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22
Feb
2012
LIBER has won its first tender contract for a "Study on AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) platforms and services for scientific data/information resources in Europe". Read more »
21
Feb
2012
The LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation and the National Library of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, is pleased to announce the 2nd LIBER international workshop on digital preservation, Partnerships in curating European digital resources, that will be held in Florence on 7 - 8 May 2012. For details of the programme and registration see
http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/liber2012-internationalworkshop.phtml
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20
Feb
2012
The Europeana Libraries project is working to build a robust aggregation model based on The European Library, which will make metadata to digital content from research and national libraries across Europe available on both Europeana and the new European Library portal. This handbook explains to data providers how this aggregation infrastructure can be used. Read more »
17
Feb
2012
What is Linked Open Data? Europeana launches Linked Open Data Pilot and Animation Read more »
16
Feb
2012
The Conference will be held 27-30 June 2012, in Tartu, Estonia.
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16
Feb
2012
A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service.
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14
Feb
2012
After New Delhi (2010) and Kuala Lumpur (2011), the next IFLA International Newspaper Conference will be held in Paris, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, April 11-13, 2012. The Conference will take place during a major exhibition dedicated to the “History of the Newspapers in France” at the BnF. Read more »
13
Feb
2012
Open letter to Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi - Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee and Head of Global Academic & Customer Relations Read more »
06
Feb
2012
11,000 Open Access theses from 20 Italian universities in Dart Europe Read more »
02
Feb
2012
The LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation, in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale in Florence and the National Library of the Netherlands, organises the second international workshop on digital preservation, called Partnerships in curating European digital resources. Read more »
02
Feb
2012
Are you dynamic and flexible, and would you like to work for an international library organisation? Do you have broad knowledge and understanding of the current movements in the library business? Do you have experience implementing communication activities? Do you have a good oral and written knowledge of English, and a familiarity with other European languages? Do you have talent for working with stakeholders from different countries? Read more »
01
Feb
2012
LIBER 41st Annual Conference, University of Tartu Library, Tartu, Estonia [27-30 June 2012]
“Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”
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31
Jan
2012
The public consultation on scientific information in the digital age, which was recently undertaken by the European Commission, spurred great interest among a variety of stakeholders, with 1140 responses received from 42 countries. Read more »
23
Jan
2012
Reshape, refurbish, reorganise:designing the sustainable library Read more »
16
Jan
2012
LIBER 41st Annual Conference, University of Tartu Library, Tartu, Estonia [27-30 June 2012]
“Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”
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11
Jan
2012
LIBER is delighted to wecome the newest member of its team. Read more »
21
Dec
2011
The ERAC (European Research Area Committee) on National Open Access and Preservation Policies has published a report called "Analysis of a Questionnaire to the European Research Area Committee". The report shows that open access is backed by a growing number of universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe. Read more »
20
Dec
2011
Europeana has just published a report, Culture on the Go, from web analysts CIBER. It shows how access to information is changing as more web browsing happens on smartphones and tablets. This shift will have a radical impact on the design and functionality of Europeana and other websites. Read more »
19
Dec
2011
The LIBER Office will be closed during the Christmas and New Year’s period, from 26/12 until 8/1.
On behalf of the LIBER Board and the LIBER Office, I wish you and your colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012!
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14
Dec
2011
The DISH 2011 conference in Rotterdam saw a wide mix of organisations come together to share their experiences and strategies for digital heritage. Read more »
14
Dec
2011
LIBER attended the annual general meeting of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators, which took place in Rotterdam on the 6th of December. Read more »
27
Nov
2011
The LIBER Working Group on e-Science will be organising the second of four workshops on libraries and research data during the 7th IDCC conference on Monday 5th of December. Read more »
22
Nov
2011
This is your opportunity to make your voice heard at Westminster and Brussels. In 2009 the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Collections Trust (CT) published one of the few empirical pieces of evidence - In From the Cold - on the scale and impact of orphan works (works for which the rights holders are unknown or cannot be traced) on galleries, libraries, archives and libraries specifically and other organisations more broadly. Orphan works represent a significant barrier to education, research and innovation. Their management requires disproportionate amounts of public funds at a time of austerity, and the significant difficulties of tracing rights holders results in a potential black hole of 20th and 21st century digital content. Read more »
21
Nov
2011
LIBER welcomes the Commission’s efforts to harness the opportunities offered by new technology to boost the market in audiovisual content. But we fear that the Green Paper is too narrow in scope, in terms of the types of institutions that it addresses (namely only film heritage institutions) and in terms of the types of activity that it proposes to harmonise (preservation and in-house consultation). Read more »
21
Nov
2011
Information Sans Frontières (ISF) is a copyright Alliance formed in the Summer of 2011, which is designed to act as a platform for lobbying on copyright and IPR issues at a European level which concern research, teaching and learning. The founding partners are OSI (Open Society Institute), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), Europeana, EBLIDA and LIBER.
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