LIGUE DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES EUROPÉENNES DE RECHERCHE LIBER 36th Annual General Conference 2007 European Integration: Conditions and Challenges for Libraries National Library Warsaw University Library Warsaw 3-7 July 2007 Programme Speakers Participants Warsaw 2007 LIGUE DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES EUROPÉENNES DE RECHERCHE LIBER Main Sponsors LIBER Sponsors LIBER Conference Partners III_korekta 6/21/07 9:18 AM Page 1 Contents Welcome from the President of LIBER ................................................................................. 3 Welcome from the Directors of the National Library and the Warsaw University Library .. 5 LIBER Executive Board......................................................................................................... 6 Conference Programe.............................................................................................................9 Library visits .......................................................................................................................... 16 Excursions .............................................................................................................................. 20 Speakers’ profiles and abstracts 3 July................................................................................................................................. 22 4 July................................................................................................................................. 27 5 July................................................................................................................................. 34 6 July................................................................................................................................. 42 List of Participants by countries and institutions................................................................... 45 List of Participants in alphabetical order............................................................................... 52 List of Sponsors ..................................................................................................................... 62 Notes ...................................................................................................................................... 73 LIBER Annual Conference – Warsaw 2007 III_korekta 6/21/07 9:18 AM Page 3 Welcome from the President of LIBER As President of LIBER I am pleased to welcome you, colleagues from all over Europe, to the 36th Annual General Conference in War- saw. I also warmly welcome guests from other organisations, partners and sponsors, who support the work of LIBER. The Conference is organized by the National Library of Poland and Warsaw University Library and its theme is ‘European Integration: Conditions and Challenges for Libraries’. In the past, the orientation of LIBER was mostly towards research libraries in Western Europe. The changes in Europe, however, are gradually also being reflected in our organisation and in our activities. With a stronger participation from libraries in Central and Eastern Europe, the organisation will obtain a more central position in the European information landscape, and will be able to support member libraries in a better way. Participation by libraries in Central and Eastern Europe has already been stimulated by a special fund created with the support of OCLC PICA. Polish libraries have played and can play an important role in this process. The central position of Poland in Europe has encouraged many relations with libraries and organisations in other Euro- pean countries. This has been so already for ages. Many valuable books and manuscripts in Polish libraries are, as Joanna Pasztaleniec-Jarzyƒska has stressed, ‘an enduring legacy of the strong links between Poland’s cultural heritage and the cultural traditions of other European countries’. The strength of modern research libraries is that they combine their responsibility for the heritage collections with a pro-active role in serving users’ needs in the digital environment. These roles and priorities are being reflected very well in the activities of LIBER. At this Annual General Conference we will discuss key issues of today’s librarianship, such as recent developments in preservation, succession planning, electronic collection development and conservation, and new business models for open access publishing. Our priorities are also covered by the various workshops and seminars LIBER has organised in co-operation with partners throughout this year. • ‘Measuring Quality in Libraries’, a seminar organised in Paris (March); • The CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, the Open Archives Ini- tiative 5, in Geneva (April); • Think Tank on the future value of the book as artefact and the future value of digital docu- mentary heritage in Stockholm (May); • A Digitisation workshop in Copenhagen (October). We hope and expect that these initiatives will stimulate co-operation in Europe and the deve- lopment of new joint initiatives. In this respect we would also like to establish a closer relation- ship with the national library organisations. The Pre-Conference will be dedicated to this issue because we can learn from one another’s experiences. By joining forces in common goals we will be able to serve the interests of research libraries and our researchers and students in a better and more efficient way. Our Main Sponsors – OCLC PICA, ProQuest Information and Learning, Ex Libris, and Preservation Technologies – and our sponsors – Euromonitor International, Belser Wis- LIBER Annual Conference – Warsaw 2007 3 III_korekta 6/21/07 9:18 AM Page 4 sentschaftlicher Dienst, and Jouve – are major contributors to the success of our Conferences and other activities. I should also like to thank this year’s Conference Partner, Coutts Information Ser- vices, for their interest in our organization and their support. Finally I would like to thank our hosts, the energetic and dedicated director of Warsaw Univer- sity Library, Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko, and the newly appointed General Director of the Natio- nal Library, Dr Tomasz Makowski, who recently took over from Micha∏ Jagie∏∏o. I would like to thank Mr Jagie∏∏o for his work and support for this event. I should also like to thank the staff of these two great libraries for their work in the preparation of this Conference. I wish all participants a useful, inspiring and enjoyable conference. Hans Geleijnse a 4 LIBER Annual Conference – Warsaw 2007 III_korekta 6/21/07 9:18 AM Page 5 Welcome from Warsaw University Library and the National Library of Poland It is an honour, as well as a pleasure, for us to welcome all the participants of the 36th Annual General LIBER Con- ference 2007 to the two biggest libraries in Warsaw: The National Library of Poland and Warsaw Universi- ty Library. Our libraries have much in common: they store the coun- try’s published heritage from the beginnings of Poland’s nationhood; they document the history of Polish science, culture and literature; they offer access to contemporary Polish and world scientific literature; and together, in solidarity, they share the duty of providing library and information services to aca- demic, research and cultural circles of both City and Country. At the same time, our libraries are different: in the same way as national and university libraries differ all over the world, so also do ours in terms of buildings, organization of our collections and scope of information offered, and our style of working with readers. We are proud to present to you our two libraries with their enduring similarities and differences. The choice of topic for the conference: European Integration: Conditions and Challenges for Libraries is not accidental. For the first time since the extension of the EU boundaries, the annu- al conference is being held in a country that is a new member of the European Union. Librarians in our part of Europe have spent the last decade raising the standards of work in research libraries to the standards accepted in the EU, and on reducing the technological gap which ten years ago seemed boundless. We are pleased to note that the effects of all their work are now visible every day – especially to library users, who enjoy easier and faster access to worldwide sources of infor- mation. We hope that you, who are professionally involved with processing and making informa- tion available, will also observe and appreciate those changes. We would like to thank our Sponsors for their help. It is thanks to you that this Conference has achieved its present status, and we gratefully note that increasingly, in everyday work, you are becoming our essential partners. We also thank our colleagues in both our libraries whose contri- bution of effort and time in organizing this Conference has been enormous. We cordially wish that this Conference will remain permanently in the memories of all parti- cipants as an educational and stimulating experience in every sense: professional, social and sight-seeing. Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko Dr Tomasz Makowski Warsaw University Librarya The National Library of Poland LIBER Annual Conference – Warsaw 2007 5 III_korekta 6/21/07 9:18 AM Page 6 LIBER Executive Board Past President Mr Erland Kolding Nielsen Director General The Royal Library PO Box 2149 1016 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel: + 45 33 47 4301; Fax: +45 33 32 98 46 Email: [email protected] President Mr Hans Geleijnse Director of Library and IT Services Tilburg University Warandelaan 2, PO Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Tel: