By 2027, research libraries will be engaged and trusted hubs of their user communities, collaborating with each other and with local, national and international stakeholders in their role as change agents and facilitators, and taking up task in public engagement in research.
By 2027, research libraries will provide forward-looking, state-of-the-art services for collections, publishing, and curation of information and (meta-)data. These services will be relevant to and tailored for user groups inside and outside academia.
By 2027, in collaboration with researchers, research libraries stimulate, facilitate, co-develop and manage infrastructures and practices designed to take Open Science to the next level.
By 2027, the staff of research libraries have the necessary knowledge, confidence and skills to take on the organisational and technological changes enabling the new roles and tasks of research libraries.
By 2027, research libraries embody and uphold values of integrity, diversity and inclusion inside and outside the research community.
Working Groups are the primary units to conduct work on the LIBER strategy and can be seen as the lifeblood of the LIBER community. Between 10 to 15 Working Groups are simultaneously actively working on topics relating to the LIBER strategy, while engaging around 100 to 150 LIBER members. The following Steering Committees will coordinate the strategic work of the Working Groups, monitor their progress, and support the setting up of new Working Groups under the strategy plan.
By 2027, research libraries will be engaged and trusted hubs of their user communities, collaborating with each other and with local, national and international stakeholders in their role as change agents and facilitators, and taking up task in public engagement in research.
Priorities to maintain research libraries as engaged and trusted hubs
Strengthening the positioning of research libraries in the networked environment and leveraging their collaborative strength by:
Working Groups
Projects
Committee members
For questions about the Committee’s work, please contact the Chair of the Committee Anna Clements.
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By 2027, research libraries will provide forward-looking, state-of-the-art services for collections, publishing, and curation of information and (meta-)data. These services will be relevant to and tailored for user groups inside and outside academia.
Priorities to achieve state-of-the-art services:
LIBER can help with the orientation and evaluation of potential new technologies for library services and library users.
Working Groups
Committee members
For questions about the Committee’s work, please contact the Chair of the Committee David Tréfás.
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By 2027, in collaboration with researchers, research libraries stimulate, facilitate, co-develop and manage infrastructures and practices designed to take Open Science to the next level.
Priorities for advancing Open Science
Facilitating multiple, innovative roads to Open Access that establish a default setting of diverse, inclusive, and sustainable access to scholarship and research communication.
Supporting and advocating the collaborative development and management of FAIR research data.
Transforming good practices into policies and policies into good practices.
Supporting the creation, access, and usage of Open Educational Resources.
Partnering with academia to advance, adopt and implement responsible frameworks for research assessment.
Working Groups
Projects
Committee members:
For questions about the Committee’s work, please contact the Chair of the Committee Thomas Kaarsted.
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By 2027, the staff of research libraries have the necessary knowledge, confidence and skills to take on the organisational and technological changes enabling the new roles and tasks of research libraries.
Priorities for upskilling the library workforce
Developing a cohesive, modular training programme for high-level and middle management library professionals to help libraries achieve their ambitions.
Helping libraries build competency in emerging areas of library services and operations relating to the strategic priorities of engaged and trusted hubs, state-of-the-art services, and Open Science.
Working Groups
Committee members
For questions about the Committee’s work, please contact the Chair of the Committee Dóra Kalydy.
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LIBER’s Mission is to enable world-class research guided by academic values. These are currently facing growing challenges and can no longer be taken for granted. Research libraries are not just enablers of research – they can be actors themselves, committed to upholding academic values, including integrity and transparency.
The LIBER Rights & Values taskforce concentrates its actions and deliverables strictly on the core mission of academic and research libraries in relation to research and society. The taskforce makes the choice to address integrity and transparency topics in 2025-2026 within a context of European solidarity.
This work excludes direct involvement in student services, university administration, or political postures. The focus lies on reinforcing research libraries as essential actors in safeguarding and advancing European academic values through their work with researchers, scientific communities, and data infrastructures, and in empowering libraries themselves to act in accordance with these values.
Priorities & Action Points for the Rights & Values Taskforce
LIBER Rights and Values Taskforce, guided by values of Collaboration and Inclusivity, identifies three strategic priorities on which academic libraries should act as key agents of trust and progress in the European research landscape:
LIBER empowers libraries to take meaningful action to:
For questions about the Taskforce’s work, please contact the Chairs Cécile Swiatek Cassafieres and Adam Sofronijević.
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Priorities for the AI Taskforce
1. To speak on AI and research libraries’ matters at the European and global levels.
2. To collaborate with LIBER members and partnering organisations on AI and research libraries’ matters.
3. To operate as an umbrella to connect existing activities on AI in LIBER Working Groups and implement additional tactical and operational activities.
