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Farewell and Thank-you to Outgoing Executive Committee Members (2012-2015)
On behalf of our members we would like to say thank you to all outgoing EC Members:
President: Klaus-Peter Böttger (Germany)
Vice-President: Glòria Pérez-Salmerón (Spain)
Treasurer: Erna Winters (The Netherlands)
Members:
Guy Daines (United Kingdom)
Ulrika Domellöf Mattsson (Sweden)
Georgios Glossiotis (Greece)
Lone Knakkergaard (Denmark)
Gerald Leitner (Austria)
Maria Jose Moura (Portugal)
Aldo Pirola (Italy)
Leena Toivonen (Finland)
(Note: On the picture G. Glossiotis (Greece) and MJ Moura (Portugal) are missing)
We are very grateful for your dedication, commitment, hard work and for your service to our members & our libraries during your three year term as Members of the Executive Committee of EBLIDA.
It has been a great pleasure working with you and we wish you all the very best in your future endeavours. We look forward to your continued support, presence and involvement in EBLIDA.
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EBLIDA Council Meeting
About 60 people attended the EBLIDA Council Meeting. We voted for new members, decided on cancellations, and learned about the annual report and the work programme for the coming year and we approved the budget of the Association.
The exciting moment came with the election of a new president and Executive Committee members.
For this election, EBLIDA received one nomination for president: Jukka Relander and thirteen nominations for executive committee members for ten seats.
With the approval of council members, it was decided to elect the president by acclamation rather than with ballot papers. Jukka Relander was elected unanimously by acclamation of the Council members present in the room.
With the approval of Council members, it was decided to elect Executive Committee members with secret ballots.
The result of the formal process of the elections is as follows (in alphabetical order:
- Steen Bording Andersen (Denmark, DLA)
- Guy Daines (United Kingdom, CILIP)
- Ulrika Domellöf Mattsson (Sweden, SLA)
- Gerald Leitner (Austria, BVÖ)
- Barbara Lison (Germany, BID)
- Charles Noordam (Netherlands, FOBID)
- Stefano Parise (Italy, AIB)
- Jean-Marie Reding (Luxembourg, ALBAD)
- Alicia Sellés Carot (Spain, FESABID)
- Uldis Zarins (Latvia, LBB)
EBLIDA would like to thank the members who were not elected for their participation and their commitment (in alphabetical order):
- Marita Ahola (Finland, Finnish Research Library Association)
- Susanne Holmlund (Finland, Swedish-Finish Library Association)
- Roxanna Theodorou (Greece, Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists)
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Congratulations to the newly elected and re-elected Executive Committee members (2015-2018) and thank you to all candidates
Following the first Executive Committee meeting that took place on 7 May, 2015 after the Council, the Vice-President and Treasurer were appointed.
President: Jukka Relander (Finland)
Vice-President: Barbara Lison (Germany)
Treasurer: Gerald Leitner (Austria - 2nd Term)
Members:
Steen Bording Andersen (Denmark)
Guy Daines (United Kingdom - 2nd Term)
Ulrika Domellof-Mattsson (Sweden - 2nd Term)
Charles Noordam (Netherlands)
Stefano Parise (Italy)
Jean-Marie Reding (Luxembourg)
Alicia Sellés Carot (Spain)
Uldis Zarins (Latvia)
(Note: On the picture Barbara Lison (Germany) is missing).
We look forward to working together with you and to make progress together!
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23rd EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting & EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference, Riga, Latvia
The Conference of EBLIDA was well-run thanks to the wonderful organisation of the National Library of Latvia and a good programme variety of keynote speeches, round tables and breakout sessions.
 Uldis Zariņš from the National Library of Latvia kindly moderated the day’s activities, inviting and introducing speakers on stage and giving necessary information to participants. He opened the day by giving the floor to Linda Pavļuta, advisor to the Minister of Culture, speaking on behalf of Dace Melbārde, Minister of Culture of Latvia. Ms Pavļuta underlined that “Latvia counts 2000 libraries, and that each Latvian can access a library within twenty minutes.
 Arvils Ašeradens, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia interestingly mentioned that libraries are “a great asset to the social and economic fabric of countries”, and we couldn’t agree more.
Andris Vilks, Director, National Library of Latvia, highlighted that “the mission of libraries is to make people’s lives better by making them smarter”.
 Kristīne Pabērza, President, Library Association of Latvia walked the audience through the EU strategy 2020 focussing on the concept of smart growth: the strengthening of knowledge and innovation as drivers of future growth. She stated that in that context “Literacy is a pre-requisite to achieving this goal. The ability to read, understand and be understood is becoming more important than ever. Libraries in Latvia and all over Europe are and will serve as the gateway to the future by providing lifelong access to resources, knowledge and tools. All to ensure that our citizens’ skills remain relevant to the current economy as it continues to evolve”.
 Jan Braeckman, Chair of NAPLE, whet the appetite of the audience by describing the key notes and the discussions and by reversing the title Building a Europe of Readers to focus on the concept of Readers, Building and Europe from a Public Library perspective, highlighting the importance of being able to discuss library issues from a Pan-European perspective.
 Klaus-Peter Böttger, outgoing EBLIDA President, opened the first session For a Knowledge-Based Europe by reminding the audience that “literacy is a key issue at the European level and that it is not acceptable to have 1 in 5 Europeans having difficulty in reading”. To fight illiteracy, libraries cannot be seen from an economic perspective only. “Libraries in helping to build a Europe of readers are helping to achieve a knowledge- based Europe”.
We had the chance to welcome two members of the European Parliament.
 Sylvie Guillaume, Vice President of the European Parliament, gave an interesting video message on the always evolving role of libraries and librarians in an ever-changing environment. She smartly referred to Albert Einstein’s attributed quote drawing a link between libraries and bees in saying “if bees were to disappear from the earth, the world would only have 4 years to live”, thus implying that libraries are as vital as bees, a notion which we fully support!
 Inese Vaidere, Member of the European Parliament, gave a short introduction in English underlining the importance for Cultural Diversity in Europe and how important it is for her to speak in her mother tongue. She then gave her talk in beautiful Latvian. We were happy to hear her saying that “libraries are key to the EU2020 strategy and they should be better supported”.
Sven Birkerts, the first keynote speaker, highlighted that “libraries are about reading, about preserving content, processing information” and that a “new set of rules apply”.
 Divina Frau-Meigs concluded the keynote speeches with a presentation focusing on four main points:
1. young people, libraries and trans-literacies, 2. public policies, 3. modes of governance for libraries and 4. the meaning of libraries’ public service mandate, including the rights to access, create and distribute cultural content.
She concluded her speech with the role of library associations that should fight for access and equity (e.g. need for an internationally binding instrument on copyright limitations surrounding licensing of online content), fight for e-inclusion and fight for global information commons.
To better maintain their public service mandates, “libraries should move towards digital humanities and new public services online, new literacies and reorganisation of knowledge around information”.
She concluded by saying that “the pre-digital library form can “deliver” if it moves with the digital uses of young people”.
Session 1 continued with a forty minute panel session moderated by Kate Russel from the BBC.
A lot of issues were addressed during the panel debate that you can see here.
Attendants broke into two workshops:
Workshop 1.Building Literacy Advocacy: the role of libraries and library associations, organised by EBLIDA, Library Association of Latvia, ELINET – with the participation of keynote speaker Prof. Divina Frau-Meigs.
The aim of the workshop was to generate ideas regarding literacy advocacy at three levels: local, national and European.
Participants dealt with the question of literacy, libraries, the role of national library associations, European policies and politics, including EBLIDA’s position paper entitled Libraries and Literacy, and the Elinet Project.
Those issues were identified through six key words: partnerships, skills, source and resources for professionals, visibility, impact, use of IT, and inclusion (social and e-inclusion).
Workshop 2. Skilled by My Library: Connecting Policy and Practice in the EU, was organised by NAPLE and the Reading and Writing Foundation – with the participation of Ms. Gina Ebner, Secretary General, European Association for the Education of Adults.
The workshop focussed on adult education and the way to raise awareness of policy makers on the part libraries can play in the learning process and the actions to be undertaken to connect library associations and the European Commission’s coordinators on Adult Education.
The day’s concluding session was entitled What’s Next.
 Kate Russel (replacing Ryan Heath who was unable to attend) did a wonderful job wrapping up the day.
She summarised the keynotes and panel discussions, and thanked the delegates for their participation and the hosts, the Latvian Presidency and the Library of Latvia for the enlightening day.
As an author, she insisted that “it is really important for me that my work is available to all. Writers don’t work to become wealthy. We write because it’s a passion”. She supported the importance of EBLIDA’s work in “promoting and defending the interests of libraries, archivists and the information community at large in the digital age” as well as the Right to E-Read Campaign.
Kate also insisted on the fact that “The old fashioned view of a librarian needs to be wiped out. They are becoming custodians of context in an ever-increasing forest of information, both in the form of atoms and bits. Librarians need to become our guides across multiple platforms, disciplines and trans-literacies. They need to be given enough training and support to be able to keep up with technological change […]”. She also highlighted the need to engage with youth, especially through digital means, with ebooks for instance.
She concluding her talk by inviting delegates to work on “how to make a visit to the library a journey into the future? ”.
Immediately after this conclusion, and before session was turned over to Jukka Relander, the new elected President, the National Library of Latvia showed a video on reading promotion for children and parents in Latvia. The event brings together each year 17000 people to the Annual Grand Jury. This very successful event originated from the Netherlands and was smartly imported and adapted to the country.
 Jukka Relander, the last speaker of the day and incoming EBLIDA President, closed the meetings by expressing his will to begin his Presidency in a listening mode so as to collect and gather all the important ideas and information from the librarian community to help drafting EBLIDA’s future direction.
Meanwhile, he highlighted that the key issues remaining at the core of EBLIDA are: Literacy, e-books and copyright.
He thanked the assembly and invited attendants to join together for the group picture
The Conference was webstreamed throughout the day, with the exception of the breakout sessions, and is accessible here.
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May
May 14 – 17, 6th Warsaw Book Fair
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Sponsor/Organizer: Targi Ksiazki Ltd.
URL: http://www.targi-ksiazki.waw.pl/en/
May 14 – 18, 28th Turin International Book Fair
Place: Turin, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura
URL: http://www.salonelibro.it/en/
May 17 – 30, Prague Summer Seminar
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Sponsor/Organizer: University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Charles University
URL: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/prague
May 17 – 30, London Summer Seminar
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and University College, London (UCL)
URL: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/london
May 18, 3rd International Workshop on Linked Media
Place: Florence, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2015/
May 18, Training in information literacy at the time of Web 2.0 and discovery tools
Place: Gembloux, Belgium
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://infolit.be/ILIB15/
May 18 – 19, ORCID-CASRAI Joint conference: "Research Evaluation, with an emphasis on emerging practice in the Humanities and Social Sciences"
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: ORCID, Inc. and Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI)
URL: http://www.orcid-casrai-2015.org/
May 18 – 22, 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015)
Place: Florence, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2)
URL: http://www2015.wwwconference.org/
May 19, 2015 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015)
Place: Florence, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://cs.unibo.it/save-sd/2015/index.html
May 19, 1st International Workshop on Multilingual Web Access (MWA 2015)
Place: Florence, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.multilingualwebaccess.org/
May 19, 2015 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015)
Place: Florence, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://cs.unibo.it/save-sd/2015/index.html
May 19, ALPSP Training Course: Project Management for Publishing
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
URL: http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/Meetings/Meeting.aspx?ID=430
May 19 – 21, 14th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI)
Place: Zadar, Croatia
Sponsor/Organizer: German Academic Association for Information Science (Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft e. V.) and Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar
URL: http://isi2015.de/?lang=en
May 20 – 21, Search Marketing Expo – SMX London 2015
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Third Door Media
URL: http://searchmarketingexpo.com/london/
May 20 – 22, LIBER Journées Programme
Place: Paris, France
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)
URL: http://libereurope.eu/liber-journees-for-library-directors/
May 20 – 22, 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies – WEBIST 2015
Place: Lisbon, Portugal
Sponsor/Organizer: WEBIST Secretariat
URL: http://www.webist.org/
May 21 – 22, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technologies (10th DESRIST Conference) 2015
Place: Dublin, Ireland
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://desrist2015.computing.dcu.ie/#home
May 21 – 22, Kuopio 5: "Aligning commercial and public document repositories to facilitate free and sustainable information"
Place: Kuopio, Finland
Sponsor/Organizer: National Repository Library of Finland
URL: http://www.varastokirjasto.fi/kuopio5/
May 22 – 23, BiblioPride 2015
Place: Milan, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB)
URL: http://www.ifla.org/node/9225
May 24 – 27, Getting ready for the unexpected – Information Systems for Crisis Management in a complex and uncertain world (ISCRAM2015)
Place: Kristiansand, Norway
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://iscram2015.uia.no/
May 26, 2015 Developmental Workshop on Open Research and Practice in Information Systems
Place: Munster, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice (SIGOPEN)
URL: http://sigopen.org/
May 26 – 27, INFORUM 2015: 21st Conference on Professional Information Resources
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Sponsor/Organizer: Albertina icome Prague, University of Economics
URL: http://www.inforum.cz/en/
May 26 – 29, Bibliothekartag 2015
Place: Nuremberg, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.bibliothekartag2015.de/
May 26 – 29, 9th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-15)
Place: Oxford, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
URL: http://icwsm.org/2015/
May 26 – 29, 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015)
Place: Münster, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://ecis2015.eu/
May 26 – 29, 7th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2015)
Place: Paris, France
Sponsor/Organizer: International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology (ISAST)
URL: http://www.isast.org/
May 27 – 29, Islandora Camp EU2
Place: Madrid, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: Islandora Foundation
URL: http://islandora.ca/camps/eu2015
May 28 – 30, 14th Spanish Conference on Documentation: "Open Culture: Knowledge Sharing"
Place: Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: Federación Española de Sociedades de Archivística, Biblioteconomía, Documentación y Museística (FESABID)
URL: http://www.fesabid.org/gijon2015/
May 29, From the Toolbox: BitCurator Digital Forensics workshop
Place: Vienna, Austria
Sponsor/Organizer: Open Planets Foundation (OPF) Labs
URL: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2015-05-29+From+the+Toolbox+-+BitCurator+Digital+Forensics+workshop
May 29, Open Access and its Impact on Research and Scholarship
Place: Bugibba, Malta
Sponsor/Organizer: University of Malta (UoM) Library
URL: http://nipora.com/bugibba-open-access-and-its-impact-on-research-and/319812
May 29 – June 14, 74th Book Fair Madrid
Place: Madrid, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.ferialibromadrid.com/
May 31 – June 4, 12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Place: Porteroz, Slovenia
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://2015.eswc-conferences.org/
June 2015
June 3 – 5, IFLA President's Meeting 2015: "The Art of Transforming Libraries"
Place: Istanbul, Turkey
Sponsor/Organizer: IFLA
URL: http://meetings.ankos.org.tr/ifla2015/
June 3 – 6, 25th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, EJC2015
Place: Maribor, Slovenia
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.tut.fi/en/ejc/
June 4 – 5, 3rd International Seminar on Education and Research (LIS-ER)
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: University of Barcelona School of Library and Information Science
URL: http://bd.ub.edu/liser/
June 6 – 10, Cycling for Libraries (Cyclo-Biblio 2015)
Place: Basel, Switzerland to Strasbourg, France
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org/?page_id=8341#english
June 8 – 10, Web Archives as Scholarly Sources: Issues, Practices and Perspectives
Place: Aarhus, Denmark
Sponsor/Organizer: RESAW, a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials
URL: http://resaw.eu/
June 8 – 11, European Business School Librarians’ Group (EBSLG) General Meeting 2015
Place: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sponsor/Organizer: European Business School Librarians’ Group (EBSLG)
URL: http://www.ebslg2015.unisg.ch/
June 8 – 11, 39th European Library Automation Group Systems Seminar (ELAG 2015): "Data"
Place: Stockholm, Sweden
Sponsor/Organizer: European Library Automation Group (ELAG)
URL: http://elag.org/
June 9 – 12, 25th International Conference on Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases: EJC 2015
Place: Maribor, Slovenia
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://ejc2015.um.si/
June 15 – 19, 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference
Place: Prague, Czech Republic
Sponsor/Organizer: CIAO! (Cooperation, Interoperability, Architecture, and Ontology) Network
URL: http://ciaonetwork.org/events/current-events/5th-enterprise-engineering-working-conference
June 17, The Eternal To-Do: Making Ebooks Work in Libraries (NISO Virtual Conference)
Place: Online only
Sponsor/Organizer: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
URL: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/eternal_ebooks/
June 17 – 19, CERN Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication (OAI9)
Place: Geneva, Switzerland
Sponsor/Organizer: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Organizing Committee
URL: http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370
June 17 – 20, Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference: "Information & media literacy for lifelong learning: digital citizenship for a digital age"
Place: Bihac, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.wbilc2015.kbbi.ba/en/
June 19, 6th Evolution of Technical Communication conference (ETC 2015)
Place: Sofia, Bulgaria
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://etc-conference.eu/about
June 23, Making Metadata Work
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: ISKO UK (UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization), IRSG (Information Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT), and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)
URL: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/BibData/mmw
June 23, ALPSP Training Course: Understanding Copyright
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
URL: http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/Meetings/Meeting.aspx?ID=416
June 24 – 25, The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015)
Place: Valetta, Malta
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/archives-and-records-australia/yMCWYaTERi0
June 24 – 26, 2015 Business Librarians Association (BLA) Conference
Place: Liverpool, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: 2015 Business Librarians Association (BLA)
URL: http://www.blalib.org/annual-conference-2015-conference-95
June 24 – 26, 44th LIBER Annual Conference: "Towards Open Science"
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)
URL: http://www.liber2015.org.uk/
June 25 – 26, 1st Annual Conference on Digital Preservation for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (DPASSH2015): "Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding the Social and Cultural Record”
Place: Dublin, Ireland
Sponsor/Organizer: Digital Repository of Ireland
URL: http://www.dri.ie/dpassh-2015
June 26, The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril: Theft, Retrieval, Sale and Restitution of rare books, maps and manuscripts
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: British Library
URL: http://www.bl.uk/events/the-written-heritage-of-mankind-in-peril
June 28 – July 2, 44th Annual International Conference & 17th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship
Place: Maastricht, Netherlands
Sponsor/Organizer: International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)
URL: http://iasl2015.org/
June 29 – July 3, 15th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2015)
Place: Istanbul, Turkey
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.issi2015.org/en/
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During week 16, the EBLIDA Director had meetings with several members of the European Parliament.
On 6 May, 2015 in Brussels, the European Commission launched its official Digital Single Market Strategy.
