Presentation for LIR 2010 Seminar, March 25th 2010, Dublin, Ireland. This presentation offers a quick view of free electronic resources mostly hosted by libraries and public institutions.

1. Freesources
Case Study:
‘The European Library’
Tony Eklof
University College Dublin

2. LIR..aims to develop
awareness of
electronic information
resources.
1.Overview of
freesources
2.Gateways
3.European Library
Exhibition foyer
Treasures

3. Freesources
• Govt Agency
• University or Group of
Universities
• Libraries
• Conference of European
National Libraries
• ‘Labour of Love’ from
individual or individuals

5. Age of the Universe →
Thanks in part to the Hubble Space Telescope, we
know the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
(with an uncertainty of only 200 million years)

18. Project Gabriel

25. Nat Library
of Spain
1808

36. Summary thoughts
• (What’s changed?)
• Sophistication, (RSS feeds,
audio..)
• Digitalisation of primary
materials
• Range and scope of documents
• Authenticity