Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine LIBER’s portfolio of EU projects, to analyse how/if these projects help deliver LIBER’s strategy, and to establish criteria for assessing the success of LIBER projects through the new LIBER project scorecard. The paper is a written version of the talk which the author gave at the 40th LIBER Annual Conference in Barcelona in 2011, a digital recording of which is also available.
Highlights
Efficient information services Access to research information, in any form whatsoever Innovation in end-user services provided by research libraries in support of teaching, learning and research Preservation of cultural heritage Efficient and effective management in research libraries
Marking each individual project against a set of criteria, which LIBER as a membership organisation has developed, is another. This is the background to the LIBER Project Scorecard which LIBER uses as a strategic tool to measure the success of its project work
Europeana Libraries is a good example here, where there are 19 libraries contributing as content partners.[28]. Impact is another Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in the LIBER Project Scorecard
Summary
Each area of LIBER’s Strategy is overseen by a LIBER Steering Committee. The committee structure has been notably effective in a number of areas. The 2011 Workshop took place in the University of Geneva on 22–24 June and attracted 267 registered delegates, mostly from Europe, but with attenders from the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. The number of delegates attending the Workshop in 2011 is a record for the OAI Workshops and the meeting has become THE Open Access event in Europe in the year in which it is held.[4] The Programme[5] contained a mixture of technical papers, papers on Open Science, new tool development, advocacy and repository development. The LIBER Digitisation and Resource Discovery Steering Committee works with EBLIDA to hold Workshops on European digitisation activity. The 3rd such Workshop is taking place in The Hague on 5–7 October 2011.6 The 2nd Workshop in 2009 has been extensively summarised in LIBER Quarterly.[7]
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