This week a “Welcome, New Members!” meeting for the national libraries of the FUMAGABA project is held in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. You probably do not remember but some months ago I already announced the start of this project. To help you remember…
Fumagaba is a project of The European Library. The project aims at integrating the collections of the national libraries of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Azerbaijan. FUMAGABA partners are members of CENL and are becoming Full Participants with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Following welcome speeches by Wim van Drimmelen (Director National Library of The Netherlands) and Geneviève Clavel-Merin (on behalf of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), Jill Cousins spoke about all the different pieces of the jigsaw and how Fumagab-project fits in this context. Cousins is the program director The European Library / Europeana.
Today Louise Edwards, general manager, presented the strategic overview of The European Library. Other presentations informed the new partners about the technical, editorial and marketing aspects. Sally Chambers gave an excellent presentation on collections and metadata.
“The European Library is proud to be expanding eastwards and to welcome new Full Participants into The European Library through FUMAGABA and several other initiatives.” says Georgia Angelaki, Project Coordinator and Central Contact for FUMAGABA.
For more information about Fumagaba go to: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/cooperation/fumagaba/
