MEPS CALL ON MEMBER STATES TO BACK EUROPEAN E-LIBRARY
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER states of the European Union (EU) have been attacked by MEPs for their lukewarm support of the 'Europeana' online library, museum and archive. In a report released at the European Parliament's culture and education committee, they called for more governments to offer content and European Union (EU) budget funding from 2013.
The report stressed that currently only 5% of all digital books are available in the Europeana and that almost half (47%) of these have been provided by France, with other significant contributors being Germany (16%), ...
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