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United Kingdom; Scotland
"This web site hosts the reports we submitted to the Secretaries of State for Education and Employment, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in July 1997. Our Committee was appointed with bipartisan support on 10 May 1996 to make recommendations on how the purposes, shape, structure, size and funding of higher [...]

Europe
The Commission's central library was established in 1958 when the EU institutions were founded. Its collections provide both a historical and contemporary vision of European integration. This site aims to provide all the information you need to visit the library and cosult its collections. The library catalogue ECLAS, is continually [...]

France; Francophone Countries
The network of French-speaking digital national libraries (Réseau francophone numériques) provides this document listing national libraries all over the world.

international
"The UNESCO Library provides reference and information services, including online searches, to the organization as a whole, as well as to the general public with an interest in UNESCO's fields of competence." The collections comprise library and archive services, UNESCO publications, periodicals and documentation resources.

EUROLIB is a grouping of European institutional libraries organised on the basis of an agreement adopted by Resolution at a General Assembly in Dublin on 18 April, 1997.EUROLIB aims to promote a wider awareness of the contribution libraries make to the work of the institutions they serve. It seeks to enhance the professional performance of the staff of the institutional [...]

Europe
The European Library is now in Europeana. Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re [...]

international
SourceOECD provides online access to all OECD publications - in particular those in the field of education - issued from January 1998. It comprises about 2,000 monographs, 30 databases and more than 20 periodicals. SourceOECD offers access to full-text publications in pdf format. It is also possible to access the OECD statistical [...]

Belgium

Die ´Königliche Bibliothek Belgiens´ ist sowohl Nationalbibliothek als auch eine bedeutende wissenschaftliche Bibliothek. Sie gibt die nur in elektronischer Form existierende Belgische Bibliographie heraus.La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique est un établissement scientifique fédéral. Sa mission est d´une part la bibliothèque nationale et d´autre part une [...]

Greece

Croatia

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France

Gallica is the name of the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF). Launched in 1997, it can be accessed from anywhere in the world over the Internet.

“The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)” is the second largest library worldwide. Its roots can be traced to 1368 when King Charles V established his library in the Louvre. Nowadays, Lous XI is considered to have founded the library in the late 15th century, as well as Francois I who in 1537 introduced the law that printers had to deliver a copy of each book to [...]

Italy

Italy
The BNCF is one of the national central libraries and responsible for assembling the national bibliography. It is the legal deposit library for Italy.

Italy
The BNCR is one of the national central libraries and one of the legal deposit libraries with emphasis on foreign publications about Italy. It publishes the bibliography ``Bollettino delle opere moderne straniere (BOMS)``.

Malta

Malta
This web site of the Maltese government offers access to pages of following institutions: National Library of Malta, Malta Public Libraries, Gozo Public Libraries and National Archives of Malta. Besides, there are links to different pages of catalogues (particularly the Malta Public Libraries Online Catalogue), publications and to [...]

Netherlands

The responsibility of the KB is the preservation, management, documentation and accessibility of the national cultural heritage in written printed and electronic form.

Austria

Austria
With approximately 8 million books and objects, the Austrian National Library is the biggest library in Austria. In addition to the more than 3 million books, its international prestige is based particularly on the nine special Departments with their unique objects – manuscripts, incunabula, music autographs, photographs, maps, [...]

Rusia

Die Russische Staatsbibliothek, 1862 gegründet, 1925–45 Leninbibliothek, 1945–92 Staatliche Leninbibliothek der UdSSR, ist aus der Bibliothek des Rumjanzew-Museums hervorgegangen, ab 1925 die Nationalbibliothek der UdSSR in Moskau. 1992 wurde die Bibliothek in Russische Staatsbibliothek umbenannt. Sie gehört zu den weltweit größten Bibliotheken. Bestand (2003): rund 42 [...]

Die RNB wurde nach dem Wunsch der Kaiserin Katharina der II. 1795 als erste allen zugängliche Bibliothek Russlands und nationale Bücherei gegründet (Eröffnung 1814). Seit 1932 als Saltykov-Schedrin-Bibliothek bekannt und nach der Moskauer Russischen Staatsbibliothek mit 33, 5 Mio Bestandseinheiten die zweitgrößte Bibliothek des Landes. Den wichtigsten Teil der Bestände [...]

1925 gegründete, größte pädagogische Spezialbibliothek Russlands mit einem Bestand von ca. 1, 6 Mio Bestandseinheiten

Switzerland

Switzerland
In the Swiss National Library you will find everything about Switzerland; everything which is published in the country or written by Swiss authors. Every publication, from Swiss daily newspapers to novels, from documentaries and yearbooks to official publications and geographical maps. In our two most important special collections, [...]

Die Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek (SOB) ist die grösste Spezialbibliothek der Schweiz zu zeitgeschichtlichen Osteuropafragen. Geographisch konzentriert sich ihr Sammelgebiet auf die Nachfolgestaaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion, die baltischen Staaten, Ostmitteleuropa und die Länder Südosteuropas (ohne Griechenland und Türkei). Der thematische Schwerpunkt der Bibliothek [...]

Spain

Sweden

Sweden
The National Library of Sweden has been collecting everything printed in Sweden or in Swedish since 1661. The National Library is also a humanities research library that purchases scholarly literature in several languages. The National Library administers and develops LIBRIS, the national library catalogue system. On the website you can [...]

United Kingdom

United Kingdom
The British Library receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages - 3 million new items are added every year. The BL has manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. Its Sound Archive [...]

Japan

Japanische Nationalbibliothek (National Diet Library), 1948 gegründet. Heute besteht die Nationalbibliothek aus einer Hauptbibliothek, the International Library of Children`s Literature, the Toyo Bunk (orientalische Bibliothek) und 26 Zweigbibliotheken. Ebenso umfangreich ist das Onlineangebot der NDL, das in japanischer und (teilweise) englischer Sprache abrufbar ist. Die [...]

Canada

Library and Archives Canada ist die Nationalbibliothek Kanadas. Ursprünglich gegründet im Jahr 1953, ist sie heute das Resultat des Zusammenschlusses zwischen der Nationalbibliothek von Kanada und dem Nationalarchiv von Kanada 2003. Ihre Hauptaufgabe ist, die kanadische Geschichte in Form von Texten und Bildern zu sammeln und aufzubewahren. Das Dienstgebäude befindet sich [...]

Canada
The BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) is an association of the Quebec national library and several national archives of the Canadian province of Quebec, which aims as the superior national library to preserve any historical and cultural heritage of the province. BAnQ serves as a storage for large amounts of [...]

United States

United States of America (USA)
The Library of Congress is the nation´s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library´s mission is to support the Congress in [...]

United States of America (USA)
As of 10.01.2018, no link could be found to the homepage of the US National Library of Education apart from the catalog link. Unfortunately, the catalog website doesnt't provide any background information.