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EIFL 2011 annual report
Our 2011 annual report shares our many achievements realized through close collaboration with our partner countries.
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director’s report 2011 was another very productive and rewarding year. Working in close collaboration with our network of over 60 partner and project countries, we made excellent progress in extending access to knowledge. I would like to share some of the highlights. |
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building strong library consortia Over the last 12 years, library consortia in over 45 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe (representing more than 2,300 libraries) have joined the EIFL network - most recently consortia from Maldives and Uganda. In 2011, three EIFL partner consortia celebrated ten years of achievements: Lithuania, Moldova and Serbia. |
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expanding access to e-resources Over 65 commercial e-resources from more than 30 vendors are now available to libraries in EIFL partner countries - in many cases free of charge - as a result of our negotiations. In 2011, our negotiations resulted in savings for our library partners of an estimated US$175 million and an average discount of 97 per cent. |
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removing barriers to knowledge sharing The EIFL-OA programme won the prestigious 2011 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The award was in recognition of the programme's highly effective awareness-raising, advocacy and capacity building activities over the last three years, and its success in developing a large number of OA repositories and OA journals in EIFL partner countries. |
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promoting fair copyright laws Our major achivement in 2011 - the culmination of seven years advocacy - is that we presented, together with IFLA, a proposal for an international treaty in favour of libraries and archives at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). |
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improving ICT infrastructure in libraries In 2011, we launched seven new pilot projects to explore FOSS (free and open source software) solutions for libraries. Over 380 people from 62 countries attended our monthly webinars, each focusing on a particular FOSS tool. |
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helping public libraries to change lives From rural farming communities to urban areas, public libraries are improving lives in their communities through the EIFL-PLIP Programme. |
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Our 2011 General Assembly was hosted by the National Library of Belarus, and was attended by 64 participants from 46 countries and 15 publisher partners. |
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