Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
LIBER - Association of European Research Libraries |
| Acronym: |
LIBER
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| Legal status: |
Foundation
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| Website address: |
http://www.libereurope.eu
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Paul Ayris
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| Position: |
President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Izaskun Lacunza
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
5 Prins Willem-Alexanderhof
P.O. box: 90407
The Hague 2509 LK
NETHERLANDS
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| Telephone number: |
(+31) 629047952 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
LIBER is the principal organisation representing research libraries in Europe. Its current membership includes 420 national and university libraries in more than 40 countries.
LIBER’s mission is to represent the interests of research libraries of Europe, their universities and researchers. LIBER promotes in particular:
- efficient information services
- access to research information, in any form whatsoever
- innovation in end-user services from research libraries in support of teaching, learning and research
- preservation of cultural heritage
- efficient and effective management in research libraries
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
3
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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- research and national libraries
- research and education
- copyright
- digitisation
- information literacy
- (Open) access to research information
- innovation in end-user services from research libraries in support of teaching, learning and research
- preservation of cultural heritage
- efficient and effective management in research libraries
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Culture
- Education
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Research and Technology
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
0 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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LIBER itself has 425 members, i.e. research, university and national libraries. For an overview of our 420 members see http://www.libereurope.eu/userlist
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
-
12/2011
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Total budget:
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290,000
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€
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of which public financing:
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55,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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55,000
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
235,000
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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135,000
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€
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- activities and sponsorship :
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100,000
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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