France Launches Digital Library
Europeana, the new cyber library, will offer over 6 million books,
movies, and documents from across Europe, to strengthen cultural
diversity
by Helena Spongenberg
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2007/gb20070330_226098.htm…
The French national library BNF has launched a prototype version of
its contribution to a European digital library aimed to be one of the
European alternatives to US digitalisation of books and documents.
Europeana – as the cyber library is named – currently offers access to
some 12,000 public domain full-text documents but is set to have by
2010 over 6 million books, movies, photographs and other documents
from across the European Union countries.
The creation of Europeana is "for France and Europe an important
challenge and a great ambition to the service of spreading knowledge,
cultural diversity, keeping the value of languages and the information
that is the base of our shared identity," French president Jacques
Chirac said according to Spanish daily El Pais.
"We want to make it so that Europe is not entirely abandoned to an
American search engine," said Jean-Noël Jeanneney, the head of BNF,
according to French press reports.
US Internet search giant Google triggered an international race to
build an online library when it announced plans in December 2004 to
digitise books and documents from a handful of big libraries.
US Internet and software giants Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon soon
announced separate plans while France, angry that private companies
took the lead, instead pushed for the creation of a public digital
library.
Europeana so far also has the support of 23 public libraries in
Hungary, Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain.
Another European library project is also under way and is already
receiving co-funding from the European Commission.
The library is to be based on the infrastructure of an already
existing European network that allows access to digital resources held
in national libraries.
It also aims to display around 6 million books, photographs and films
available to all internet users by 2010.
The main difference between the two online libraries is the language
of the website itself. Europeana is in French while the European
Library is in English.
The Conference of European National Librarians welcomed the move
saying the BNF has "created an example of what the future European
Digital Library might be," it said in a statement.
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com
Thanks you for your response and suggestions Joel. I will incorporate
the romanization of the numbers as you stated. I am puzzled by your
last message however. As the list is public, I would like stated on the
record, that I am not the person who sent you a rude email. I am
grateful for your help and look forward to meeting you.
Gisela Kam
Geia sas!
I would like to announce the launching of my Guide to Greek Usage in
Cataloging website housed at
http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/greek/.
The guide (a first on the Web) is designed to be a central, one-stop,
resource for anyone inputting Modern Greek text. It is a modest effort,
with what I hope to be the most practical and pertinent information
needed to transcribe Greek bibliographic detail. The guide has the
complete ALA/LC Romanization table (alphabet and numbers) with
accompanying examples explaining the how-to’s and when’s of the rough
breathing mark; the Romanization of certain letter combinations; Greek
numerals in headings and descriptions, and a thumbnail “overview” of
Greek personal names for authority work. It has been an arduous journey
and I could not have completed it without the help of CoHSL, and a
number of people from Technical Services, and at the New Media Center at
Princeton. I hope it will be useful and I would very much appreciate
input from members of this list on how or what might be needed to make
the guide an effective one.
I also use this occasion to ask if there has been any further
development on the tour of the Greek collection at Library of Congress.
I have visited Library of Congress several times but never been offered
such an opportunity to view the collection. I also look forward to
meeting Joel David Dressler, my equivalent at L.C. Is the tour still
being considered?
Lastly, If a number of us who met in Athens for the GRN meeting are in
D.C. in June, perhaps we could meet to review where the project
presently stands and/or hear of any developments that have occurred
since December, 2006. I will be there, I note George Paganelis and Harry
Leich will too. I look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you,
Gisela Kam
Modern Greek & Romance Languages Cataloger
Firestone Library
Princeton University
June 25 works better for me for a tour of LC's Greek collections. Thanks
for the offer, Harry.
George
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George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
California State University, Sacramento Library
2000 State University Dr. East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361 * Fax: (916) 278-5917
paganelis(a)csus.edu
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos
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Any CoHSL participants who will be attending the American Library
Association conference in Washington, June 21-28, 2007, please contact
me if you would be interested in a tour of the Library of Congress
oriented towards the Greek collections. The best dates for me would be
Thursday, June 21; or Monday or Tuesday, June 25-26.
Regards to all,
Harry
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Harry, Thursday, June 21 would be the best touring day for me as I plan
to be on leave beginning June 28. Thank you, Joel Dressler
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Regards to all,
Harry
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From: Ulrich Schmitzer <ulrich.schmitzer(a)staff.hu-berlin.de>
Date: Mar 20, 2007 6:36 AM
Dear list,
the prototype of Propylaeum
(Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften) is now online:
http://www.propylaeum.de
This is a joint project of classical scholars (i.e. my KIRKE-website)
and German libraries (the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Muenchen,
the Universitaetsbibliothek Heidelberg - both especially responsible for
collecting books on classical antiquity) and a research institute
(Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut Berlin). We are still working on
the further development, but now present our first official version to
the public.
Ulrich Schmitzer
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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer
Institut für Klassische Philologie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
http://www.kirke.hu-berlin.de/schmitzer/ushome.html
GREEK MUSIC LIBRARY
The Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri" ( www.mmb.org.gr ) was
created by the Friends of Music Society to meet the needs of all Greek
music lovers. It makes available a large collection of information and
study material on music to visitors and distant users. Its collection
focuses on Western Music, Greek music from antiquity and the Byzantine
period to the present, Greek folk music, including the Rebetika,
traditional music from all parts of the world, and jazz.
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com
Any CoHSL participants who will be attending the American Library
Association conference in Washington, June 21-28, 2007, please contact me
if you would be interested in a tour of the Library of Congress oriented
towards the Greek collections. The best dates for me would be Thursday,
June 21; or Monday or Tuesday, June 25-26.
Regards to all,
Harry
