UGent books now available in Europeana!

27 September 2010 - Ghent University Library today became the first in Europe to contribute public domain works scanned by Google to Europeana, Europe’s culture heritage. Readers  using Europeana can now enjoy more than 30 million newly-added pages of historical, scientific, anthropological and literary works, from over 100,000 volumes, spanning four centuries, in French, Dutch, German and other languages.

Joke Schauvliege,  Flemish Minister of Environment, Nature and Culture and chair of the European Council of Environment is pleased that the unique and large collection of Ghent University leads the way. "I hope that the addition of so many pages to the Europeana database will stimulate the use of this rich cultural heritage material," says Minister Schauvliege. "I applaud the collaboration between Ghent University and Europeana to make this material visible and free searchable."

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