The LIBER Office would like to wish all LIBER libraries, the wider library and cultural heritage community, a wonderful holiday season. Our office will be close for two weeks on 22 December 2014 and will reopen on 5 January 2015. During the Christmas break, please don’t forget to consider submitting a paper or poster proposal…
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…
The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has taken newspaper content from libraries in 23 European countries and made them searchable via a historic newspaper browser. “For the first time in history we have the opportunity to do transnational comparative research on the basis of big data!“ says Toine Pieters, digital humanities…
Eva Dahlbäck (@KreativaEva) is Librarian and Acting Head of Customer Services at Stockholm University Library. In this guest post, she explains how Stockholm University Library recently developed the Viola system to collect books more efficiently from the closed stacks. Eva also presented about Viola at LIBER 2014, and her talk was the most highly rated…
LIBER sends a Mailing to all LIBER libraries four times a year, in March, May, August and November. Traditionally these Mailings were only accessible to members but from today, we’re making them publicly available on the website. You can read the November 2014 Mailing here and a list of all Mailings will be kept on this page. In…
The LIBER Executive Board is very pleased to announce that following its recent recruitment for a new Executive Director, and interviews held in the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague on 20 November 2014, Ms Susan Reilly has been appointed as LIBER Executive Director. She will take up her post on 1 December…
The ReCODE project has leveraged existing networks, communities and projects to address challenges within the open access, data dissemination and preservation sector. In the ReCODE project different European stakeholders including LIBER are working on policy recommendations for open access to research data based on existing good practice. This final conference will showcase the results from RECODE…
The Call for Papers for LIBER’s 2015 Annual Conference — to be held in London, UK from 24-26 June — is now open. Submit your papers here for the conference, which will focus on the theme Towards Open Science. Open Science is underpinned by the following broad principles: Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data Public…
On Thursday the 11th of November, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), in cooperation with the Committee on Culture and Education held a special hearing on “The Future Development of Copyright in Europe”. The hearing took place on the foot of the announcement by Jean-Claude Juncker that, within the first six months of his…
LIBER is actively supporting Open Access publications through its own journal, LIBER Quarterly, which operates without publication charges. By considering to publish your own papers in LIBER Quarterly, you may help us in our effort to make it Europe’s best OA journal in Library and Information Sciences. By registering as a ‘reader’ and/or ‘author’,you will…
At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The Declaration, initiated in 2012 by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognises the need to improve the ways in…
