Europe's digital library size doubles.

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Europeana, Europe's multilingual digital library (www. europeana.eu) has more than doubled to include nearly 4.6 million digitized books, maps, photographs, film clips, and newspapers since its launch in November 2008.

The European Commission (EC) has announced plans to increase the number of digitized items in the collection to 10 million in 2010. Still, only 5% of all digitized books in the EU are available on Europeana, according to Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for information society and media.

The biggest challenge is Europe's fragmented copyright framework, Reding said. Earlier this year, for example, a French aggregator had to withdraw photographs from Europeana because it had the right...