12 million scanned pages in more than 110,000 EU publications are now available free of charge for download in the EU Bookshop Digital Library which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16. The Digital Library contains all publications edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies since 1952 with new publications being added every day. In the words of Leonard Orban, Commissioner for multilingualism: “The digital library frees the memory of the European Union tied to paper since its beginning. The millions of pages now accessible to everyone in the 23 official languages demonstrate the continued commitment of the European Union to preserve and encourage the history of the Union in its linguistic diversity.”
EU Bookshop content is also to become accessible via Europeana, a digitisation project of many prominent national European libraries and archives.
EU Bookshop Digital Library goes live
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