With the Internet and online-bookstores, do we need e-books in libraries?
Yes. Libraries are rapidly changing focus and purpose as the digital age develops. To accommodate European library users is important today and tomorrow. It is essential to improve libraries by developing resources that include e-books so that they don’t become museums of books.
Libraries serve the whole population without any distinction and guarantee free access to information.
NEWS
EBLIDA Newsletter September 2018
13 September 2018: Read the current Newsletter with the range of activities and interests, library & information society news from Europe, Brussels, EBLIDA and beyond. Read more >
Digital Single Market Directive - the European Parliament lays a Curate’s Egg
13 September 2018: PRESS RELEASE: Yesterday, after two years deliberation, the European Parliament voted on its amendments to the draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Read more >-
Job opportunity at EBLIDA
12 July 2018: EBLIDA invites applications for the position of Director, at EBLIDA Office in The Hague, Netherlands. Read more > -
EBLIDA Newsletter July-August 2018
12 July 2018: This double issue of the newsletter covers the months of July and August. Enjoy reading! Read more > 
Shambolic JURI Committee vote on Copyright
22 June 2018: As a major advocate of the library and information sector, while EBLIDA welcomes the encouraging outcomes on some of the Articles, the overall result of the JURI’s deliberations is actually rather lacklustre and in places rather negative for libraries, education and research. Read more >