EGIL - Expert Group on Information Law

Aims and goals

The mission of the Expert Group on Information Law (EGIL) is to:

• Create awareness on legal issues (with related implications) that affect the provision and circulation of information when libraries and archives are concerned;
• Advise and assist the EBLIDA EC, national library associations and EBLIDA Members in addressing European institutions by making suggestions and drafting reports regarding laws and changes to laws or policies that would improve the legal position of libraries and archives;
• Cooperate and work with other organizations and institutions for these purposes.

 

Since EGIL activities impact on library policy and planning, EGIL will meet ELSIA and LIBLEG experts regularly in order to bring in-field experience to the work undertaken by the two other groups and, vice versa, to get direction on issues which may have an impact on library legislation, policy and other information laws. The three groups should routinely make their minutes and any relevant papers available to each other so they are aware of decisions taken and of further action to be made.

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Members of EGIL

Chair: Valérie Buoissou, France

.	Director, Bibliohèque Municipale Nîmes Email: valerie.bouissou at ville-nimes.fr

Members:

	Bulgaria Spaska Tarandova Executive Director · Global Libraries - Bulgaria Foundation Email: spaska.tarandova at gmail.com
	Denmark Andrew Cranfield Library Director, Municipality of Toender, Southern Denmark Email: joahcr at toender.dk
	Germany Armin Talke Legal Counsel, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) Email: armin.talke at sbb.spk-berlin.de
	Greece Maria Botti Attorney-at-law / Professor, School of Information Science and Informatics, DALMS, Ionian University Email: botti at otenet.gr
	Latvia Jurģis Īvāns Copyright expert, National Library of Latvia Email: jurgisivans at gmail.com
	Norway Olaus Bergstrøm Legal advisor at the National Library of Norway Email: olaus.bergstrom at nb.no
	Romania Olimpia Bratu "Christian Tell" County Library Targu-Jiu, Gorj County Email: olimpiabratu at yahoo.com
	Spain Ciro Llueca Director,  Library and Learning Resources, Open University of Catalonia Email: cllueca at uoc.edu

 

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Documents:

Statements made by EBLIDA at WIPO

Memo on Data Protection Regulation
By Jerker Rydén, Lawyer at the National Library of Sweden

The right to e‐read - An e‐book policy for libraries in Europe
CS | ES | FR | HR | HU | IT | ME | PT | SK

European Libraries and the challenges of e-publishing - An e-book policy for libraries in Europe
BG |  CS | DE | EL | ES | ET | FI | FR | HR | IT | ME | NL | PT | SR | SV

EBLIDA Key Principles on the acquisition of and access to E-books by libraries
DE | EL | ES | IT | SV | NL | PT | UK

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