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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s LIBER Award for Library Innovation, sponsored by OCLC. This award is given to the three abstracts which best describe innovative work within the overall theme of the Annual Conference, based on criteria such as the level of innovation, the impact on the wider library community, originality and the quality […]
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the LIBER Annual Conference. While we would have very much preferred to welcome you to Belgrade, Serbia in person, we have had to move the LIBER Conference online for the second year running as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, we’re very pleased to say that with […]
LIBER–OCLC Innovation Awards 2020 WINNER – Arjan Schalken The annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation was instituted by LIBER with the support of OCLC. Every year we recognise the three abstracts which best describe innovative work within the overall theme of each specific LIBER Annual Conference. The award was originally intended to support the physical participation of […]
The annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation was instituted by LIBER with the support of OCLC. Every year we recognise the three abstracts which best describe innovative work within the overall theme of each specific LIBER Annual Conference. The award was originally intended to support the physical participation of awardees, enabling them to travel to the LIBER Conference. […]
Looking Back 2020 was undoubtedly a rocky year and a year of firsts for many organisations. It was also the first year that the LIBER Annual Conference, usually a vibrant hub for our network, had to be shifted online. While our 2020 online conference was a great success, it still lacked our annual partnership with […]
The annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation was instituted by LIBER with the support of OCLC. Every year we recognise the three abstracts which best describe innovative work within the overall theme of each specific LIBER Annual Conference. The award was originally intended to support the physical participation of awardees, enabling them to travel to […]