The historical first LIBER Blog post from Dr Paul Ayris, President of LIBER. It is my great pleasure to welcome all Conference guests to the 41st Annual LIBER Conference in Tartu, Estonia, which is taking place between 27 and 30 June 2012. LIBER: Visibility, Communication and Advocacy 2011-12 has been one of LIBER’s most successful…
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LIBER Members are welcome to post their comments on the Draft LIBER Strategy 2013-2015, which is available within the LIBER Intranet environment. All comments will be taken into consideration in finalizing the new LIBER Strategy. Direct link to the draft LIBER Strategy: http://libereurope.eu/openatrium/liber-members-private/node/505 If you experience any difficulties in accessing this LIBER Intranet…
DetailsDue to the implementation of the new functions, the LIBER website will be temporarily unavailable on Monday 4 June 2012 morning. The LIBER Office would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The LIBER Office would like to inform the LIBER members on the upcoming changes of the LIBER website, which will be…
DetailsWe are pleased to invite you to the Final Conference of the Europeana Regia project which will be held on Thursday 31st May 2012, from 2 pm to 6 pm, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Colbert Auditorium – 2, rue Vivienne 75002 PARIS. Since 2010, the Europeana Regia project has drawn together three royal…
DetailsWhile the final deadline for registration is approaching fast, we take great pleasure in announcing that more than 300 colleagues will be attending the upcoming LIBER Conference in Tartu, Estonia. A recent list of registered participants has now been added to the conference website, so that interested people can check whom they could meet…
DetailsAs President of LIBER, I am delighted to announce that the LIBER journal LIBER Quarterly has become an Open Access, peer reviewed journal, running under the OJS software. The first issue of volume 22 of LIBER Quarterly has been put on-line by our publisher Igitur, with two important modifications: The look is different, since the…
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Looking to the future: how do we place our service at the heart of Europe’s research communities? is the theme of this joint meeting in Bucharest. Sessions will be streamed live from the event on the day. On Monday afternoon from 2.30-2.40 PM Eastern European time, watch the keynote speech from Heike Neuroth of Gottingen…
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Read a full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in seven blog posts & more! For all those who did not manage to attend last week’s LIBER workshop “Partnering for digital curation” – and also for those who did: A full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in…
DetailsWith Jeanette Frey (Switzerland), I attended the 2nd LIBER Digital Preservation Workshop in Florence, 7-8 May. We had 80 attenders and good audience participation. A great success for LIBER, who are seen to be leading discussions in Europe in this space. Day 1Liz Lyon has challenged LIBER to lead a pan-European Working Grouping Group to…
DetailsThe newest LIBER’s project website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader. The newest LIBER’s project’s website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader. The Europeana Newspapers project aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The European Library and Europeana.…
DetailsThe LIBER Annual Conference team would like to remind that the early registration period (with a significantly discounted registration fee) will end on 30th of April 2012. Theme of the Annual Conference 2012 is “Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”. On the programme are the following prominent speakers: Jaak Aaviksoo, David Nicholas, Ellyssa Kroski, Kurt…
DetailsThe LIBER Award for Library Innovation was instituted by LIBER, with support from Elsevier. It honours the three abstracts which best describe innovative work in the field of the overall theme of the LIBER 2012 Annual Conference ‘Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe’. The Programme Committee for the 41st LIBER Annual Conference has decided to present…
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