“…Another newer European consortium, The European Library, is described by its head, Jill Cousins. She describes its background via six work packages agreed by eight national libraries, those of the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland, The Netherlands, Slovenia and Switzerland, these have subsequently been joined by France (Cousins, 2005). Its vision is the “provision of equal access to promote worldwide understanding of the richness and diversity of European learning and culture and therefore its mission is: … to open up the universe of knowledge, information and culture of all Europe's national libraries.…”