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| Coordination of digitizing or microfilming activities and easy access to existing service copies of surrogate media help libraries to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort. EROMM, the European Register of Microform and Digital Masters, aims to bring together all information on printed and hand-written items reformatted to surrogate media – digital or microform – in libraries throughout Europe and worldwide. | Coordination of digitizing or microfilming activities and easy access to existing service copies of surrogate media help libraries to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort. EROMM, the European Register of Microform and Digital Masters, aims to bring together all information on printed and hand-written items reformatted to surrogate media – digital or microform – in libraries throughout Europe and worldwide. | ||
| - | For this purpose EROMM created the database [[use_eromm-eromm_classic|EROMM Classic]] and more recently the [[use_eromm-eromm_search|EROMM Search]] service, which are both freely available to anyone. With it, EROMM is also supporting researchers and students, who want to identify the location of any item in surrogate form. With the free [[use_eromm-eromm_request|EROMM Request]] service, EROMM also offers an easy way for sending orders or inquiries to the owners of the surrogates. | + | For this purpose EROMM created the database [[use_eromm-eromm_classic|EROMM Classic]] and more recently the [[use_eromm-eromm_search|EROMM Search]] service, which are both freely available to anyone. With it, EROMM is also supporting researchers and students, who want to identify the location of any item in surrogate form. |
| ===== History ===== | ===== History ===== | ||
| EROMM is a consortium of libraries and library networks. The founding agreement dates back to 1994. The first group of four libraries, which had cooperated since 1990 in the second only of European Union library projects, resolved to run the register of preservation surrogates as a permanent service. Since then, EROMM has evolved from a register recording microform masters into a database recording any printed or hand-written item available in surrogate, be it on microfilm or in digital form. | EROMM is a consortium of libraries and library networks. The founding agreement dates back to 1994. The first group of four libraries, which had cooperated since 1990 in the second only of European Union library projects, resolved to run the register of preservation surrogates as a permanent service. Since then, EROMM has evolved from a register recording microform masters into a database recording any printed or hand-written item available in surrogate, be it on microfilm or in digital form. | ||
| - | Presently there are [[about_eromm-partners|14 EROMM partners]] representing twelve countries in Europe. We hope to extend the membership to cover libraries from all over Europe. | + | Presently there are [[about_eromm-partners|10 EROMM partners]] representing eleven countries in Europe. We hope to extend the membership to cover libraries from all over Europe. |
| ===== Further Reading ===== | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
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