LIBER 2021 Online: Full Schedule

This year, the LIBER 2021 Conference is a special one indeed. That’s because our organisation is celebrating our 50th anniversary and this year also marks the 50th conference that we’ve run. Over the years our conference has served as a vibrant hub for research libraries from all over Europe. Hence, this is a milestone to be celebrated and we are very excited to welcome you at our upcoming (virtual) conference!
The conference will be digitally co-hosted by our colleagues at the University of Belgrade Library in Serbia. As such, we aim to recreate and showcase our vibrant community that is the LIBER Network, while at the same time hosting our conference online and ensuring the safety of all conference participants.

Make sure you visit our virtual professional exhibition & networking space here: lbve.rs. You can also visit our virtual poster exhibition here and make sure to cast your vote for your favourite poster by filling in this form.

Feel free to browse through our digital programme and start building your customised schedule. If you haven’t registered for our conference please make sure that you do so here.

09:30 CEST

Digital Libraries: The Next Frontier

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The classical model of the library was both an archive and a temple. The library was a defense against decay and destruction, an institution that preserved not only a system of values but also certain rituals of using knowledge: the book as a physical object and, consequently, a model of text that is final and unchangeable. But electronic textuality has changed all that. We are not in Kansas anymore, and some rather pesky people among us -- generally referred to as digital humanists -- have developed a craving for digital collections in which a text or an image is not only an object but a service; not a static entity but an interactive method. Can libraries keep up with the instability and fluidity of infinitely enrichable digital objects? And should they?

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Speakers

Toma Tasovac

Director, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, DARIAH-EU

Toma Tasovac is Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH) and Director of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU). With an academic background in Comparative Literature and degrees from Harvard, Princeton and Trinity... Read More →

Moderators

Julien Roche

President, LIBER - European Ligue of Research Libraries

Julien Roche served as Director of the libraries of the University of Lille – Sciences and Technologies from 2005 to 2018, where he led a strategic project for the university: the creation of the LILLIAD Innovation Learning Center, to support the innovation process of the university... Read More →

Wednesday June 23, 2021 09:30 - 10:30 CEST
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Keynote Speaker

09:00 CEST

Open knowledge?... darling, we need to talk (again)!

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This keynote will review the broader perspective of Open Knowledge compared with different perspectives including Open Science. Prof. Eva Méndez will discuss the legitimacy of Openness in scientific communication and valorisation, after COVID-19. She will also review the challenges and the expected contribution of libraries in the creation of Open Knowledge institutions, on the move beyond Open Science to co-create a research system based on shared knowledge by 2030.

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Speakers

Eva Méndez

Researcher, uc3m

Eva Méndez holds a PhD in Library and Information Sciences (LIS) and she is an expert in metadata.Based on her Twitter profile she is an ‘open knowledge militant’ (@evamen). She has been a lecturer at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) since 1997. Dr Méndez has been an... Read More →

Moderators

Agnès Ponsati Obiols

Unit Information Resources for Research-Director, CSIC

Agnès Ponsati has a degree in Hispanic Philology (University of Barcelona, 1986), a Diploma in Librarianship and Documentation from the same university (1987) and is head of the CSIC Unit of Information Resources for Research.Previously she worked as Digital Library and Information... Read More →

Thursday June 24, 2021 09:00 - 10:00 CEST