THE DIGITAL COLLECTIONS OF THE LBUS LIBRARY IN THE EUROPEANA CLOUD 2013-2016 PROJECT, AN OPENING TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITY. CASE STUDY: THE IMPACT ON CONSUMER OF INFORMATION

Abstract

This spring (2016) ends Europeana Cloud, a project of great importance for the development of the digital platform Europeana.eu (1). The LBUS Library is the only contributor from Romania, with three digital collections, which covered the topic of multicultural coexistence of the ethnics in Sibiu's historic past. The paper emphasizes our contribution, quantitative and especially qualitative through its cultural value and diversity of materials. The next step is to disseminate the most important aspects of the project, the structure, technical requirements, a description of the entire environment and the way of working in order to achieve objectives. The major orientation envisaged was supporting the scientific research, providing working- tools for user-consumer of information. As a case study, it was presented the questionnaire conducted in the LBUS on library users.