The LIBER Office would like to wish all LIBER libraries, the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will be close for two weeks on 22 December 2014 and will reopen on 5 January 2015. During the Christmas break, please don’t forget to consider submitting a paper or poster proposal…
Library directors are invited to join LIBER in Paris, May 2015, for the Leadership Journées Programme. The Programme will be held at Sciences Po from 20-22 May, 2015. It is designed for 20 Library Directors who are already in leadership positions in their institutions, and who are looking ahead at delivering strategic change as libraries as…
The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has taken newspaper content from libraries in 23 European countries and made them searchable via a historic newspaper browser. “For the first time in history we have the opportunity to do transnational comparative research on the basis of big data!“ says Toine Pieters, digital humanities…
The LIBER Executive Board is very pleased to announce that following its recent recruitment for a new Executive Director, and interviews held in the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague on 20 November 2014, Ms Susan Reilly has been appointed as LIBER Executive Director. She will take up her post on 1 December…
The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2015 Annual Conference — to be held in London, UK from 24-26 June — is now open. Submit your papers here for the conference, which will focus on the theme Towards Open Science. Open Science is underpinned by the following broad principles: Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data Public…
On Thursday the 11th of November, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), in cooperation with the Committee on Culture and Education held a special hearing on “The Future Development of Copyright in Europe”. The hearing took place on the foot of the announcement by Jean-Claude Juncker that, within the first six months of his…
At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The Declaration, initiated in 2012 by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognises the need to improve the ways in…
The LIBER Executive Board met at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, for its annual October Executive Board meeting. During the meeting, the following topics were discussed: European Projects and Activities The Board discussed Horizon2020 project in which LIBER will be involved. This included OpenAire2020, commencing in January 2015, and as part of which LIBER will…
Today, at a breakfast meeting in the European Parliament, LIBER joined EBLIDA in making the case for the role of libraries in improving access to information and knowledge in the digital age. The event, hosted by MEP Sylvie Guillaume and organised by EBLIDA, served to highlight the need for copyright reform by examining the role…
The NMC Horizon group recently released its 2014 Library Report, one of a series of annual reports which aim to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in every sector of education around the globe. As described on their website, the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library…
