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EIFL update
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The EIFL 2011 General Assembly (GA) was hosted by the National Library of Belarus, 26–28 June 2011, and attended by 64 participants from 46 countries, and 15 publisher partners. Coordinators from EIFL partner countries and invited guests came together to discuss EIFL activities and to debate topical issues. |
EIFL-Licensing update
EIFL-OA update
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On May 30, 2011, EIFL-OA hosted an online workshop Open access advocacy: How to run successful national and institutional campaigns with the guest speakers from Denmark, Germany and South Africa. |
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UNESCO, IFLA and EIFL held an Interactive Facilitation Meeting on Open Access in Geneva, Switzerland on May 19th, as part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011. |
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The EIFL Open Access (OA) programme has been chosen as the winner of the 2011 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications for its awareness raising, advocacy and capacity building activities over the last three years, and for its success in developing a large number of repositories and open access journals in EIFL partner countries. |
EIFL-IP update
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Kathy Matsika, EIFL-IP librarian from Zimbabwe presented library copyright issues at a plenary session of the African Library Summit 2011. |
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The Belarus library community was one of the most active stakeholders during the amendment process of their new copyright law (approved in April 2011 by the Council of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus). They succeeded in securing provisions that are important for libraries. |
EIFL-FOSS update
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During a three-day training sessions librarians learned about the OpenBiblio FOSS ILS system, designed especially for the automation of small libraries. |
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EPrints provides an easy and fast way to set up repositories of open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. Watch and read presentations about this FOSS tool. |
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The SABER Repository in Mozambique is the first academic institutional repository in the country and has already six higher education institutions inputting content. The full case study is now available. |
EIFL-PLIP update
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EIFL-PLIP grantee, the Public Library Braka Miladinovci in Radovis, Macedonia, has won a prestigious ERSTE Foundation 2011 Award for Social Integration. The library won €15,000 (US$ 21,550) for the Creative Minds Create Job Opportunities project, which motivates unemployed people, especially women, to find employment. |
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On 30 June, the EIFL-PLIP call for concept papers closed. The call was focused on replication of services from projects funded in the first round of PLIP. All public libraries in countries with emerging and developing economies were eligible. We received 100 applications from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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At this year’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Nairobi, Kenya, the findings from the EIFL commissioned research study to explore perceptions of public libraries in 6 African countries will be discussed. |
Events
| 18 Jul 2011 | Workshop on Open Access Institutional Repository Advocacy in Ghana.Location: Accra - Ghana |
| 8 Aug 2011 | IFLA Satellite Conference – Havana, Cuba.Location: Havana - Cuba |
| 13 Aug 2011 | 77th IFLA World Library and Information Congress.Location: San Juan - Puerto Rico |
