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Your voice for Europe’s research library community.

LIBER supports and speaks up on behalf of university, national and special libraries – their institutions and their users – across Europe. Find out more or join us in making our voice stronger.

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LIBER Winter Event 2024 in Maribor, Slovenia

Posted 23-02-2024

We are LIBER

LIBER is the voice of European research libraries. Join us to ensure that your library stays ahead in a fast-changing world. We collaborate with our network of 420+ libraries to reach the goals of our powerful 2023-2027 Strategy. We apply our influence to ensure that research library priorities rank highly on the agendas of our universities and the European Union, and we actively develop current and future library leaders through our conferences, workshops and seminars.

Find out more about the benefits of joining LIBER.

Reasons to Join

Network of 420+ libraries

How we work

Our 2023-2027 Strategy outlines our main areas of focus, including key topics such as Copyright Reform, Digital Humanities, Open Access, Metrics, and Research Data Management.

The Strategy is executed thanks to the dedication of the hundreds of volunteers who serve on our Executive Board, Steering Committees and Working Groups, as well as through our participation in international projects is key to the execution of our Strategy.

International Projects

Working Groups

LIBER Working Groups

LIBER’s Working Groups address important areas of work for the research library community. Participation is open to all staff in LIBER institutions.

The topics of the Working Groups relate directly to our 2023-2027 Strategy, and each group has clearly set objectives to be achieved in one or two years.

Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Working Group

Posted 08-06-2020

Architecture Working Group

LIBER Architecture Working Group (LAG)

Posted 27-08-2020

Citizen Science Working Group

LIBER Citizen Science Working Group

Posted 19-08-2020

Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group

LIBER Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group

Posted 19-08-2020

Data Science in Libraries Working Group

LIBER Data Science in Libraries Working Group

Posted 02-03-2021

Educational Resources Working Group

LIBER Educational Resources Working Group

Posted 22-04-2021

FIM4L Working Group

LIBER FIM4L Working Group

Posted 07-09-2020

Leadership Programmes Working Group

LIBER Leadership Programmes Working Group

Posted 01-10-2020

Open Access Working Group

LIBER Open Access Working Group

Posted 06-10-2020

Research Data Management Working Group

LIBER Research Data Management Working Group

Posted 12-06-2020

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We currently participate in these international projects

PALOMERA

PALOMERA – Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area

DIAMAS

ORE Project

Open Research Europe (ORE) Project

Knowledge Rights 21 Project

Knowledge Rights 21

CeOS_SE

CeOS_SE Project — Citizen-Enhanced Open Science in Southeastern Europe Higher Education Knowledge Hubs

MES-COBRAD

MES-CoBraD

LibrarIN Project

LibrarIN Project — Value Co-Creation and Social Innovation for a New Generation of European Libraries

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Recent Resources

Strategy

Strategy Update 2022

Posted 28-11-2022

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Strategy 2023-2027

LIBER Strategy 2023-2027

Posted 21-11-2022

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Research Data Management Working Group ADBU

Research Data Management Support Services – Toolkit (By LIBER and ADBU)

Posted 30-06-2023

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ADBU

Open Science Services by Research Libraries: Organisational perspectives. A LIBER and ADBU report

Posted 21-06-2023

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Citizen Science Working Group Citizen Science

Citizen Science Guide — Section 2: Library Infrastructures and Citizen Science

Posted 02-06-2023

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More resources

Join LIBER

LIBER is the voice of European research libraries. Join us to ensure that your library stays ahead in a fast-changing world. We collaborate with our network of 420+ libraries to reach the goals of our powerful 2023-2027 Strategy. We apply our influence to ensure that research library priorities rank highly on the agendas of our universities and the European Union, and we actively develop current and future library leaders through our conferences, workshops and seminars.

Join LIBER