LIBER Alert | Research Library and Open Science News | December 13, 2019

This is the 27th LIBER Alert.

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LIBER News

• LIBER Strategy Update: With 2020 just around the corner, we reflect on the achievements of this year and highlight what we’ll deliver in the months ahead. Read
• Copyright Implementation: LIBER and Communia have released detailed guidelines on the implementation of the Digital Single Market Directive. Read more
• SCOSS Funding Call: LIBER backs the latest SCOSS funding call for three vetted and vital open infrastructure services: DOAB and OAPEN, the Public Knowledge Project and OpenCitations. Learn more
• COUNTER Release 5: Together with IARLA partners, LIBER has signed an open letter calling for the expedition to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. Read more
• New FIM4L Working Group: Would you like to help develop a library policy for federated authentication which protects user privacy and grants access from any location, while still offering libraries and publishers enough scope to control access as needed? If so, please join LIBER’s newest Working Group. Read more
• LIBER Webinars:
  • Open A GLAM Lab — 20 January, 1400 CET
  • Skills & Knowledge for Responsible Research Practices — 27 January, 1400 CET
  • Planning Library Spaces — Key Points — 5 February, 1430 CET
• LIBER Events:
  • Annual Conference – The Call for Papers for LIBER 2020 (Belgrade, 24-26 June), is now open with the theme Building Trust With Research Libraries. Read
  • LIBER Journées Leadership Programme – Applications open for the LIBER Journées programme for library directors, 13-15 May 2020 at the Library and Information Centre Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Apply
  • Architecture Seminar  – Registration is open for the LIBER Architecture Group Seminar, happening 1-3 April 2020 at the Luxembourg Learning Centre. The theme is Designing For Learning and Scholarship. Register
• SSH Open Cloud News:
  • SSHOC Report on (meta) data interoperability problems: valuable insights for research librarians from a recent SSHOC investigation into research data and metadata interoperability problems among project partners. Read more
  • Read about the SSHOC masterclass at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019 in Leipzig on validating large text collections. Stay tuned for our webinar in March 2020 on the same topic.
  • Sign up for the SSHOC newsletter and join the SSHOC Training Community.

Network & Open Science News

• Unlocking the Fagel Collection: This collaborative three-year project between the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Library of Trinity College Dublin will result in the creation of online records for every book and pamphlet within this exceptional 18^th century Dutch collection. Read more

Upcoming Events

• APE 2020, Berlin 13-15 January 2020
• European Dataverse Workshop, Tromsø 23-24 January 2020
• OCLC 2020 EMEARC, Vienna 3-4 March 2020
• Open Science Conference 2020, Berlin 11-12 March 2020
• RLUK20, London 16-18 March 2020
• Libraries In The Digital age (LIDA) 2020, Dubrovnik 19-22 May 2020
• 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2020), Barcelona 26-30 May 2020
• LIBER Architecture Seminar, Luxembourg 1-3 April 2020
• 22nd Annual Fiesole Retreat, Athens 7-9 April 2020
• New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, Fiesole 11-14 May 2020
• LIBER Journées Leadership Programme, Budapest 13-15 May 2020
• 2020 Creative Commons Global Summit, Lisbon 14-16 May 202
• Frontiers Forum 2020, Montreux 15-17 May 2020
• IASSIST 2020, Gothenburg 19-22 May 2020
• ECSA 2020, Trieste 24-26 May 2020
• German Librarian’s Day, Hannover 26-29 May 2020
• CONUL Conference 2020, Limerick 27-28 May 2020
• LIBER 2020 Annual Conference, Belgrade 24-26 June 2020
• ICTeSSH 2020, Amsterdam 29 June – 1 July 2020
• IATUL, Porto 12-16 July 2020
• IFLA WLIC 2020, Dublin 15-21 August 2020

Call for Papers

• 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2020) (Deadline: 20 December)
• LIBER 2020 (Deadline: 13 January)
• IATUL (Deadline: 15 January)

Jobs

• Research Data Librarian, University of Birmingham Library Services (Closing date: 3 Januay 2020)

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