partnerships through seminars, meetings and exchanges and provide strong multilingual web support for easy access to networked resources and for local dissemination. The impact of the project will be that TEL services will be available in all 10 national libraries with an interface in the local language, and that NMS participation in future calls for the cultural heritage and learning sectors will increase to 40%. It is also expected that these developments will assist NMS participation in many other areas of EU-funded research.

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FP6-2004-IST-3
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SSA - Specific Support Action

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DEUTSCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
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€ 149 424,00
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Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Germania

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