Reshaping the Research Library Steering Committee
Leadership and Workforce Development WG
Emerging Leaders, Cohort 4
Preceding the 2017 LIBER Conference in Patras, Greece, the 4th cohort of the Emerging Leaders Programme completed the first phase of its programme. The seminar took place in the University of Patras Library under the guidance of Roger Fielding (Roger Fielding Consulting), Janette Watson (University of Manchester) and Kira Stine Hansen (University of Copenhagen). Course Director, Jan Wilkinson (University of Manchester), was unable to attend this year. Sincere thanks are due to Giannis Tsakonas and his team for their excellent and friendly support at the University of Patras Library.
There were 26 participants from 13 different countries. An initial review of the evaluation of the first phase shows that on a scale of 1 (poor) – 5 (excellent), 88% of answers across all 17 questions scored 4 or 5. Participants now look forward to a week’s placement in a LIBER Library in a country other than their own before reassembling at the Lille Conference in 2018 to complete the programme.
LIBER Journees
As reported in a previous mailing, the second LIBER Journées event for Library Directors was successfully completed at Sciences Po in Paris in May 2017. Since then films of the event have been completed and one can be seen on the LIBER webpages at: In another medium, Andreas Brandtner, LIBER Journées Programme Coordinator, has drafted an article on the second LIBER Journées. The article will be published in ABI Technik ( 2017 / 3.
Digital Collection WG
From the 15th to the 17th of August 2017 the IFLA satellite meeting “Digital Humanities – Opportunities and Risks. Connecting Libraries and Research” took place in Berlin very successfully.
About 100 participants round the globe discussed very fruitfully the different topics of digital humanities like the cooperation between libraries, archives, museums and researchers, service portfolios, organizational questions, skills and various projects.
The conference has been hosted by IFLA – represented by the IFLA Standing Committee “Academic and Research Libraries - LIBER, DARIAH and DINI in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and the library of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
The slides of all talks are published on the site of the IFLA Standing Committee “Academic and Research Libraries:
The manuscripts will be published soon in an open access collection by the French Repository “Hyper Articles en Ligne” (HAL):
As one of the most important result of the satellite meeting the attendees are convinced, that principles of a common strategy should be established to improve the cooperation between digital scholars and cultural heritage institutions in concern of digital humanities’ projects. To survey the mission statement of the DARIAH Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter is a very welcome starting point:
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