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Article: Thinking about culture and language: the European Library and Europeana.
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Just as I was beginning to wonder whether the world really needed Europeana [http://www.europeana.org], the ambitious new digital repository of Europe's art treasures, to construct its site in 22 different languages, there comes a press release announcing that The European Library has relaunched its impressive site, incorporating many of the recommendations from user feedback studies conducted since its start in 2005. At the top of the wish list: more multilingual facilities. According to the press release, itself issued in at least seven languages, users can now navigate and scan the collections of 38 national libraries across Europe "in their native language" and read ...