LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) is een netwerk van wetenschappelijke bibliotheken. Ruim 400 instellingen uit 45 landen binnen en buiten Europa maken er deel van uit. Deze internationale belangenbehartigingsorganisatie organiseert jaarlijks een conferentie. Die gaat in 2013 door in Munchen. Het thema is Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries.

Het Programme Committee nodigt iedereen uit om presentaties en posters in te dienen rond één van de onderstaande onderwerpen:

  • Collection development (Digital collections)
  • Digitization
  • Open access
  • Strategies
  • Collaboration and integration (archives and museums, public/private partnership)
  • Data
  • Opening data: policy, licenses, technology
  • Open bibliographic data and Linked Open Data
  • Advances of the Semantic Web
  • New services
  • Digital preservation
  • Case studies, projects, systems in production
  • Business models
  • Consortia aspects
  • eBooks
  • New business models
  • User experience
  • Leadership, policy and strategy
  • Collaboration between libraries and other organizations/players
  • Exemplars in collaborative professional  practice
  • Innovation in academic libraries' management, services and concepts
  • Process management, relation between services and costs (business    models, activity based costing)
  • Libraries organizational structures - limits of flexibility
  • New Technologies
  • Library systems, portals, repositories
  • Agile development versus traditional project management: pros and cons
  • Using API's to create new services
  • Open Access
  • Business models
  • Green road, golden road
  • eBooks
  • Research infrastructures, research data
  • Research data management, strategies and policies on developing      collections of research data that the institution/university/organization produce
  • Role of libraries in the development of research infrastructures
  • Embedding librarianship skills in the research process
  • Transformation of libraries and information providers to become an      integral part of research infrastructures
  • Heritage collections
  • Shared services/Cloud services
  • Strategies
  • Benefits (expertise, costs)

Abstracts van papers en posters kunnen nog tot 31 januari 2013 worden ingediend. Meer informatie over de criteria en de wijze van indienen vindt u op de website van LIBER.