Now Open: LIBER’s Annual Conference Fund Awards Applications

Now Open: LIBER’s Annual Conference Fund Awards Applications

It’s time to announce LIBER’s Annual Conference Fund awards once again. Every year, the Fund gives out a number of bursaries, making it possible for library representatives from specific European countries to attend our annual event.  The eligible countries have been agreed upon at LIBER’s Executive Board meeting last October. Twelve awards will be handed out. The […]

LIBER 2023: Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

LIBER 2023: Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

Call for Papers for LIBER 2023 Annual Conference  — Now Open  Please note that the Call for Papers deadline has been extended to 15 January 2023! The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the 15th of January 2023. Guidance on this as well as conference topics […]

Thank you for attending LIBER 2022 in Odense, Denmark!

Thank you for attending LIBER 2022 in Odense, Denmark!

Last week was a great success for LIBER! Our Annual Conference (first in-person conference in two years!), was a huge hit with 393 delegates from all across Europe.

A big thank you to SDU, our volunteers, sponsors, and the LIBER Office Staff for making this event such a success. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Key stats from #LIBER2022:

All presentations from the LIBER 2022 sessions have been uploaded to our LIBER 2022 Zenodo Community Page. Official photos (by  can be found on Flickr here.

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to Budapest for our next Annual Conference, #LIBER2023! Keep posted on our event page for more information.

Below you’ll find some illustrations of conference sessions by Frits Ahlefeldt (@drawnjournalism). Enjoy!

Winner — LIBER Conference Twitter Competition #2Odense22 

Winner — LIBER Conference Twitter Competition #2Odense22 

Each year, the LIBER Comms Team runs a Twitter competition at the LIBER Annual Conference. The aim of the competition is to celebrate the fact that our community has once again met in person after two years of online LIBER conferences.  Read more about the competition here. Winner  We’re pleased to announce the winner of […]

LIBER Conference Twitter Competition – #2Odense22 

LIBER Conference Twitter Competition – #2Odense22 

Each year, the LIBER Comms Team runs a Twitter competition at the LIBER Annual Conference.  Aims   The aim of the competition is to celebrate the fact that our community will once again meet in person after two years of online LIBER conferences.   We will all be travelling to Denmark from across Europe and we want […]

LIBER 2022: Call for Papers Extended Deadline

LIBER 2022: Call for Papers Extended Deadline

Call for Papers for LIBER 2022 Annual Conference  — Now Open  The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. And the deadline to submit a proposal has been extended! The deadline for submitting a proposal is now  31 January 2022. Guidance on this as well as conference topics are outlined in detail below. For more information about the […]

LIBER-OCLC: Innovation Awards 2021 – Henk van den Hoogen & Timon Oefelein

LIBER-OCLC: Innovation Awards 2021 – Henk van den Hoogen & Timon Oefelein

We are pleased to highlight our very first LIBER-OCLC Innovative Awardees for 2021 — Henk van den Hoogen from the University Library Maastricht and Timon Oefelein from Springer Nature. Background to the Awardee/Institution Maastricht University (UM) is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterised by a small-scale, student-oriented approach. Research at […]

LIBER 2022: Call for Papers

LIBER 2022: Call for Papers

Call for Papers for LIBER 2022 Annual Conference  — Now Open  The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the 14th of January 2022. Guidance on this as well as conference topics are outlined in detail below. For more information about the conference in general, please visit the LIBER 2022 website.  To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is […]

Thank you for attending LIBER 2021 Online!

Thank you for attending LIBER 2021 Online!

Our second online conference is officially over And this year, the LIBER 2021 Conference was a special one indeed. That’s because the organisation celebrated the 50th LIBER Annual Conference anniversary. It also marked the first year that LIBER digitally co-hosted an online conference with the collaboration of the University of Belgrade Library. We managed to […]

53rd LIBER Annual Conference