LIBER is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Library Innovation Award, sponsored by OCLC. The Innovation Award recognises the three abstracts submitted to the LIBER Annual Conference which best describe innovative work within the overall theme of the event; ‘Engage, collaborate, innovate: libraries working to address global challenges’. The awardees were announced during the Awards Session at the 54th LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Award criteria
The criteria (in order of importance) for the Award are:
- Level of innovation
- Impact on the wider library community (especially the European library community)
- Originality
- Quality of the abstract
The three abstracts which best fulfill these criteria are selected by the Conference Programme Committee (CPC). The Award comprises the opportunity to present the winning abstract at the 2025 LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne, free Conference registration, and travel expenses and accommodation. The Award is funded by OCLC as part of the valued, multi-year collaboration between OCLC and LIBER.
Innovation Award Winners 2025
The Conference Programme Committee for the 54th LIBER Annual Conference presents the 2025 Innovation Award to:
The Value of Informal Professional Networks for Developing Leaders: A Case Study from the LIBER Emerging Leaders Programme
William Nixon, RLUK, United Kingdom
Read the full abstract (Presentation 2.1)
Artificial Intelligence, Real Library: Insights from Project Laibro for Organizational Development
Leticia Antunes Nogueira and Sigurd Eriksson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Read the full abstract (Presentation 6.2)
Converge or Die: The LAM Perspective Unlocks the Societal Impact of Collections as Data
Saskia Scheltjens and Coen Wilders, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
Read the full abstract (Presentation 13.3)
In the photo – from left to right: Leticia Antunes Nogueira, William Nixon, Eric van Lubeek (OCLC), Saskia Scheltjens, Coen Wilders, and Giannis Tsakonas (Chair of the LIBER CPC).