Country Consortium Survey 2018
Having access to up to date information about your consortium, and your members, is vital to our work in many ways. It supports our fund-raising and advocacy initiatives, provides valuable data for our annual report and website, and informs our work in licensing e-resources. This information will be shared with the EIFL Management Board and will be available to all of you in the coordinators’ space in the Members-only section of our website.
Help us to help you! Please complete this short survey by 6 April 2018.
- Your name Viatcheslav Britchkovski
- Your country Belarus
- Name of your consortium/association BelCoLib
a)Consortium/association chairperson’s name Roman Motulski
b)Consortium/association chairperson‘s email
c)Cosortium/association website URL
d)Your Consortium/association Facebook/Twitter or any other social network account URL
- Total number of members: 61
Number of libraries / Number of member institutions active in licensing e-resources(please note: department libraries belonging to the same institution should notbe counted separately)
University libraries / 39 / 23
College and polytechnic libraries / - / -
Research libraries (e.g. Academy of Sciences, research institute libraries) / 8 / 5
Public libraries / 7 / 6
National libraries / 1 / 1
School libraries / 2 / 1
Special libraries (not already included in other categories) / 4 / 3
- Please attach a complete list of members: (you can upload files with extension: txt, rtf, odf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx. Max size 2MB). Please also include the number of full time equivalent (FTE) - students and researches for academic and research institutions and total number of registered members/users for public, National and other libraries.
- Please attach a list of institutions active in licensing e-resources (if different from the complete list). Please do not overstate the number, or include department libraries separately, as publishers may look at this list when calculating consortium-wide subscription fees.
- How many people are benefiting from your consortium/association services through all of its member libraries as grouped below?
Member libraries / Number of people
Academic and research institutions (Universities, colleges, polytechnics, academy of science and research institutes)
Please provide here with FTE (total number of enrolled students, faculty and researchers of the entire institution, not just library users) / 220 838
Public/National/other libraries
Please provide here with Total number of registered members/users / 136 650
- In 2017, how many people attended general training or other information sessions organized by your consortium/association in your country in the following areas:
Topic / Librarians / End users (researches, students, administrators, policy makers, and others)
Licensing / 203 / 262
Open Access / 79 / 157
IP: Copyright and libraries / 115 / 42
- How many consortium/association meetings were held in 2017?
●1 meeting of the Consortium and 7 meetings of the working groups of the Consortium
- Overall, how would you assess the financial status and sustainability of your consortium/association’s ?
- Poor: the finances are unstable or are decreasing
- For 2018, where applicable, please provide an overview of ANY consortium/association activities planned in the following areas (please note we are asking for ANY activities of your organization and NOT only work related to EIFL):
Consortium: 2 meetingsand 6 meetings of the working groups of the Consortium
●Licensing: 14 seminars for promoting electronic information resources
●Open Access: 2 seminars On the role of the OA initiative in digital transformation of scholarly communication. Celebrating OA week 2018
●IP: Copyright and libraries: 1 seminar on Copyright: Legislative norms and practical application in the Republic of Belarus
●Public libraries: 8 seminars on promoting electronic information resources
- Any additional comments or questions?