TE.L.A..N. stands for The European Electronic Library & Archive Network is a project which grew from four elements: i) the original plan in 1993 for TEL to be a world network of authors/publishers/subjects/reference matrix a P.C. concept schematised by SBC with Richard Baker. ii) development of the initiative for internet collecting as stated by Stephen B. Cox in a recent issue of the Journal (Technological TEL Collecting) with iii) the long term plan to initiate audio projects for Arktion and iii) the TEL associated project called Elan proposed by former Bro.David Joly of Belgium (but now abandoned in that regard) to build a TEL linked societal resource for pagans.

The goal behind the TELAN project is to build an electronic archive, including books, pictures and articles downloaded from the World Wide Web. All these articles and books will be centralised initially by members agreeing to act as collecting points and thence for transmission to ghq. The Archive will be available to all members for a small donation via e-mail (or printed hardcopy by snail mail at 12p per page as with TEL) and to the public as a paid service. Access will be made via the Internet or (as a subscriber) or by CD ROM purchases.

All income (less the costs of the project and a fair payment to the member organisers who will work with Bro.Stephen to run the project) generated by the project from both members and from the public will be donated to one of the most important fighting funds of Arktion, indeed a singularly essential project for Pagan Europe itself: to either buy or obtain a long lease on a farmhouse (and small holding of land for agricultural self-sufficiency) in a remote rural landscape which will become the dream manifest in the material world we all desire: a pan-European heritage centre/school and pagan community which will be sanctuary which you can all use for your holidays and as a retreat, and also have your children educated.

Why not pledge yourself top one of the following?

 (Material can be donated via e-mail, 3.5" diskettes, ZIP disks or CD-R(W). All Arktion members having access to the Internet (at home, work or school) are encouraged to donate a couple of articles, pictures or one book a month. Copyright information (authors, web URL, etc.) must be included!

We also encourage members with or having access to a scanner to make e-texts from articles and books. Flatbed scanners are available in many schools, libraries, and workplaces, and can be bought very cheaply these days from direct-mail manufacturers such as DEL, Tiny, Time etc. Many scanners come with optical character recognition (OCR) software (such as Omnipage), which is quite accurate once you've adjusted your settings properly. Members can also type the work in if they prefer, or if a good scanner is not available.

The first stage is donations for a ZIP-drive at GHQ to use 100MB capacity discs (as opposed to 1,5 MB). An external ZIP-drive costs about £145. If 15 members donated £10: solved! We know it can be done: only this month: Bro.Halvard (Norway) & Sis.Amanda (England) between them donated £135 (out of the £212 needed) solving the problem of repairs- a magnificent response. Also Jan ( Belgium) & Bro.Stian (Norway) + David (Belgium) donated quite a number of items from the Internet. Bro.Darren(Australia) launched & maintained for a long time the main Order website. Others are imminent- we need more!!!

The greater and the quicker that the Centre grows by your efforts, then the quicker we shall get our farmhouse by your schemes and promotions (for example: i) Pledging an annual or a monthly donation direct to our bank account; ii) promoting as widely as possible to the public or even iii) putting together a group of your own to bring over for a holiday: which would almost immediately finance our farmhouse) the more you will have a physical resource with all the things you want to be able to enjoy whenever you want. Your sanctuary like your own time-share magickal mansion in a numinous landscape! So let us all prove for once and for all that were indeed worthy of being European and that we are serious about building the future! W