A recent letter of proposal to create a European Digital Library has been welcomed by the DELOS Network of Excellence. The letter to the current European Council and Commission presidents from the French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish and Hungarian heads of state proposes making works held in European libraries available online in a European digital library. Giving his reaction to the proposal, Costantino Thanos, scientific coordinator of the Network, remarked, “That all citizens, anywhere, anytime, should have access to Internet-connected digital devices to search all of human knowledge, regardless of barriers of time, place, culture or language has been the vision of DELOS since its inception.” He went on to state, “A European Digital Library is a step towards making this vision a reality.”