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The project's website is currently presented at the workshop "Modernity of the Medieval Book", on Thurdsay March 29^th in the Petit auditorium at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Throughout the second half of 2011, 131 Carolingian manuscripts were digitized in Reims, Amiens and Valenciennes in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), as part of the Europeana Regia project.

This operation was made possible through the active participation of the three public libraries and the commitment of the three departments at the BnF which were involved: the Departments of Manuscripts, of Preservation and of Cooperation.

This is a novel experience in two respects:

The article, published in the latest edition of the Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, outlines the scope and results of the study on users’ requirements and expectations with regards to the Europeana Regia website. Conducted in several stages from May to November 2010, the study focussed on three groups of potential users – researchers, secondary school teachers and the general public – to determine what use they might make of this digitised content and what specific needs and expectations they might have when consulting it.

In March, Europeana Regia was presented in Paris at the international seminar “The Message of the Old Book in the New Environment”, organized by the Finnish Research Library Association and the Institut Finlandais en France during the 2011 Paris Book Fair (18-19 March 2011). Following a general overview of the project, this presentation focused mainly on the development of the Europeana Regia website, where it will be possible to consult the manuscripts in the context of their historical collections through a multilingual interface.