MedOANet 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…
DetailsThe Commission has responded to the letter from stakeholders on the Licences4Europe text and data mining workshops. A response to the concerns about the Licences4Europe initiative on text and data mining outlined by representatives of researchers, science organisation, libraries and SMEs in an open letter addressed to the Commission on the 26th of February has been…
DetailsRegistration is now open for LIBER’s library Leadership Programme: a unique opportunity for library directors to empower themselves as key figures in the process of reshaping the research library. Participants in the 2½ day course will have the opportunity to develop tools that expand their capabilities, to debate with peers and to explore possible solutions to the challenges…
DetailsThe MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network) project, funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, released its Report on the National Open Access Workshops, organized in 2012 by the project partners, namely Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. The goal of the National Open Access workshops was to actively engage policy-makers and other key…
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Friedel Grant has joined the LIBER team as our new Communications Officer. She will work to update and develop the LIBER website, to share our activities and achievements with our network members and the general public and to communicate the work of our European projects such as Europeana Newspapers and Europeana Cloud. Friedel previously…
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