1. CDNL Meeting, IFLA August 2004 The European Library- What Now? from project to service

2. 2 Brief History Partly European Union funded project Project successfully completed Jan 2004 Conference of European National Librarians agreed to fund creation of live service. 9 Libraries guarantee funding for 3 years & Gabriel contributions from the rest Recruitment of The European Library Office staff 1 st Quarter 2004. Office set up May/June 2004

3. 3 From project to service Owned by CENL, funded by the national libraries The European Library will be live end of 1st quarter 2005 Until then it has project status within European Library Office It will be subject to iterative releases post launch – up to 3 in first year. The Full participants are the national libraries of Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland

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5. 5 Organisational Structure Full Participants The European Library Management Board The European Library Office Contacts Group Technical Working Group Language Working Group The European Library Contact The European Library Executive Group Basic Participants CENL

6. 6 Iterative Releases Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April May Jun Development The European Library Launch TestFixLaunch Release 1.1 Release 1.2

7. 7 The European Library at launch will have:- All 9 full participants having created access to a number of their collections – all fully searchable and retrievable Incorporated much of Gabriel User friendly front end – ergonomic navigation Use design agreed at Final TEL Steering Committee meeting Operational on KB systems – continues to share hard and software Will be multilingual : German, French, English but is looking to create translation tables for the website itself so tabs etc in 37 languages Will have a strong on and offline marketing and communication plan

8. 8 And it will be able to: Attract the informed citizen and researcher alike Provide integrated access to the combined resources of national libraries Allow for cross-collection searching Enable Collection level searching Deliver integrated results Give access to digital and non-digital resources Proffer information about CENL libraries

9. 9 Feedback From September the monthly newsletter of TEL, will be reincarnated as The European Library newsletter. To sign up go to TEL_NEWSLETTER@NIC.SURFNET.NL Thoughts on The European Library please email Jill.Cousins@kb.nl or talk to me here

10. 10 Thank you Elisabeth Niggemann Chair The European Library Management Group