28th EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting

28 October - 28 October 2020

Online event

The EBLIDA 2020 Annual Council Meeting has moved from Belgrade, Serbia to online.

The Executive Committee decided to move the 28^th Annual Council Meeting & Conference to a virtual format. At the heart of this decision is the health and safety of our members and staff.

The Annual Council and it’s associated Conference – now in a Worshop format -  was held virtually from 13-28 October 2020 as follows:

Annual Council Meeting

(For EBLIDA members only)

28 October 2020

14:30 – 17:30 (CET)

EBLIDA Workshops

13, 14 and 16 October 2020

14:30 - 16:45 (CET)

 

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(The original theme, date and venue of the Conference, as planned before the COVID-19 outbrake):

The title of the 28th EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting & EBLIDA Conference is "Libraries Working for a better World: Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Europe".

The 28^th EBLIDA Conference represents a unique opportunity for librarians willing to embark upon Sustainable Development Goals initiatives which are vibrant and may change the world.

Sustainable Development is not taking place aside or ahead of libraries; it is happening inside of them, and now. UN SDGs are bursting into library activities and providing new, fascinating developments to conventional and innovative library work. The proposal of a European Green Deal made by Ms Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, aims to make the 28 countries in the European Union “climate neutral” by 2050. All European Commission programmes are being modulated in order to attain the seventeen SDG objectives and new funding opportunities will be created. Are librarians prepared for that?

EBLIDA has taken a Europe-oriented, indicator-based and grass-roots approach to UN SDGs. We have built the EBLIDA SDG European House with a Situation Room - the EBLIDA Matrix listing European SDG programmes – and a Fake News-free Room – our partnership with NewsGuard in order to attain SDG 16, Subtarget 10: “Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements”. Through the EBLIDA ELSA (European Libraries and Sustainability Assessment) Working Group we are also working on SDG indicators. EBLIDA’s fully-fledged concept on SDGs implies services, tools and training for the EBLIDA community.

The 28^th Annual Conference will be the first occasion to present the EBLIDA SDG approach to a wider audience. At the end of the Conference, each participant will know how to set up, evaluate and report about an SDG project, and how to use EBLIDA services. We wish to share our working methods and enabling tools with you.

In the morning session, Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President, and Barbara Lison, IFLA President-elect, will present the EBLIDA and the IFLA approaches and will compare them. Inspiring, linked with SDG policies, and evaluable SDG Stories will be presented and evaluated by ELSA Members.

In the afternoon, participants will split into groups and will work on SDG projects using EBLIDA enabling tools. You will be immersed into an administrative culture of sustainability which will empower you to interact with SDG actors external to libraries and to exploit SDG opportunities.

The 28^th EBLIDA Conference comes together with a Premium Workshop on 24^th June – morning – jointly organised by EBLIDA and LIBER (20 seats currently available for the EBLIDA Conference participants). University librarians and public librarians will work together around a common topic: Citizens’ science and Sustainable Development Goals. This workshop is an ideal prolongation and a practical application of the 28^th EBLIDA Conference and is an example of how libraries can implement Sustainable Development activities through Citizens’ Science projects, in particular if related to SDG Targets having an environmental scope (Goals 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15).

Venue

The event was planned to be held at the Belgrade City Library.

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