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LINKS 

International
Bertelsmann Foundation
There are two interesting papers on its website 
http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/documents/holt6en.pdf

eIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries
Aims to facilitate affordable access to electronic scholarly resources by libraries in countries in transition. Started in October 1999 as a joint initiative of the Open Society Institute and EBSCO Publishing. In its original form, it has been offering access to electronic journals, primarily in social sciences, humanities and business, in nearly 40 countries where the Soros Foundation's network is active.
http://www.eifl.net/

Denmark
Bibliotek.dk gives immediate access to Danish Libraries
Since late 2000 bibliotek.dk has been giving the general public access to the Danish National Union Catalogue. The Danish National Union Catalogue includes holdings from nearly all Danish public libraries and most of the publicly available research libraries. http://www.bibliotek.dk

DEFF (Danish Electronic Library)
Licensing consortium covering public and research libraries countrywide.
http://www.deff.dk/?lang=eng

FNG (Danish Public Libraries Netguide)
http://www.fng.dk/

Estonia
Estonian Library Network Consortium ELNET
Though predominantly a consortium of research libraries, its membership also includes two major city public libraries, Tallinn Central Library and Tartu Public Library. The consortium uses integrated library system INNOPAC and jointly and uniformly generates an electronic catalogue ESTER ( http://helios.nlib.ee/screens/mainmenu_est.html ).
Digitisation and electronic documents acquisition coordination projects, etc.
http://www.elnet.ee/

Finland

FinELib, the National Electronic Library, acquires Finnish and international resources to support teaching, learning and research. FinELib negotiates user-rights agreements for electronic resources on a centralised basis for its member organisations. Helsinki University Library, The National Library of Finland, is responsible for FinELib operations and development. The National Library cooperates with universities, polytechnics, research institutes and public libraries and is involved in key national projects. http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/english/index.html

Helsinki City Library 
Ask what you want – an idea for a radio programme. The Library is developing together with a small media company an idea to promote the professional skills of librarians. The basic model is to answer questions presented by phone, and to explain during the search why certain sources of information are used for this case and some others for another case. If successful, the programme will later be transferred to TV. 
http://www.uwasa.fi/~sukkula/einformation.php3

Viikki, Helsinki
Co-operation between public library and research library where a research library and a public library are located in the same building.
http://helix.helsinki.fi/infokeskus/english/index.html

ELEF (Electronic Library of Eastern Finland)
Projects are carried out in all the regions of Eastern Finland. The main object of these projects is to improve electronic and information services available on the web and to offer better access to these services. http://www.elefkirjastot.net/eng/index.html

The National Repository Library
Receives and stores material transferred from other libraries and offers the material for the use of other libraries. It serves university and special libraries as well as public libraries and acts as a connecting link in the library network.
http://www.nrl.fi/english/nrl01.htm

Germany
Augsburg 
A literary campaign is organised in Augsburg each year, concentrating in one author each time. The partners are the Cultural Office of Augsburg, the Augsburg libraries, bookshops, schools and even restaurants. 
http://www.augsburg.de/Seiten/augsburg_d/frames/kbuero.shtml 
(in German)

BINE (Library+Internet = Navigation+Indexing). 
This project aimed also to involve other German public libraries in creating a virtual Internet library like the FNG in Denmark, and the Internet Public Library in the USA. Renamed ILEKS (Internet service by subject librarians). Beside Bremen, only six other public libraries form the ILEKS-consortium. http://www.stadtbibliothek-bremen.de/bine/start.html

Deutsche Internetbibliothek
This new project, called the “German Internet Library” was launched on January 1, 2002. http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/project.cfm?lan=de&nid=581&aid=5383

Digital Library NRW 
A cooperative pilot scheme together with the public libraries of Cologne, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. These libraries have access to the databases offered by the HBZ to the research libraries of North Rhine-Westphalia and can use them in their reference work.
www.hbz-nrw.de/digioeb

Dresden
List of projects involving partnerships carried out by Dresden libraries.
http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/devision.cfm?lan=en&nId=420
(see especially Training) 

Phantastische Bibliothek, PB, Wetzlar
PB is a research library specializing in fairytales, sci-fi, fantasy and utopias, maintained by Wetzlar City with a very small budget. Its collection is based mainly on donations sent by the publishers in this field. 
http://www.wetzlar.de/phbiblwz/index.html (in German)

Hungary
County libraries co-operating with cultural institutions:
http://www.pserve.hu/baralib (Megyei Könyvtár Pécs)
http://www.bmk.iif.hu (Megyei Könyvtár Békéscsaba)
http://www.hbmk.hu ( Megyei Könyvtár Debrecen)
http://www.vfmk.hu (Megyei Könyvtár Szolnok)
http://www.bdmk.hu (Megyei Könyvtár Szombathely)

Ireland
COLICO - The Committee on Library Co-operation in Ireland
Set up in 1977 to promote the ideal of an interdependent co-ordinated library and information network on the island of Ireland and to encourage co-operation between libraries from all sectors, and also the British Library. Since 1994 it is the formal advisory body on library co-operation to both An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, and the Library and Information Services Council, Northern Ireland (LISC).
http://www.librarycouncil.ie/colico.html

Italy
ICCU 
Developing the project SBN Interlibrary loan, involving 51 libraries at national level, access, via the www to bibliographical catalogues on-line of the SBN Index, about 9 million locations and 4.5 million of bibliographic descriptions.
http://sbnonline.sbn.it/ 

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