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Type of site | Portal to the content of Europe's national and research libraries |
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| Headquarters | Dutch Royal Library, Netherlands" |
| Owner | CENL (a consortium of 49 national libraries)[1] |
| URL | europeana.eu/tel |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 17 March 2005 |
The European Library is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 49 European national libraries[2] and an increasing number of research libraries. Searching is free and delivers metadata records as well as digital objects, mostly free of charge. The objects come from institutions located in countries which are members of the Council of Europe and range from catalogue records to full-text books, magazines, journals and audio recordings. Over 200 million records are searchable, including 24 million pages of full-text content and more than 7 million digital objects. Thirty five different languages are represented among the searchable objects.
The content of the European Library was frozen on 31 December 2016, with no new updates after that date.[3]
- ^ CENL, Official Website of CENL. Accessed 9 October 2015
- ^ Singer, Natasha "Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race." New York Times, 8 January 2011. Accessed 17 January 2011.
- ^ "Europe's national libraries and CENL commit to collaboration and mutual support as they build on the legacy of The European Library: TEL services to be discontinued from 31 December 2016" (PDF). 13 December 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2016.