ANNUAL MEETING OF PARTICIPANTSTARTU, ESTONIA

29 JUNE 2012

OPENING REMARKS

Dr Paul AyrisLIBER President

MINUTES OF MEETING OF PARTICIPANTS

BARCELONA, 2011

REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD

Dr Ann MathesonLIBER Secretary-General

Executive Board Report

Meeting of ParticipantsJuly 2012

Executive Board Meetings

• Barcelona, June/July 2011• London, October 2011• Munich, February 2012• Tartu, June 2012

Board Priorities 2011-2012

• Professional work of the Steering Committees• Leadership Programme

• EU-funded Projects and EU Lobbying • Developing the Annual Conference through the Conference Programme Committee

• LIBER Strategy 2013-2015• LIBER Office

LIBER Membership June 2012

• Institution: 373• Organisation 19 • Associate: 9• Individual: 11

Total: 412

LIBER Annual Conference Fund• Nine awards made by the Conference Programme Committee in 2012

• Fund created by LIBER members to assist attendance at LIBER Conferences

LIBER Annual Conference 2013•Munich, Germany, 26 June to 29 June 2013

•Hosted by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

Annual Conference 2014•Varna, Bulgaria, 25 June to 28 June 2014

•Hosted by the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

given byKristiina Hormia-Poutanen

LIBER Vice-President

ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2011

AUDITOR’S REPORT 2011

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT

2011 2010

Income 286.166 211.356

Expenditure 283.868 162.678

Net income 2.298 48.678

INCOME

2011 2010

Participants 143.560 138.190Annual Conference 26.763 18.500Sponsorships 47.510 41.500Workshops 18.169 5.416Other 49.256 1.074

EXPENDITURE

2011 2010

Staff 149.040 98.186Board/Comm 19.656 6.334Secretariate 55.645 21.635Operating costs 25.248 30.932Other 40.279 5.591

Balance Sheet

2011 2010AssetsReceivables 34.390 16.903Securities - 149.627Liquid Assets 517.125 362.819

551.515 529.349

Equities & LiabilitiesGeneral Reserves 442.437 393.759Result 2.298 48.678Current Liabilities 106.780 86.912

551.515 529.349

APPOINTMENTS TO THE LIBER EXECUTIVE BOARD

Appointments:LIBER Treasurer

Nomination:Dr Matthijs Van Otegem, National Library of The Netherlands

APPOINTMENTS TO THE LIBER EXECUTIVE BOARD

Board Members:Nominations:Mr Wilhelm Widmark, Stockholm University Library

Mr Kurt De Belder, Leiden University Libraries

APPOINTMENTS TO THE LIBER EXECUTIVE BOARD

Reappointments:President: Dr Paul Ayris, UCLVice-President: Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of

Finland

Board Members:Mr Julien Roche, Lille University LibraryDr Márta Virágos, Debresen University LibraryProfessor Norbert Lossau, Göttingen State and University

LibraryMs Deborah Shorley, Imperial College London

REPORT ON EU PROJECTS

Susan ReillyLIBER EU Projects Officer

LIBER EU Project Activity

Susan ReillyTartu, 29th June 2012

Overview

First EU project in 2010Portfolio of 6 EU projects (and growing)Recognising libraries as part of the European research infrastructure

Project Role Call

Opportunties for Data Exchange (ODE)

Final event November 2012Two reports: Linking Data to Publications, Best Practice

in Data Citation (2011) & the Role of Libraries in Data Exchange (2012)

Project Role Call

Alliance for Permanent Access to the Recordof Science in Europe Network (APARSEN)

Digital preservation roadmap for libraries based on a survey of experts from national and research libraries

Report on ‘Trust’ about to be published

Project Role Call

Europeana Libraries

Launch of the new European Library PortalOpening of the aggregation service to research libraries

Project Role Call

Europeana Newspapers

First workshop on OCR, OLR and EDM held in May

Work begun on enhancing newspaper content

Project Role Call

Medditeranean Open Access Network (MEDOANET)

Coordination of Open Access policies in the region (though surveys, task forces, workshops)

Survey of stakeholders in each region

Project Roll Call

Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting (AAA)

A researcher passport- facilitating seemless access and reuse, overview of RI landscape

Final report (Sep, 2012) will inform the work of Horizon 2020

Thank you!

STEERING COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Scholarly Communication (Dr Ayris)• Digitisation and Resource Discovery (Ms Frey)• Heritage Collection and Preservation (Dr Fabian)• Organisation and Human Resources (Mr Roche)• LIBER Services (Dr Virágos)• Communications & Marketing Committee (Dr Ayris)

LIBER Blog

LIBER Blog

Presentation at 41st LIBER Annual Conference

Tartu, Estonia

Meeting of participants, 29 June 2012

Purpose of the LIBER Blog

• new means of disseminating news items and conference reports, formerly contained in LIBER Quarterly.

• easy tool for publishing LIBER members’: projects / developments / news / ideas / experiences / etc.

• groundwork for the future LIBER Resource Centre (tags)

More info at: http://www.libereurope.eu/blog/how-to-contribute-to-the-liber-blog

How to contribute?

• To send a complete blog post to the LIBER Blog team, who will publish your blog post for you.

The email address for sending your contributions (or any questions) is ales.pekarek@kb.nl

• To get your unique LIBER Blogger account, which grants almost unlimited freedom in your publishing work

To get your individual LIBER Blogger account, please fill in the application form

(http://libereurope.eu/webform/request-for-a-liber-blogger-account)

LIBER RANKINGS STUDY

Marc Martinez, University of LyonJoint Working Group on Quality Assessment and Benchmarking

Steering Committee on Organisation and Human Resources

LIBER STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2015

Reports from the Breakout Sessions

Hans Geleijnse Leo Voogt

LIBER Strategy 2013-2015Report back from break-out

groups

Ann Matheson, Marieke Willems, Susan Reilly, Astrid Verheusen,Leo Voogt, Hans Geleijnse

LI

Key Performance Areas

• Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures

• Reshaping the Research Library• Advocacy and Commuincation

Discussion in 6 groups

75 participants

General Comments• People enjoyed engagement and would like to discuss progress

next years• Positive comments on the general direction LIBER is going• Make a clear distinction between strategy, operational plan and

organisational change• Current economic situation requires more library cooperation and

enforces the need to make choices• There are too many goals. Prioritize!

Other General Comments

• This Strategic Plan often confuses strategies of its members and LIBER itself as a foundation

• Clarify how goals will be realized (SMART) and that resources are/can be made available

• EC projects: focus on projects that are supporting the strategic plan and not vice versa !

• Role of national libraries (and state libraries) not clear enough

Other General Comments (II)

• Plan is unbalanced. Not enough attention for role of library in education (e.g. Information literacy)

• Heritage collections and Special collections not clearly present in the 3 Action areas

• Existing groups could have been involved in drafting the strategy

• Organisational change of Steering committees is questioned

Other General Comments (III)

• Aligning the strategy of LIBER with (partner) organisations around us (eg. SPARC, CERL, Eblida)

• Balance needed between goals, voluntary effort of members and available resources in LIBER office

• See that existing groups (eg. Architecture Group, Manuscript group) are embedded in the new structure

• Articulate where LIBER stands for and present various choices as a logical consequence of it (e.g. Why newTEL, Europeana, COAR?)

Scholarly communication and Reseach Infrastructures

• Focus on research infrastructures = good• Why building new research infrastructures? Clarify this

and evaluate results of previous projects • Data management issues also relevant at national and

local level• Importance of metadata is missing• Single focus on Gold Open Access is questioned.

Scholarly Communication (II)

• Advocate massive digitisation• Heritage collections could be seen as a research tool

and hence as a part of the research infrastructure

Reshaping the Research Library• This KPA is too much a potpourri• Leadership Seminar should be priority• Data management central skill to support KPA 1• Connect with library schools• Multirank study could be used as benchmarking tool

Advocacy and Communication

• Goals are unbalanced. Prioritize!• Advocacy needed on use of mobile technology• Translation into 20 languages questioned• Can LIBER support 25 LIBER ambassadors ?

Resources? • LIBER should promote that directors stimulate their staff

to participate in LIBER’s group work• Strategic plan requires a Communication plan

INVITATION

to theLIBER 42nd Annual Conference, Munich 2013

hosted by theBayerische Staatsbibliothek

www.liber2013.de

VOTE OF THANKSto the

UNIVERSITY OF TARTU LIBRARY

Local Organising Committee

Kristina Pai, Director of Collection DevelopmentOlga Einasto, Head of Circulation DepartmentKatriin Kaljovee, Administrative OfficerAvo Kartul, Head of Music DepartmentKersti Kuusemäe, secretaryLiisi Lembinen, Development DirectorMarika Liivamägi, Librarian of Coll. Dev. Dep.

Local Organising Committee

Anneli Sepp, Head of Inform. Systems Dep.Elena Sipria-Mironov, Project Manager of Coll. Dev. Dep.Ilona Smuškina, Marketing ManagerPiret Zettur, Senior Specialist of Inf. SystemsTiiu Tarkpea, Head of Subject Analysis Dep.Kertu Uri, Head of Collections Devel. Dep.Eve Valper, Designer

Volunteers from the Library

Kadi KassSigne BachmannMaarika TomingasAlice ZetturTiina SammelselgJelena Ivanova

Triin JaagusAnnika MarksonJaana SeinbergMerje PunderMaiu NurkaLiisa Pall