The program is set for the fifth annual OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Regional Council Meeting, the first to take place in Africa. The theme, “Library Community in Action: advancing knowledge, cooperation and innovation,” will address the importance of community—exploring how a cooperative approach can make a difference and what greater collaboration between…
The 80th IFLA world library and information congress will take place in Lyon, France, at the City Convention Centre from August 16th to the 22nd. The theme for this congress will be “Libraries, Citizens, Societies : Confluence for Knowledge”. Calls for communications and posters will be published on the free list IFLA-L – keep an…
LIBER recently organised a workshop on Text & Data Mining. Several prominent speakers made a convincing case for TDM and the highlights from their talks are now available to watch in a video. The video was compiled by Copyright4Creativity. More on TDM: The Perfect Swell At The British Library (workshop overview by Dr.…
Over the past few months, the Europeana Newspapers Project has been working to build an online browser that will display digital versions of historic newspapers. This tool aims to provide a simple yet effective way to search the 18 million digital newspaper pages that Europeana Newspapers will make available through Europeana and The European Library.…
September 27th, 2013 saw The Perfect Swell at the British Library in London – a LIBER Workshop on the future potential and challenges of Text and Data Mining (TDM). The Workshop boasted a full house with attendance from a wide number of European stakeholders. They included the EUA (European Universities Association), LERU (League of European…
On September 23rd 2013, LIBER representatives (Dr. Paul Ayris, President; Izaskun Lacunza, Executive Director, and Susan Reilly, EU Projects Manager) met with representatives from the Directorate General Connect in the European Commission. The meeting covered several topics of interest for the Commission, in areas where LIBER is actively working. Dr. Ayris also gave a lecture…
IFLA’s 2014 International Newspaper Conference will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 4-5th. As shown by surveys conducted by the National Library of Australia, the California Digital Newspaper Collection, the Cambridge Public Library, and others, historical newspapers are an important source of information for genealogists. Not coincidentally, the IFLA International Newspaper Conference…
IFLA’s 2014 International Newspaper Conference will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 4-5th. As the theme ‘Start Spreading the News!’ suggests, the conference will focus on the best ways to promote the use of online newspaper content. Paper proposals should be submitted by December 1st and could focus on the following topics:…
The MedOANet European Conference will take place at the National Documentation Centre / National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece, from 17 to 18 October 2013 during the International Open Access Conference. The final conference of MedOANet will serve to present the results of the project, placing them in the wider European perspectives on Open…
From October 21-27th, the global academic and research community will come together to celebrate Open Access Week. Now in its sixth year, the event is an opportunity to share the potential benefits of Open Access and to inspire wider participation so that Open Access becomes a new norm in scholarship and research. Learn…
On September 6th, the DART-Europe Board met in Senate House Library at the University of London. The DART-Europe portal makes available Open Access research theses from the libraries of LIBER members. As of today, there are 416,113 open access research theses from 541 Universities in 27 European countries available through the portal. The 2013 DART…
LIBER is hosting a workshop on text and data mining on Friday the 27th of September. The workshop is intended as a follow-up to our joint response and subsequent withdrawal from the Licences for Europe workshop on text and data mining. It is intended as a means of initiating a broader discussion around text…
