We are pleased to invite you to the Final Conference of the Europeana Regia project which will be held on Thursday 31st May 2012, from 2 pm to 6 pm, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Colbert Auditorium – 2, rue Vivienne 75002 PARIS. Since 2010, the Europeana Regia project has drawn together three royal…
While the final deadline for registration is approaching fast, we take great pleasure in announcing that more than 300 colleagues will be attending the upcoming LIBER Conference in Tartu, Estonia. A recent list of registered participants has now been added to the conference website, so that interested people can check whom they could meet…
As President of LIBER, I am delighted to announce that the LIBER journal LIBER Quarterly has become an Open Access, peer reviewed journal, running under the OJS software. The first issue of volume 22 of LIBER Quarterly has been put on-line by our publisher Igitur, with two important modifications: The look is different, since the…
Looking to the future: how do we place our service at the heart of Europe’s research communities? is the theme of this joint meeting in Bucharest. Sessions will be streamed live from the event on the day. On Monday afternoon from 2.30-2.40 PM Eastern European time, watch the keynote speech from Heike Neuroth of Gottingen…
Read a full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in seven blog posts & more! For all those who did not manage to attend last week’s LIBER workshop “Partnering for digital curation” – and also for those who did: A full account of the workshop in summaries, photographs and comments in…
With Jeanette Frey (Switzerland), I attended the 2nd LIBER Digital Preservation Workshop in Florence, 7-8 May. We had 80 attenders and good audience participation. A great success for LIBER, who are seen to be leading discussions in Europe in this space. Day 1Liz Lyon has challenged LIBER to lead a pan-European Working Grouping Group to…
The newest LIBER’s project website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader. The newest LIBER’s project’s website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader. The Europeana Newspapers project aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The European Library and Europeana.…
The LIBER Annual Conference team would like to remind that the early registration period (with a significantly discounted registration fee) will end on 30th of April 2012. Theme of the Annual Conference 2012 is “Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”. On the programme are the following prominent speakers: Jaak Aaviksoo, David Nicholas, Ellyssa Kroski, Kurt…
The LIBER Award for Library Innovation was instituted by LIBER, with support from Elsevier. It honours the three abstracts which best describe innovative work in the field of the overall theme of the LIBER 2012 Annual Conference ‘Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe’. The Programme Committee for the 41st LIBER Annual Conference has decided to present…
LIBER members, partners and followers are welcome to freely use, print and share LIBER promotional leaflets. Now available in more than 15 European languages! LIBER’s communication activities reflect the language diversity of the European continent, which has resulted in the publishing of more than 15 language versions of its promotional leaflet. All the versions are available…
LIBER has the pleasure to welcome its newest colleague. Marieke Willems has joined the LIBER Office this week. She will be responsible for communication activities relating to European projects in which LIBER is a partner. Marieke holds a MSc in Communication science from the Radboud University in Nijmegen and a Master in Business Administration from the Escuela…
LIBER was represented at the Horizon 2020 Consultation in Rome by its President Paul Ayris and its Project Officer, Susan Reilly. During this 2 day event in Rome libraries came under the spotlight as having a key role to play in advocating for, proving training in, and producing guidelines in order to support researchers in…
