On April 20th, 2017, LIBER will host the closing workshop of the OpenAIRE FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot. During the workshop, the organisers will present the preliminary results of the different activities undertaken during the two year pilot: a comprehensive overview of all statistical data resulting from the project, an overview of best practices…
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On March 7 LIBER’s EU Project Manager Melanie Imming will chair a panel at the Innovation Workshop of the PREFORMA Project in Padua. The PREFORMA project works on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. This issue is also important for LIBER’s community. LIBER has therefore…
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Is your institution considering how to manage research data? Do you need to implement a data management policy? Would you like to hear the latest insights from experts working on this topic? If so, save a space in your diary for the LEARN Final Conference, Managing the Data Deluge: roles and responsibilities for your institution,…
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LIBER is pleased to welcome Simone Sacchi to our team, as our new Open Science Officer. Simone brings to LIBER 15 years of experience in academic libraries and research centers, driving enterprise–level information management programs and R&D projects focused on the technologies, policies, and best practices that support the long–term stewardship, access, and impact of…
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If your library is looking for insights on how to manage research data, along with an overview of how libraries across Europe are gearing up to handle increasing volumes of data, then this recording of a recent LIBER Webinar may be of interest. Based on the 2016 LIBER-DataONE survey on Research Data Services in Europe, the…
DetailsDigitisation has opened up the collections of many European research libraries to new methods of research in the humanities. However, not all libraries have had the possibility of acting on this, even though there is great potential for cooperation with our user communities and doing research. To facilitate existing activities and to encourage interested libraries…
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Are you in a senior management position in your library? Would you like to prepare for taking on the role of leading an organisation through challenging times? If so, sign up now for our 2017-2018 Emerging Leaders Programme. The deadline to apply has been extended until 12 February 2017. This highly praised programme will be divided…
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It is with great sadness that LIBER notes the passing of Erland Kolding Nielsen, Director of the Royal Danish Library. As a long-time avid supporter, Vice-President of LIBER from 1999-2002 and President from 2003-2006, Erland contributed significantly to LIBER’s work. He generously gave LIBER a home for its first permanent secretariat at the Royal Library…
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LIBER participated in the kick-off meeting of the European Open Science Cloud for Research pilot (EOSCpilot) project, 17-18 January in Amsterdam. LIBER is one of the 33 partners working on the EOSCpilot — a project which will support the first development phase of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The EOSCpilot project will address some…
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The deadline for applying for the 2017 LIBER Journées leadership programme, exclusively for Library Directors, has been extended to 22 January 2017. The second LIBER Journees, 17-19 May 2017, is 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…
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