The European Library -European Library

The European Library (Tel) is a library alliance that is jointly funded by the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP). It aims to provide European researchers, students and the public with seamless access to European electronic resources.The library alliance consists of European national libraries, university libraries and other research institutions, providing a centralized digital library that contains European rich culture, history, science and technical heritage.

Tel's mission is to promote the preservation and utilization of European knowledge and cultural heritage. By providing seamless access to European electronic resources, it promotes the academic exchanges and cooperation between European researchers and students.The library alliance provides an online portal website called EUUPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY (EDL), which provides digital books, journals, papers, pictures and audio resources from all over Europe.

Tel also cooperates with other libraries and research institutions in Europe to promote the sharing and interoperability of digital resources.In addition, the library alliance also provides training and technical support to help libraries and researchers make better use of digital resources.

European libraries are an Internet service that allows visiting 48 European countries libraries and more and more research library resources.

The European library aims to meet the needs of the global research community. Our online portal website provides a fast and convenient visit to 48 European countries libraries and leading European research libraries.

Users can cross search and reuse more than 26,394,274 digital projects and 168,238,832 book records.These items come from institutions of members of the European Commission, from directory records to full -text books, magazines, journals and recording.35 different languages ​​are expressed in searchable objects.

Today's European Library is developed from many early projects.Its starting point was in 1997, when the Gabriel (portal and bridge of the European National Library and Bridge) project started to establish a joint portal of a European national library.At the basic level, the portal provides information about the collection and access to the online public search directory of each library.

Gabriel was later the Tel (European Library) project, which runs from 2001 to 2004 and created a framework for major European countries and deposit collection.The project provides some funds by the Fifth Framework of the European Commission.The National Library participating in the TEL project is Finland, Germany, Italy (Florence), Italy (Rome), the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom library.This led to the starting website of Theeuropeanlibrary.org on March 17, 2005.