Library Data It’s not just about the content either. These


new initiatives mark the start of a new phase of cooperation in the cultural world, where institutions of all shapes and sizes are uniting to share knowledge and resources, with the aim of creating a better service for everyone. Just as Google Art hopes to extend its project


beyond the 17 original participants, Europeana Libraries is a collaboration between the main research library organisations – LIBER, CERL and CENL – to create a service for researchers across Europe that also delivers content to Europeana. In two years, our 19 original participants will blossom into a thriving network of many more libraries across Europe. As we stand on the threshold of a new


stage of cultural development, words written over 100 years ago come to mind: ‘A finished museum is a dead museum,’ said George Brown Goode, who served as assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s. If the current pace of change and innovation is any indication, our cultural institutions are far from finished. On the contrary, they’re more alive than ever.


Friedel Grant is PR officer of The European Library


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The library of the Hungarian Parliament, one of those participating in the Europeana Libraries scheme


These new initiatives mark the start of a new phase of cooperation in the cultural world, where institutions of all shapes and sizes are uniting to share knowledge and resources


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