News :: Press pack : launch of European Digital Library "Europeana"
Now Online: "Europeana", Europe's Digital Library
(20/11/2008) Europeana, Europe’s multimedia online library opens to the public today. At www.europeana.eu, Internet users around the world can now access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States. Europeana opens up new ways of exploring Europe’s heritage: anyone interested in literature, art, science, politics, history, architecture, music or cinema will have free and fast access to Europe's greatest collections and masterpieces in a single virtual library through a web portal available in all EU languages. But this is just the beginning. In 2010, Europeana will give access to millions of items representing Europe's rich cultural diversity and will have interactive zones such as communities for special interests. Between 2009 and 2011, some €2 million per year of EU funding will be dedicated to this. The Commission also plans to involve the private sector in the further expansion of Europe's digital library. In September 2007, the European Parliament supported, in a resolution voted by an overwhelming majority, the creation of a European digital library.
- Full press release
- EUROPEANA – Europe's Digital Library: Frequently Asked Questions
- Europeana website overwhelmed on its first day by interest of millions of users
- Examples of 'high-profile material' in Europeana from and/or relevant for the different Member States
- Factsheet
- Europeana website
- i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative
- "La bibliothèque numérique européenne: du rêve à la réalité"(FR)- Speech Commissioner Reding - Avignon, 17 november 2008
- Europeana promotional video
- Infoclip Europeana in English
- Infoclip Europeana in French
- Press conference on Europe by Satellite Timing : 20/11/2008 at 14:30 in Palais Charles de Lorraine - Participation of President Barroso, Commissioner Reding and Mrs. Albanel, President of the EU Council of Culture Ministers