STEERING COMMITTEE ON HERITAGE COLLECTIONS AND PRESERVATION (SCHCP)

STEERING COMMITTEE - MEMBERSHIP

• Chair, Graham Jefcoate, Nijmegen University Library, The Netherlands
• Secretary, Marian Lefferts, Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) 
• Committee Members
  • Chris Banks, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  • Dennis Schouten, National Library of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
  • Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany

• Working Group on Heritage Collections (Joint Working Group with CERL)
• Working Group on Preservation and Digital Curation

• LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires (Map Group)
• LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group

STEERING COMMITTEE - PRIORITIES FOR 2009-2012

1. To identify the opportunities for practical cooperation with other international organisations
2. To ensure that communication channels in the fields of heritage collections and preservation are open and working and develop a particular focus on building dialogue with colleagues in central and Eastern Europe
3. Be active communication partner on EU level and partner in discussions about funding proposals / projects
4. To organise conference(s) and/or workshops and/or training events in the fields of heritage collections and preservation jointly or separately in 2010-2011

Consolidated Timetable/Agenda for 2010 (Please visit our events calendar for further details):

• Meeting about cooperation between LIBER and Europeana Travel, 7 January
• Chair SC reports on progress - LIBER Executive Board meeting, Barcelona, 20-21 January
• (keynote G Jefcoate) 3rd Art Libraries Conference: "Digitization and new technologies applications in art libraries, archives and museums", Benaki Museum, Athens, 5-6 February 2010
• LIBER, CERL and OCLC Meetings about cooperation e.g. book bindings, 24-25 February
• 4th LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group Conference, Rome, 26-28 May 2010
• 17th LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires Conference, Talllinn, 15-18 June 2010
• LIBER Annual General Council and conference, 30 June – 2 July, Århus, Denmark
  • Informal Meeting of SC/WG
  • Public meeting of SC, using the slot on the LIBER programme (provisionally 30 June, 12h30-13h30)
• CERL meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-7 November
  • CERL ATG/EC meetings, 4 November 2010
  • A joint CERL/WG for Heritage Collections Seminar on ‘History of Collections (including reconstructing virtual collections)’, 5 November 2010
  • CERL Annual General Meeting, 6 November 2010
  • Meeting of the SC/WG, 7 November 2010
• Conference on Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age, 16-17 December
  Organised by LIBER, Book & Digital Media Studies (University of Leiden), Tiele-Stichting and KB. To take place at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), The Hague

Graham Jefcoate
Chair of Steering Committee on Heritage Collections and Preservation
February 2010