LIBER works with the cultural heritage website Europeana on several EU-funded projects, and many of LIBER’s members contribute content to Europeana. Now, however, funding for Europeana and its related services is under threat because of proposed budget cuts. The proposed cuts affect the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). It provides financing to many services, including…
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LIBER’s 2013-2015 strategy includes a strong focus on Advocacy and Communications. As part of this work, we recently spoke to Ned Potter, author of The Library Marketing Toolkit: a practical guide to library marketing and branding. In this interview, he shares tips for libraries who want to increase their marketing efforts. 1. You say that libraries…
DetailsWhat is the future of the research library and how can LIBER help shape that future? That question was recently addressed by Izaskun Lacunza, executive director of LIBER, and Wilhelm Widmark, director of Stockholm University Library and member of LIBER’s executive board. The talk took place at Biblioteksdagarna 2013, a library conference hosted by the Swedish…
DetailsLIBER, along with several other representatives from the research sector, has withdrawn from the Licences for Europe dialogue on text and data mining due to concerns about the scope, composition and transparency of the process. A letter of withdrawal has been sent to the Commissioners involved in Licenses for Europe explaining the reason that these…
DetailsMedOANet Report on the European Workshop Released. The European Workshop of the MedOANet project took place in Braga (Portugal) on February 6th and 7th 2013, as part of a larger event, the UMinho Open Access Seminar, which included the MedOANet Workshop and the OpenAIREplus Interoperability Workshop. The European Workshop aimed to bring together members of…
DetailsWant information from LIBER 2013? You’ll find it here! We’re putting as much information from the conference as possible online. Here are some of the ways to learn about and share conference material. Slides from our speakers Presentation slides for most of the talks and parallel sessions can be found on the conference website. See…
DetailsThe next International UDC Seminar entitled “Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge” will take place in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, on 24-25 October 2013. The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments…
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How are digitised newspapers selected for refinement? The answer to this question will be revealed in June, when the Europeana Newspapers Project holds a workshop in Belgrade, Serbia. Digitisation experts, librarians, metadata specialists and technology providers will come together at the workshop to hear how the Europeana Newspapers Project is working to refine…
DetailsKnow yourself, listen to other people, get them involved and be prepared to learn continuously. These are traits that Hans Geleijnse, former director of Tilburg University Library and president of LIBER from 2006-2010, sees as essential for leaders in today’s libraries. As part of his quest to help librarians improve their leadership skills, Hans now…
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LIBER, its library members and the researchers they support, are actively advocating for a more flexible copyright system that will allow Text and Data Mining to be used to its full potential. We have produced a number of documents that explain the importance of Text and Data Mining and our call for a more flexible…
DetailsThe ninth annual iConference will take place 4-7 March, 2014, at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Its program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The iConference is an annual gathering of a broad spectrum of scholars and researchers from around…
DetailsThe full programme for LIBER’s 2013 conference in Munich is now available, and you can book your spot at a special “early-bird” price until April 30th. The 3-day conference is one of the biggest events in the professional library calendar, drawing around 400 delegates each year. In 2013, the conference will bring together speakers, workshops and sessions…
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