The European Library service will be a portal which offers integrated access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe. It will offer free searching for both digital and non-digital resources and will deliver digital objects – some free, some priced. At launch there will be no central authentication mechanisms, any authentication will be carried out via services offered by the national libraries themselves. There will be limited multi-lingual features at launch – the partners are committed to multi-lingual interfaces, with links to translation services, but there will be no integrated multi-lingual search facility. A languages working group will be set up to investigate the development of multi-lingual searching. The service will grow incrementally – both in terms of collections available and additional contributing partners.” [Link via ShelfLife]