The Europeana Newspapers Project will be sharing best practices at the second workshop that is coming up on September 16th and will focus on Aggregation and Presentation of historical newspapers. The workshop will be a part of The European Library’s conference “Promoting innovation in Europe” This workshop is particularly aimed at: Cultural heritage professionals (e.g.…
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An EC public consultation on open research data was recently held in Brussels on July 2nd. The LIBER office was represented by Executive Director, Izaskun Lacunza, and Projects Manager, Susan Reilly (also representing the ReCODE* project). Paul Ayris, LIBER President, made a five minute intervention on the role of libraries in opening up research data.…
DetailsLibrary users, researchers, funders and executive boards are just some of the many audiences with whom libraries currently have to communicate. At LIBER’s 42nd annual conference in Munich, the Advocacy & Communications Steering Committee explored the issue of communication through a workshop entitled The Interactive Library: Communicating Effectively With Your Stakeholders. The first presentation came from…
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The European Commission is developing an Open Data Pilot, which aims to stimulate the data-sharing culture among researchers and the re-use of information. Paul Ayris, President of LIBER, attended a key meeting about the pilot in Brussels. In this statement, he explains the relevance of this Open Data Pilot for research libraries. I recently attended…
DetailsThe National Documentation Centre, in conjunction with MedOANet Project, is pleased to announce the 2013 International Open Access Conference @ EKT, the third in a series of international conferences on Open Access organized by the National Documentation Centre since 2008. The event will take place at the National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation…
DetailsTechniques for refining and assessing the quality of digitised historical newspapers were the main topic of discussion at a recent Europeana Newspapers workshop at the University Library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade, Serbia. In the first Europeana Newspapers Workshop participants discussed challenges that arise when making digitised historical newspapers fully searchable. Newspapers were not meant to last, but…
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EBSCO Discovery Service unveils the precious resources libraries so carefully invest their time and money in, and this benefits the research efforts of their students. Much effort goes into researching, evaluating and budgeting for resources a library offers. The last thing a library wants is to have this time and money wasted because their end…
DetailsLIBER – along with other library associations, consortia, and professional librarians in over 150 countries – is calling for an effective treaty that will increase access to information for visually impaired people. Many years of negotiations have gone into creating such a treaty. It is hoped that this process will finish later this month, with…
DetailsWhat is the role of the library in terms of dealing with data, and how might this role change in the future? That question was recently discussed at a workshop organised by LIBER and OpenAIRE. The workshop included presentations and discussions from nearly 20 speakers. Key learning points from the session included: the existence of a…
DetailsPromoting innovation in Europe – The European Library partnership of research and national libraries, 16-17 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The European Library will be organising a two day event ‘Promoting innovation in Europe’ in Amsterdam.The event will feature some of the projects The European Library is involved with (e.g. Europeana Newspapers, CENDARI, Europeana Cloud)…
DetailsThe Europeana Newspapers second newsletter is out!
It’s filled with inside views, accounts of project events, highlighted partners and announcements of new events.
Enjoy the 2nd issue of the Europeana Newspapers Newsletter!
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The Europeana Newspapers project is asking European libraries with newspaper collections to take its survey on the extent of newspaper digitisation. The new survey is a follow-up on the original poll, conducted in 2012. It found that access to digitised newspapers is nearly always free of charge but that access to 20th century content…
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