LIBER: Who We Are, How We Can Help
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An introduction to LIBER as an organisation, and the key ways in which we help our network of 400+ libraries across Europe. Presented in Slovenia in September 2016.
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LIBER: Who We Are, How We Can Help
- 1. LIBER: LIBER: Who We Are, How We Help Ljubljana, 14th September 2016 Friedel Grant, Communications Officer, LIBER
- 2. What I’ll be talking about today Introduction to LIBER •Who we are •What we do How LIBER Can Help 1.Identifying Topics That Matter 2.Connecting You Internationally 3.Advocating For Libraries
- 3. About LIBER
- 4. We’re Europe’s largest research library network. Founded in 1971. Based in The Hague.
- 5. 400+ libraries University, national and special libraries.
- 6. LIBER Libraries across Europe. We began with 86 libraries in 15 countries.
- 7. LIBER Libraries Bosnia •National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia •National and University Library of Croatia •Library of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences •Library of the Faculty of Law, Zagreb •Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library Serbia •National Library of Serbia •Belgrade University, University library "Svetozar Markovic" Slovenia •National and University Library of Slovenia •Central Technological Library •Maribor University Library Slovakia •Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
- 8. LIBER Team
- 9. LIBER Team • 13 Board Members • 2 Special Advisors • 9 Office Staff 100+ Volunteers serving on Steering Committees, Working Groups, Fora
- 10. Our Mission: Help our libraries to support world- class research. •Collaborative •Cross border •Cross discipline •Increasingly data intensive •Open
- 12. #1. Identifying Topics That Matter: LIBER Strategy 2013-2017.
- 13. Strategy
- 14. •“LIBER is offering a lot of services which create an orientation for those institutions that need it. LIBER is like a star we look at: if we need some light, then we can ask them.’’ -Paulo Budroni, Vienna University Library
- 15. Lead in Changing Scholarship (Leadership Seminars, Skills Development) Shape Innovative Research (Advocacy, Text and Data Mining) Enable Open Science (Open Science, Open Access, RDM) Strategy
- 16. Strategy
- 17. Enable Open Science (Open Science, Open Access, RDM) Strategy WHY? We believe Open Science will deliver: •increased transparency •better quality research •higher level of citizen engagement •faster scientific discovery -LIBER statement on Enabling Open Science, http://libereurope.eu/wp- content/uploads/2014/09/LIBER_Statement-on-open-science-final.pdf
- 18. Lead in Changing Scholarship (Leadership Seminars, Skills Development) Strategy WHY? Research libraries are facing unprecedented change and opportunity. We need to embrace new ways of leading, to effectively deal with new opportunities and challenges.
- 19. Shape Innovative Research (Advocating for libraries and their researchers) Strategy WHY? As research libraries, we need to speak up for the topics that matter: •Copyright Reform •Text and Data Mining •Open Science
- 22. OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot •€4 million available to cover OA publishing fees. •Runs until April 2017. https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu
- 23. OpenAIRE FP7 Post- Grant Open Access Pilot
- 24. #2. Connecting You With An International Network of Colleagues
- 26. Join A Steering Committee, Group or Forum • 3 Steering Committees • 7 Working Groups • 2 Forums Staff from LIBER libraries are welcome to join. Email the group chair.
- 27. • It’s a Working Group, so… Advantages: • Learn from others • Share your professional knowledge – You ARE an expert • Work together for a stronger voice Expectations & Benefits
- 28. “My field is Research Data Management, where everybody is trying to find the right way but we’re not aware of what other people are actually doing. All universities and libraries have to talk to researchers and learn more about the same issues. This is something that LIBER can help with and we can profit from.” -Mijke Jetten, Scientific Information Infrastructures Working Group Member
- 29. EU Project s
- 30. 33 LIBER Libraries Active In EU Projects… ...in which LIBER is also a partner.
- 31. 6 current projects: Budget: €500,000- €10 million Partners: 5-50 Duration: 2-4 years LIBER is involved in tasks which match our strategy. For example: – Open Science – Training for Librarians – Advocacy EU Projects
- 32. “For me participating in EU Projects means learning from good practice overseas, building international networks that bring together a range of perspectives and expertise, and the opportunity to co-develop systems and services” -Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre
- 33. Why Join An EU Project? •Cross-border cooperation •Build skills •Get to know your peers •Funding EU Projects
- 34. How to get involved? 1.Find interesting upcoming calls • EU Participants portal (http://ec.europa.eu/researc h/participants/portal/desktop /en/home.html) H2020 Programme
- 35. How to get involved? 1.Find interesting upcoming calls • EU Participants portal (http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/hom e.html) 2.Find your partners • Ask around, contact LIBER 3.Participate in writing a project proposal H2020 Programme
- 36. How Can LIBER Help? •General guidance – Looking for a partner? Tell us. •Use the LIBER network to connect EU Projects
- 37. Events
- 38. LIBER Annual Conference. Europe’s biggest gathering of research library professionals.
- 39. Annual Conference • Held yearly, in locations across Europe – 2017 in Patras, Greece – 2018 in Lille, France • 3 days • 500+ Delegates from around the world
- 41. • Call for papers: Released in November • LIBER Conference Fund: free registration + €500 travel bursary – For LIBER library delegates from: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Greece, Portugal Annual Conference
- 43. • Emerging Leaders Programme – For senior librarians who aim to be Directors – 2-year programme • Journées Programme – For Library Directors – Two day seminar New sessions launching in 2017 Leadership Seminars
- 44. “I built myself a European network, with the other participants and through the mentorship experience. The Leadership Seminar is a process where you confront to your feelings, have to reveal yourself, trust in each other. It’s a strong feeling.” -Live Rasmussen, Head of Science Library, University of Oslo, Norway
- 45. Other Seminars • Architecture Seminar – Next one in 2018 – Focus on the design of library spaces • Digital Curation Workshop – Next one in Spring 2017 – Topics: Data Management Plans, Digital roadmaps for access to cultural heritage, Digital preservation
- 46. Why Attend An Event? •Gain in-depth knowledge •Meet like-minded professionals •LIBER members get a discount Events
- 47. #3. Your Views Represented in Brussels
- 48. Advocacy Strategy Open Science Open Access Copyright / TDM RDM Infrastructure
- 49. We Bring Library Issues To MEPs
- 50. We Sit On The EC’s Open Science Policy Platform
- 51. Four Open Science Cafes (Dutch Presidency Open Science Conference)
- 52. We Launched The Hague Declaration. 800+ signatures so far. Will you sign? What Does It Say? As long as people have legal access to information, they should be able to use modern techniques (eg. TDM) to analyse digital content.
- 53. We Launched The Hague Declaration. What Can Research Libraries Do? 1.Sign the declaration: www.thehaguedeclaration.com. Copyright law is being debated now. Every signature helps! 2.Promote TDM in policy and practice: provide training for researchers on content mining literacy, legal advice
- 54. To Recap LIBER: Europe’s Biggest Research Library Network We can help via our Strategy, Network & Advocacy. Just €495/year – €245 for libraries in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine
Editor's Notes
- And together, we have a common mission: to help every library which is a member of LIBER to produce world-class research. What do we mean by world-class? Well, speaking broadly here, we want our libraries to go beyond traditional roles. For centuries, libraries have supported researchers by collecting, preserving, and making journals accessible. Now, libraries need to do all of that but they also need to help researchers to connect with each other. Libraries need to share knowledge, and to act as guides. For example, librarians are increasingly helping researchers to understand how they can more effectively analyze mountains of information using technology, and they’re very important in terms of encouraging researchers to store the results and data related to their research in a sustainable way. World-class research for LIBER means research which is collaborative; research which can be performed regardless of borders between countries and disciplines, which increasingly makes use of data and analyses it using computers to draw conclusions (so here I’m talking about the use of text and data mining as a way for researchers to read and make connections between huge volumes of papers, rather than manually going through material, one publication at a time), and research which is open. And by open I mean not only open access to publications. It’s open data. It’s open source, open licenses, open APIs. Open everything. **8 minutes**
- The second thread of our strategy focuses on Leadership. Research libraries are living in a time of enormous change, but also opportunity. The technology and infrastructure we work with is changing rapidly. There is financial uncertainty for many libraries, great movements happening in the political world which affect us. And as libraries we have to imagine how all of this will evolve in the years to come, and how we can best respond. So that’s why LIBER has dedicated part of its strategy to helping its members to develop their leadership skills, and to develop a better understanding of the changing roles in libraries, new jobs and skills which need to be considered, etc. Some of the things we’re doing here include the running of leadership seminars, which give library directors and people who want to become directors the chance to develop their own leadership skills, on an individual level. Via one of the working groups, we’re also going to be running a customer satisfaction survey. The idea here is to collect customer feedback from a number of different libraries, and to use this data to identify libraries which have very high user satisfaction in particular areas. This would indicate that they might be doing something right, in the way they have structured and marketed their service and this would help the wider LIBER network to identify examples of best practice.
- We’re currently involved in six EU projects, with about 33 of our members.