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Winter Event 2021 – Programme Now Live

Posted: 21-10-2021 Topics: Winter Event

Below you’ll find the tentative programme for our LIBER Winter Event 2021 taking place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands on the 9th and 10th of December 2021. Read more about the event in general here.

Programme (Tentative)

Wednesday 8th December 2021

19:00 – pre-registration drinks (location: bar in Amsterdam) (optional)

Thursday 9th December 2021

9:00 – 10:00 Welcome & Introduction Session
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions – Workshops:

1. Digital Scholarship Now! (Organisers: Digital Scholarship and Digital Collections Working Group)
2. Open to Society: New networks, strategy, and in practice (Organisers: Citizen Science Working Group)
3. Assessing, Financing and Maintaining Open Access Infrastructures: a New Role for Libraries (Organisers: LIBER OA Working Group)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions – Workshops:

1. Really open to all: Web accessibility of OA publications and OER (Organisers: Open Access Working Group, Working Group on Open Educational Resources)
2. ReCreating Europe workshop “Secondary Publishing Right: exploring the opportunities and limitations” (Organisers: Project partners from the reCreating Europe project & LIBER)
3. Reaching out to University leaders or leaders in the University: (Further) positioning the library as a valued partner in our Universities in an open science world (Organisers: Leadership Working Group)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Strategy Session: Second Round of Feedback
18:00 – 22:00 Dutch buffet and silent disco in de VU Botanical Garden.

Friday 10th December 2021

9:00 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions – Demos & Lightning talks:

1. Sharing and Caring (Open Educational Resources Working Group)
2. Understanding federated authentication to library e-resources (FIM4L Working Group)
3. The Introduction of Data Science in Libraries Working Group (Organiser: Data Science Working Group)
4. Poster and clip on the activities of the LIBER Leadership Working Group (Organiser: Leadership Working Group)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Feed Forward Plenary (Workhop/demo/talks organisers, the next LIBER Strategy, LIBER Quarterly)
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 – LIBER working group meetings (optional)
14:00 – 16:00 – Visit to the VU Arts & Science Gallery; interactive historical walks (Optional)
16:00 – 18:00 – Drinks with live music