The British Library [BL]. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Its history dates back to the formation of Department of Printed Books of The British Museum in 1753. The British Library was formally created by the 1972 British Library Act. It is a non-departmental government body sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The annual report is available at xxxx://xxx.xx.xx/aboutus/annrep/index.html The British Library was a founder member of The European Library (TEL) xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx and is an active member in the governance and running of this operational service. It was a partner in TEL-ME-MOR and lead partner in PLANETS. It is also involved in IMPACT and ARROW. It has made its bibliographical metadata available to the TELplus workpackage on multilingual access. The Chief Executive, Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, was a member of the High-level Group on Digital Libraries, and she chaired the expert group on public and private partnerships. The British Library is a significant contributor of content to Europeana. It is also a member of CENL, LIBER and CERL. In Ev2 the British Library will lead WP4 concentrating on Communications to the Thematic Partner Network and to the Press. Key Personnel: Xxx Xxxxxx is currently Senior Communications Advisor for Europeana, and has been managing the project’s communications and awareness raising activities since 2007. He is currently on secondment from the British Library, where he was Head of Corporate Communications from 2000, implementing award-winning campaigns around public value and digital access. Previous roles include communications for the Library’s digital initiatives in the 1990s and strategic marketing for the bibliographic, photographic and publishing departments. He began his career as the first Curator of Recorded Literature at the National Sound Archive, and has also worked in events management and online communications for financial services. He read English at the University of Sussex, and did postgraduate studies in marketing at Manchester Business School. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Marketing, and has taught communications on their professional development programme.
