The 3rd LIBER workshop on Digital Curation will take place from the 19th to the 20th of May in Vienna. The management of digital objects (e.g. articles, datasets, images, streams of data, multimedia objects) and non-digital objects (namely real-world entities, like authors, institutions, teams, geographic locations, etc.) is a crucial issue for the whole scientific…
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The library community has an extra month to respond to the European Commission’s Copyright Consultation, now that the deadline has been extended to March 5th. Responding to the consultation is critical because its outcomes will affect anyone who works with researchers, or who cares about future library services and access to cultural heritage. Keep…
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Today, the 22nd of January, the League of European Research Universities launched its Roadmap for Research Data in Brussels. The launch was attend by 50 representatives from LERU institutions, organisations working in open data, and the European Commission. Developed with the aim of helping to plot a path for all European universities who wish to…
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2014 is shaping up to be a busy year for LIBER. Here are some of the activities that we’re working on this year, on behalf of our more than 400 research library members across Europe. #1. Horizon 2020 Funding Bids The European Commission’s €15 billion Horizon 2020 funding program offers unique opportunities for research libraries to…
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The European University Institute is currently seeking a new director. The European University Institute (EUI), a unique international centre for doctorate and post-doctorate studies and research, is currently seeking a new director. The successful person should be dynamic, innovative and experienced individual. He or she will be responsible for developing and expanding the Library collections…
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The Sabanci University Information Centre, a LIBER member, has just launched digitalSSM – an online archive that incorporates all the collections and archives of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum. This is a pioneering project in Turkey. The contents of the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, the Painting Collection, the Abidin Dino Archives…
DetailsRERO, a network of more than 260 university, special, patrimonial and public libraries in Western Switzerland, is seeking a new director. The responsibilities for this position are as follows: “Under the supervision of the RERO Strategic Council, which is nominated by the CIIP (Conférence Intercantonale de l’Instruction publique de la Suisse romande et du Tessin),…
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If you could change the future of copyright in Europe in as little as 15 minutes, would you? You currently have the chance to do exactly that. Image Credit: Flickr / Images Money, CC by-2.0 Until March 5th, everyone can share opinions on copyright with the European Commission through its Copyright Consultation and yes, your…
DetailsWhat do you think of the current LIBER website? How could we improve it? Answers to those questions and more were recently gathered through our website survey. We launched the survey as a way of gathering opinions from the LIBER community ahead of a planned website redesign for 2014. Library directors, researchers and policy makers…
DetailsThe Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing in Library and Information Science (LIS’2014) will be held in conjunction with the European Conference on Data Analysis at the Jacobs University Bremen (July 2-3rd, 2014). Contributions are being sought on the role of classification and data analysis in this domain. Topics in these area include but are…
DetailsLIBER, Europe’s largest network of research libraries, has set out its position on European copyright reform through a statement which prioritises three high-level principles. The principles are: Copyright should foster, not hinder, innovation and competitiveness. Access to and use of publicly funded research should not be unduly restricted by copyright. Preservation of, and access…
DetailsFinally, it’s out! If you have been paying attention to European Commission activities, you will have noticed that the Horizon 2020 (H2020) work programme has been released. Designed to boost Europe’s knowledge driven economy, H2020 will provide a whopping €15 billion worth of funding for research and innovation activities in Europe and beyond over the…
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