December 4, 2020 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Amsterdam) In October 2020, LIBER launched a survey on ‘The State of Research Libraries During COVID-19: How Can LIBER Support You?’ The survey is set to map and assess the impact of COVID-19 on research libraries throughout Europe thus far, as well as to help libraries prepare…
To all LIBER members, In case you haven’t heard, the Mid-Term event that was scheduled for 3-4 December 2020 has been postponed. This decision was taken by the Executive Board in liaison with the local organisers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As envisioned the Mid-Term event would be a very interactive and dynamic event and this format…
From the 18th to the 20th of April, 30 researchers and research support professionals from across Europe will come together in Barcelona. Here they will participate in the FOSTER open science trainer bootcamp. This intense three-day training event, will equip them with the skills to give training on open science to researchers in their own institutions.…
LIBER, within the framework of the EOSCpilot project, is organising the workshop: “How Research Institutions and Libraries can help deliver the European Open Science Cloud” during the IDCC18 Conference to take place in Barcelona in February 2018. About the Workshop This workshop will take place on the 19th of February 2018, 13:30 – 16:30, NH Collection…
From the 22nd to the 25th of January 2018, the city of Porto (Portugal) will host the next EUDAT Conference entitled “Putting the EOSC vision into practice”. Gathering community decision-makers and data managers, scientists & research communities, policy-makers, e-Infrastructure initiatives, research infrastructures and ESFRI projects, the EUDAT Conference will: Discuss the progress of the European…
The Open Access Week presents opportunities worldwide to promote Open Access. On 23-24 October 2017, Open Access Belgium organises the Open in order to advance science conference, with a two-day programme addressing the benefits that can be realised by making scholarly outputs openly available. Valentino Cavalli, EU Open Science Projects Officer at LIBER will kick-start the event…
Jasna, Slovakia, is mainly known for its beautiful mountains and ski slopes. But from the 3rd to the 5th of April, around 130 people from all over the world gathered here to talk about innovations in libraries in this digital age. The main topics were digital humanities and digital scholarship, open science, repositories and research data management.
On March 7 LIBER’s EU Project Manager Melanie Imming will chair a panel at the Innovation Workshop of the PREFORMA Project in Padua. The PREFORMA project works on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. This issue is also important for LIBER’s community. LIBER has therefore…
The theme of the 6th edition of the EUhackathon held at Google headquarters in Brussels last week was ‘visualising copyright evidence to inform the policy debate and support the decision making process’. The foremost objective of the initiative was to raise awareness and encourage debate around copyright and text and data mining. The goal of the…
New library systems are being launched, which will deeply affect how libraries carry out their core procedures and tasks. They include the upcoming cloud-based systems of the world‘s largest suppliers Ex Libris and OCLC, and Open Source systems under construction (e.g. Kuali OLE, KoHa). Libraries in countries across Europe and the United Kingdom are moving to…
Are you interested in the reuse and dissemination aspects within the life cycle of complex digital collections, serving as sources for scientific use? If so, then please join the workshop Opening up the collection – reuse and publishing at ELPUB 2016 on 7 June. The workshop is being jointly organised by LIBER’s Working Group on Digital Collections, the DFG-Project…
Library directors are invited to join LIBER in Paris, May 2015, for the Leadership Journées Programme. The Programme will be held at Sciences Po from 20-22 May, 2015. It is designed for 20 Library Directors who are already in leadership positions in their institutions, and who are looking ahead at delivering strategic change as libraries as…
