Submit a Paper or Poster for the LIBER 2017 Conference in Patras, Greece (5-7 July). Contributions are being accepted on a number of themes, including Sustainability, Vision, Knowledge and Data Management, and Leadership.
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The LIBER Executive Board meeting in autumn 2016 was hosted by Stockholm University Library, at their university campus on 19-20 October. The finalisation of our 2018-22 Strategic Framework elicited intense discussion amongst the Board members. It has been one year since the Board first began to work on drafting the next LIBER Strategy; a process…
Transforming Research Libraries: The Leadership Challenge. That is the title of LIBER’s second Leadership Journées Programme, exclusively for Library Directors and set to take place in May 2017. The programme will take place from 17-19 May at Sciences Po, in the heart of Paris. The Paris Institute of Political Studies is ideally located on the Left…
The European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has just published its first report and recommendations. It calls for immediate action to build the EOSC, in close collaboration with Member states. “The challenge is clear to us: if we do not act, there might be a looming crisis on…
Copyright law is complex. That’s why our Copyright Working Group has just published a basic guide to Limitations and Exceptions in EU Copyright Law for Libraries, Educational and Research Establishments. The freely downloadable document is an introductory guide to copyright law as it relates to schools, universities, their libraries, national libraries, and public libraries. Limitations and…
Almost all of Europe’s academic research libraries are working collaboratively, within and outside of their institutions, to help ensure that the scientific data of today is curated properly, so it can be accessed, shared and reused by future generations. That is one conclusion from a recent survey on Research Data Services (RDS), carried out by a…
Here in the LIBER Office, we’re looking at ways to make our website better. Over the coming months, we want to make it easier for you to find relevant content. That’s why we need your feedback. Please let us know what you think by taking a short survey. It should only take about 5 minutes to…
The EU-funded OpenAIRE project, in which LIBER is a partner, is searching for an external consultant to put together an economic analysis study on the evolution of the Open Access publishing market. Using the findings of the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot as a starting point, the report should aim to answer the following…
The European Commission recently published its long-awaited proposal for copyright reform. LIBER released its own reaction to the proposal, and signed the following statement along with EBLIDA, Public Libraries 2020, IFLA and Europeana (download the statement in PDF format): Libraries and cultural heritage institutions have long empowered people to learn, innovate and be inspired, without…
Today (14 September 2016) the European Commission released its long awaited draft proposals for a Directive on Copyright and the Digital Single Market. LIBER has released a statement in response to this development outlining the need to go further to ensure that legal certainty is achieved. A well-functioning and competitive market for research and innovation;…
