Accessing Materials from the National Libraries in Europe

The European Library

The European Library web service offers access to the combined resources of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced. Full Participants are the national libraries of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and United Kingdom along with ICCU (the national central cataloguing institute from Italy) and CENL (the Conference of European National Librarians). The collections of the Full Participants are the first to be searchable on the European Library website. Basic Participants include the other 26 European national libraries. Their collections will be included at a later stage. The European Library has taken steps to ensure that all EU national libraries become full participants by the end of 2007.