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January 23, 2006
Emerging National Digital Libraries in the European Union
European project TEL-ME-MOR has just released its first press release focusing on a survey conducted among the 10 national libraries of the European Union New Member States.
This research reveals significant gaps in digital research and development programs of those national libraries. It shows what makes it difficult or impossible for national libraries to be actively involved in research and development programs. The issues range from intellectual, financial and organizational to the management experience of digitized and born-digital content, the size of digital collections, application and adoption of international standards and technological infrastructure.
Full text of this press release can be viewed online here.
Full text of the analysis of the survey can be downloaded as a PDF file here.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at January 23, 2006 5:03 PM