Report of the 26th EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting & EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference
The 2018 EBLIDA NAPLE Annual Council and Conference was held in Strasbourg (France) on 30 and 31 May 2018.
The conference theme Libraries bridging borders attracted a great number of participants with almost 100 people attending the event.
The programme kicked off with a real prospective view from the keynote speaker Prof. Chris Welch (ISU)
Followed by an active panel discussion with Kathrin Merkle (CoE), Jukka Relander (Outgoing EBLIDA President) and Tine Vind (NAPLE Chair).
The second session provided practical insight into the role of librarians in a cross border environment, and the last session offered a good variety of workshops to choose from.
The third part of the conference was split into 3 different workshops where participants were actively engaged in sharing ideas, best practices and experiences.
The workshops namely addressed:
- Regional collaboration driving global visibility to a worldwide audience (OCLC)
- Copyright literacy in a cross-border environment, a workshop to improve copyright literacy in European libraries. For this one, read the report from Jane Secker here.
- The Multicultural Library, a model for Europe, an Erasmus + strategic partnership workshop to exchange practices and ideas.
To conclude, the incoming EBLIDA President Ton van Vlimmeren thanked all the participants for an excellent conference and announced the 2 candidates for next year conference: Ireland and Croatia.
Presentations:
Regional collaboration and global visibility to a global audience
Dr. Axel Kaschte
Director, Strategy, EMEA, OCLC
Une nouvelle dimension transfrontalière pour la réseau Pass‘relle
Camille Gangloff
Councillor, Strasbourg Eurométropole
Eucor – The European Campus: European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC)
Janosch Nieden
Director of the EGTC "Eucor - The European Campus"
Mulhouse (France) / Baden-Württemberg Relations
- the cross-border mobile library
- "tandem" exchanges
Catherine Storne
Director, Mulhouse Public Library
Copyright Literacy in a Cross-Border Environment: a workshop to build Copyright Literacy in European libraries
Chris Morrison
University of Kent, @UKCopyrightLit
and
Jane Secker
City, University of London, @UKCopyrightLit
Photos
Video Recordings:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Drawings
The event was recorded through graphics by Mrs. Coline Robin who gave her views and captured the essence of the discussion.
[CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Opening and Welcome
Beyond Borders: a prospective view
Working Across Borders: Practitioners point of view
Your turn to practice: Workshops
Wrap up of the Workshop & Closing Session
NEWS
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 >-
Job opportunity at EBLIDA
12 July 2018: EBLIDA invites applications for the position of Director, at EBLIDA Office in The Hague, Netherlands. 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 >-
EBLIDA Newsletter June 2018
14 June 2018: President’s Editorial; Copyright reform – final countdown; #SaveYourInternet; EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference Report.... and more. Read more > 
Save Your Internet
12 June 2018: With Article 13 the internet culture that has emerged in recent years – a culture that enables connections and democratises information – will become bureaucratic and restrictive. Read more >