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Poland 
Borderless Beskidy
The Beskidzka Library in Bielsko Biała participates in a program of cross-border co-operation with the libraries in Frydek-Mistek in the Czech Republic and Żylina in The Republic of Słovakia. 
http://www.um.bielsko.pl/mbp/

Library under the Atlantas in Wałbrzych 
Pursues a wide range of cultural activity, among others, the Gallery under the Atlantas, a part of which is Art Section - Book Gallery. 
http://www.atlanty.walbrzych.pl

Pomorska Library 
Exhibition and editorial activity, including The Literary Salon and the reading room of the branch of Buddhist and Far East Cultures Studies based on the project The Buddhist Book Project Poland 
http://www.bbpp.eu.org 
http://www.ksiaznica.szczecin.pl/

Śląska Library 
Has rich historic resources related to Silesia including presentation of figures of distinguished people of culture and art on its internet page. 
http://www.bs.katowice.pl/

Olsztyn Public Provincial Library 
Projects
http://www.wbp.olsztyn.pl –:

• BIL – Local Information Database
  With participation of the local authorities and public libraries of the Province of Warmia and Mazury, the goal is to create an Internet database including cultural information related to the region. 
  http://www.wojewodztwo-wm.pl

• Family Weekends with Culture 
  A project implemented in 2000, thanks to financial support provided by the Ministry of Culture, in co-operation with the local museum, other libraries in Olsztyn, and cultural institutions. 

• PLACCAI – Public Libraries as Centres for Culture and Information
  http://www.placcai.pl

Portugal 
Stories of Life 
Project of Public Library Camilo Castelo Branco and Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalição aims to contribute to better knowledge of the local history and heritage. 
http://212.55.147.59/historias_de_vida/INTRO.html

Serbia
The Awoken City, initiated by the City Library "Karlo Bijelicki" to celebrate 140 years of continuous existence of the City Library. It is a framework of social, cultural and scientific programmes reaching out to all sectors of the community including children and disabled people.
http://www.biblioteke.org.yu/sombor/english/grad1.html

Spain
Archivo virtual de la Edad de Plata [1868-1936],
A virtual union catalogue of approx. 60,000 entries and 5,000 images, comprising holdings which are related, even though they belong to 50 or more different collections, and can be located and searched through the internet as if they were one collection.
http://www.archivovirtual.org/ingles/primera.htm

Biblioteca Canovas del Castillo (Málaga)
Provides access via the Web to digitised images of local art.
http://www.dipumalaga.org/servicios/biblioteca/home.asp

COINE
The COINE Project is part-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. Running from March 2002 - August 2004 COINE intends to provide the tools needed to create structured web-based environments which allow content to be shared locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The idea behind the COINE Project is to enable people to tell their own stories. The Project's findings will assist the development of standards for structured deployment and retrieval of digital resources in distributed networked environments. Demonstrations will test the application in different cultural settings across Europe, including among schoolchildren and citizens' groups.
http://www.coine.org/

Digital library of Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca (FGSR)
On local topics which include electronic publications of interest to the community. To be noted for its quality and size. Set up and run by the Municipal Library - FGSR.
http://www.fundaciongsr.es/documentos/dosframes4.htm

Gonzalo Soubrier Local Public Library (Castuera, Badajoz)
Digital contents about local history, ethnography and gastronomy
http://www.biblio-castuera.com

Sweden
Kulturnät Sverige 
http://www.kultur.nu/

Kungsbacka bibliotek 
A good example of a library being a local culture centre 
http://www.kungsbacka.se/texter/kultur/bibliotek/starttext.htm

United Kingdom
Backstage
An academically funded site, which already includes some public library and theatre collections and offers collection level descriptions for all collections included and item level descriptions for about half of the collections to date. http://www.backstage.ac.uk/

Cambridgeshire Libraries
Cambridgeshire History on the Net is a collection of images and text which reflect Cambridgeshire as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century. 
http://www.camcnty.gov.uk/library/history/home1.htm 

Culture Online
Government body with remit to broaden access to cultural resources online. 
http://www.cultureonline.gov.uk/

EdWeb 
The City of Edinburgh’s community information website.
http://www.ebs.hw.ac.uk/faq.html

Familia
Family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland. Originally set up under the auspices of EARL. 
http://www.familia.org.uk/main.html

Leicestershire Record Office; South Gloucestershire Council; Sale Library
The consortium links three projects to create an internet based multi-media learning resource focusing on the impact of three key forms of transport: waterways, railways and aviation. 'Bridging the Years' - creation of the first commercial waterway in Britain; 'The Last Main Line' - photographic record of the building of the Great Central Railway, and historic and continuing social, environmental and economic impact of the line; 'A Century of Aviation' - aviation development at Filton and Patchway from 1910 to the present. The following website gives many such examples.
http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/glance.asp

Gathering the Jewels
A national project for the digitisation of learning materials in Wales, is a NOF funded collaborative project between libraries, record offices and museums. http://www.gtj.org.uk/gtj/

Manchester
Community information pages.
http://www.mcin.net/

NEMLAC 
The regional strategic development body for Museums, Libraries and Archives in the North East of England.
http://www.nemlac.co.uk/

NOF Digitisation Programme
Ambitious programme to create £50M available for the creation of online learning resources for delivery through the People’s Network, including public libraries. Large strand involves digitisation of local heritage resources called ‘A Sense of Place’.
http://www.nof-digitise.org/

Phil Bradley
Compares the powers of various Internet search engines. 
http://www.philb.com/compare.htm

SCRAN 
A digitisation project for Scottish cultural resources providing a service to education institutions.
http://www.scran.ac.uk/homepage/

SeamlessUK
Project funded under the NOF-Digitisation project to enable seamless access to national and local citizens’ information 
http://www.seamless-uk.info/

The Visual Arts Data Service
Aims to protect, preserve and promote access to the digital resources of various collections in the UK. While it is centred on the academic community, there is cross-sectoral participation. http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/

United States
Family History Library in Salt Lake City 
The largest genealogy library in the world.
http://www.familysearch.org

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