Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU> posted to the "Discussion of
Digital Reference Services" group known as DIG_REF
regarding The European Library.
This post is not yet archived at this moment, but will be found at this
URL:
<http://digref.org/archive/Current/>
Quoting:
"Colleagues/
A Most Remarkable Service!!
The European Library
[ http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html ]
What is The European Library?
The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the
services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a
virtual environment in 20 languages.
This website allows to search through the resources of 30 of the 47
national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be
both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings,
videos, etc.).
Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across
Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is
constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47
collaborating national libraries of Europe."
End Quotation.
Many thanks, again to Gerry Mckiernan for posting about yet another
invaluable resource from his email account, amongst many others.
This is no simple site such as going to a site that say for example holds
a timeline of the internet. This is actually a database with a search
engine that has a variety of collections for searching.
you are searching in
default list of collections
maps & atlases, cartography
photographs, posters and images
portraits
childrens literature
digitized books
newspapers and periodicals
manuscripts
music collections
religion
scientific articles
thesis and dissertations
personal selection
all collections from:
[All Collections is a Drop Down Menu from which one selects from these
countries.]
Austria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland
France Germany Hungary Italy-Florence Italy-Rome Latvia Lithuania
Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Serbia Slovakia Slovenia
Switzerland United Kingdom
This is the basic search interface and there is an advanced one! This is
clearly not going to be easy for a newbie who has just learned about
Google, so I thought I would share some resources in addition to Gerry
Mckiernan's post to better acquaint those new to these services with more
information about them.
First this link will take readers to the coverage of this site from Gary
Price's Resourceshelf:
<http://www.resourceshelf.com/index.php?s=european+library>
This link will take the user to two posts in Librarians Index to the
Internet regarding the European Library
<http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?tn=1title,description,publisher,creator,
allTags,keywords,extra_words,searchableid&tv="european%20library"&ss=1>
A shorter URL for the above link:
This link will take the reader to Net-Gold content regarding this
resource.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/msearch?query=%
22european+library%22&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google provides an embarrassment of riches and possibly not all wheat
regarding this resource, so after this link to the Google web search that
leads to content levels that reach the ozone layer in quantity, there
follows some links to more specialized search source links to searches of
The European Library collections' content and to content about The
European Library. Please keep in mind that there will be false drops
amongst the content found by this phrase that may lead to additional
interesting but different resources than content from and about the
European Library or these false drops may be ignored.
Google
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-
11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the+european+library%22&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google News Archives
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006-
11,DAUS:en&um=1&tab=wn&q=%22the+european+library%22&ie=UTF-8>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Maps
<http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=nl&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=
DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the%20european%20library%22>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Images
<http://images.google.com/images?tab=li&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=
DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the%20european%20library%22>
A shorter URL for the above link:
[By the way, images of posters, charts, graphs, and guides that explain a
resource are part of that which may be found as images in Google Images
and the image search tools of Yahoo, Ask.com and other search engines.
Also it is a good idea to monitor use of image and video tools with
underage users, as the most innocent search topics can lead to
inappropriate content.]
Google Video
<http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=DAUS,
DAUS:2006-11,DAUS:en&q=%22the+european+library%22&sa=N&tab=iv>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Books
<http://books.google.com/books?tab=vp&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=
DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the%20european%20library%22>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Scholar
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?tab=ps&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=
DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the%20european%20library%22>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Blog Search
<http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?tab=pb&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=
DAUS%2CDAUS%3A2006-11%2CDAUS%3Aen&q=%22the%20european%20library%22>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Google Groups
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rls=DAUS,DAUS:
2006-11,DAUS:en&q=%22the%20european%20library%22&sa=N&tab=bg>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Scirus
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=%22The+European+Library%
22+&ds=jnl&ds=nom&ds=web&t=phrase&g=s&t=all>
A shorter URL for the above link:
The exact phrase:"The European Library"
Found:: :3,583 total | 12 journal results | 32 preferred web results |
3,539 other web results
Science Direct
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=
list&_ArticleListID=608060184&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=
C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=
54535680363ca72691a9e8ee8656a850>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Ask.com
<http://www.ask.com/web?q=%22The+European+
Library%22&search=&qsrc=0&o=333&l=dir>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Worldcat
<http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=%
22The+European+Library%22+++&submit=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
European Library
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from The European Library)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Library>
The European Library is a service on the World Wide Web that offers access
to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe. The resources,
both digital and non-digital, include books, magazines, journals, audio
recordings and other material. The European Library portal offers free
searching, and delivers metadata records as well as digital objects: some
free, others at cost. The global management of The European Library is
based on a consortium of 23 subscribing national libraries, all in charge
of maintaining and developing the portal services.
Contents
1 History
2 Plans
3 Search tool
4 External links
--------------------------------------------
Read more of the Wikipedia article at the URL immediately above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@temple.edu
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