LIBER Journées for Library Directors

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LIBER Journées 2024

29 May 2024 - 31 May 2024 Berlin Freie Universtät Berlin

29
May
2024

31
May
2024

Event information

The fourth edition of LIBER’s Journées leadership programme exclusively for library directors will take place in May 2024, at the Freie Universtät in Berlin.

The LIBER Journées is a tailored scientific programme designed for 20-25 Library Directors who are already in leadership positions in their institutions and who are looking ahead at delivering strategic change as libraries and institutions redefine themselves in an ever-changing information and social environment.

The LIBER Journées brings participants together with eminent global speakers for a stimulating, interactive, and strategic programme, addressing major challenges that face us all. This seminar concentrates on strategic matters and challenges which may be illustrated by operational matters and practical examples.

Applications

The call for applications for the 2024 programme will be opened in the autumn of 2023

Questions? Please contact Working Group member Najmeh Shaghaei via email at: nas@bib.sdu.dk

Dr Najmeh Shaghaei

Head of Campus Library, University Library of Southern Denmark

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Theme

The underpinning theme of LIBER Journées 2024 will be: Trusted Leadership in Challenging Times.

The Journées will be divided into eight sessions led by eminent speakers from the information, library, cultural or business world, from Europe and beyond. Each speaker will focus on specific strategic questions, relating their presentations to the library environment and key challenges. Presentations will be followed by facilitated debate, discussion and analysis. Break-out sessions will focus on issues which participating Directors have flagged up in advance of the LIBER Journées, and will synthesise the outcomes of the sessions and the strategic questions addressed.

Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash

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Previous Seminars

2022 Journées Overview
- 2022 LIBER Journées Programme
- View the 2022 LIBER Journées Strategic Vision.
The 2022 Journées programme attracted a range of eminent speakers and 15 library directors from 12 different countries attended.

The speakers were:
- Fecher, Benedikt (The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG))
- Hauber, Mark E. (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, USA)
- Jolly, Liz (The British Library)
- Mendez, Eva (The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Missingham, Roxanne (The Australian National University)
- Smit, Anja (Utrecht University)
- Szabó, István (National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Budapest)
- Thornton, Ann (Columbia University, USA)
Watch the 2022 Journées Video:
2017 Journées Overview
2017 Journées Overview
The programme attracted eminent speakers from around the globe (Europe, North America and Asia) and 19 Library director participants from 14 different countries.

The 2017 LIBER Journées directors, speakers, facilitators and organisers at Sciences Po (image by Clementine Baude, CC BY).

The speakers were:
- Alain Beretz (Director General for Research and Innovation in France);
- Sarah Thomas (Vice President for the Harvard Library and the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College);
- Bruno Patino (Dean of the School of Journalism, Sciences Po, and Digital Services Director at France Télévision);
- Marc van den Berg (Deputy Director General of the National Library of the Netherlands);
- Wolfram Horstmann (Director of Gottingen State and University Library);
- Caroline Brazier (Chief Librarian at the British Library);
- Peter Sidorko (University Librarian at the University of Hong Kong).
2015 Session Overview
2015 Session Overview
- An account of the 2015 edition of the Journées Programme is available here (as published in the SCONUL Focus journal).

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Applications

Theme

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2017 Journées Overview

2015 Session Overview