INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL LIBRARIES

INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL LIBRARIES

Tuesday, June 15, 20102 – 3:30 pm

SLA Unit Sponsor: Social Science Division, International Relations Section

Underwriter: GALE GROUP/CENGAGE

To tweet about this session:

Social Science Division: #dsocSLA Annual Conference: #sla2010

All presentations will be uploaded to the Social Science Division website after Conference:

http://sites.google.com/site/sladsoc/

Ann Sweeney: Moderator; “Europeana”• European Union Delegation to the US in DC: Librarian, Webmaster, & now Senior

Communications Advisor: Electronic Publications;

• SLA Division Cabinet Chair; Social Science Division International Relations Section Chair; other SLA past roles;

• 30+ years’ career: Columbia University Graduate Business Library, US Defense Intelligence Agency, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Information for Business, National Academy of Sciences – Transportation Research Board (TRB), & public libraries;

• Electronic applications, reference, collection development, database creation, cataloging, abstracting, indexing, serials management, thesaurus construction, & solo librarianship;

• Undergraduate degree: Romance Languages & Political Science; Master of Science in Library Service, Columbia University;

• 2 married daughters: older—NYC Teaching Fellow alumna, taught in South Bronx & now Washington, DC, public elementary schools; younger daughter—returned Peace Corps volunteer (Benin, W. Africa)—development aid project director.

Lyle Minter: UNESCO’S World Digital Library

• Manager of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Consulting Section in the Knowledge Services Group of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, since January 2005;

• Master of Library Science degree, University of Maryland;

• US Department of the Army librarian at several installations in Washington, DC, metropolitan area; Head, Reference Branch, Pentagon Library, 1988;

• Library of Congress, 1991: Head, Government Publications & Periodicals Section; 1997: Head, Newspaper & Current Periodical Room, the Serial & Government Publications Division’s public service point;

• SLA’s Finance, Nominating, & Bylaws Committees; President, DC/SLA; 2 DC/SLA Board of Directors Awards; Chair, Social Science Division; elected Fellow of SLA, 2004.

Peter Brantley: Google Books Settlement• Director, Bookserver Project, Internet Archive—San Francisco-based not-for-profit library;

• Co-founder, Open Book Alliance;

• Board of the International Digital Publishing Forum—the standards-setting body for digital books;

• Significant experience with academic research libraries & digital library development programs;

• Previously Executive Director, Digital Library Federation—a not-for-profit membership organization of research & national libraries;

• Presentations on Google Books settlement in many fora, including US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, US Department of Justice, & European Commission's Copyright Unit.

• Contact: Twitter: @naypinya; email: peter@archive.org .

Doug Newcomb: SLA & the Google Book Settlement

• SLA Chief Policy Officer: leads SLA’s public policy efforts & also manages human resources;

• SLA staff committee member of: Public Policy Advisory Council, Diversity Leadership Development Committee, & Research & Development Committee;

• 20+ years’ experience in association management;

• Ongoing activities: monitoring, advocating, & lobbying on issues that will influence & shape legislation & regulatory proposals that affect SLA’s membership;

• Bachelor of Arts degree in English, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington; Master of Science degree in Applied Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Certified Association Executive designation, American Society of Association Executives.

The European Union

“Europeana:Europe’s Digital Library”

Ann R. Sweeney, MLS Senior Communications Advisor:

Electronic Publicationsann.sweeney@ec.europa.eu

Delegation of the European Union to the United States

The European Union

http://www.europeana.eu/

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SAMPLE SEARCHES

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Napoleon’s Handwritten Notes, from a Local Polish Library

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TRY…

•Martin Luther

•Gerard Mercator – mapmaker

•America

•Liber Chronicarum – 15th century

View different editions of the same work from different countries’

collections.

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All sorts of European Institutions:

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From EU & Non-EU European Countries:

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• The EU's executive body, the European Commission, has been working for a number of years on projects to boost the digital economy.

• These prepared the ground for an online service that would bring together Europe's cultural heritage.

• The European Commission's goal for Europeana is to make European information resources easier to use in an online environment. It will build on Europe's rich heritage, combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models.

• As of May, 2010, some 7 million digitized items have been entered into Europeana; by the end of 2010, that number should increase to 10 million.

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• The project is run by a core team based in the national library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

• It builds on the project management and technical expertise developed by The European Library, a service of the Conference of European National Librarians.

• Overseeing the project is the EDL (Europeana) Foundation, which includes key European cultural heritage associations.

The European Union

The EDL Foundation’s statutes commit members to:

• Provide access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a cross-domain portal;

• Cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal;

• Stimulate initiatives to bring together existing digital content;

• Support digitization of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage.

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Europeana Prototype Search Facility

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RECENT EUROPEANA MILESTONES

• May 10, 2010 - The EU Council adopts Conclusions outlining the next steps for Europeana. EU Member States agree to continue and strengthen their support in order to increase the number of objects from libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections accessible: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/10/st08/st08843.en10.pdf#page=2 .

• May 5, 2010 - The European Parliament adopts a Resolution on "Europeana - Next Steps," joining the European Commission in asking EU Member States to step up their efforts to make their cultural heritage available through the European Digital Library: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/parliament/resolution _europeana.pdf .

• April 21, 2010 - The European Commission sets up a "Comité des Sages" on bringing European cultural heritage online. Before the end of 2010, the Group is due to present innovative solutions on how best to speed up digitization, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/reflectiongroup/index_en. htm .

• January 28, 2010 - Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries: "Digital Libraries: Challenges and Recommendations for the Future": http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/hleg/reports/hlg_fina l_report09.pdf .

• November 20, 2008 - Launch of Europeana prototype.

The European Union

Important Points in the May 10, 2010 EU Council Conclusions

The EU Council recognized:

• The organizational, legal, and financial challenges for the digitization and online accessibility of cultural material, as well as for digital preservation, such as issues related to intellectual property rights and the need to find complementary funding for digitization, which could include public-private partnerships.

and recommended:

• Work towards a sustainable financing and governance model for Europeana as a common access point to Europe's cultural heritage, and ensure optimal use of the financial instruments available for funding digitization at the national and European level.

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PARTING SHOTS

• The current Europeana is a Beta version, to be improved later this year;

• An overhauled, new release is slated for 2011;

• Google Books & Europeana are in negotiations for Google Books to provide European content to Europeana;

• This may be used as a model for the public-private partnerships envisioned by the EU to continue Europeana’s mission.

The European Union

Ann R. Sweeney, MLS Senior Communications

Advisor: Electronic Publications

ann.sweeney@ec.europa.eu

Delegation of the European Union

to the United States

World Digital LibraryLyle W. MinterProgram Planner,SLA Social Science Division

WDL: An International Cooperative Project

Library of Congress

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from around the world

WDL interface operates in – Arabic– Chinese– English– French– Portuguese – Russian– Spanish– Documents on the site are presented in their original

languages

Home page

Locating objects

Object descriptions

Browsing by topic

Browsing by participating institution

Please feel free to explore

http://www.wdl.org/en/