EBLIDA Association of Hungarian Libraries, 3 Avril 2019 Giuseppe Vitiello, Director EBLIDA g.vitiello@kb.nl

History with «IFs»

History with «IFs»

TULIP Project (1992-1994) Elsevier & American libraries Distribution of e-publications on library platforms Failure due to library attitudes And if...

TULIP Project (1992-1994) And if today Elsevier content were to be: - distributed on library platforms..., - evaluated on library platforms..., - aggregated woth open access material on library platforms..., .... Missed opportunities, today

EBLIDA Strategic Plan (2019-2022) Four Strands: 1) The Political Level 2) The legislative framework 3) Policy-making 4) The socio-educational impact of libraries Until 2022

EBLIDA Strategic Plan : 1° Strand: The Political Level A Library Manifesto for Europe Initiated by PL 2030 with a fully-fledged strategy implying a Before and After Elections IFLA drafted the test of the Manifesto EBLIDA wrote the document comparing national voting systems and structures of library associations.

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 2° Strand: Legislative Framework (2) Is there a need for new public library acts? To what extent are the Council of Europe-EBLIDA Guidelines still viable? What kind of new library legislation is needed?

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making “The first task of administrative theory is to develop a set of concepts that will permit the description […] , of administrative situations. These concepts, to be scientifically useful, must be operational; that is, their meanings must correspond to empirically observable facts or situations.” (Herbert Simon, The administrative behavior, 1947).

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making Library “facts and situations” do not correspond to, and are not easily absorbed into, concepts. Two examples: Libraries and social media, Libraries and collection-oriented performances.

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making Are social media the current post office?

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making 85 million users registered in European public libraries Adam Smith would object: Only 17 per cent of Europeans? Aren’t social information providers the new post office? Couldn’t social media be the new infrastructure of knowledge?

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making A typical small library - a small city: 70,000 euro and three staff. Adam Smith would object: Is the ratio personnel cost – capital effective? What is the added value of having a library? Well-being, happiness are no statistical indicators.

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 3° Strand: Policy-Making New concepts should reflect new library “facts and situations”. Hence the need for qualitative indicators measuring the social impact of libraries in terms of: Social cohesion; Urban planning; Democracy and pluralism.

EBLIDA Strategic Plan: 4° Strand: Socio-educational impact Open access is only for academic libraries? MOOCs, tutorials are still in a pre-competitive market LBY-LHY (Learn by Yourself, the Library will Help You): repositories of educational materials in open access (MOOCs, Tutorials, etc.).; What could be done, and where : In Italy, in the Netherlands, in Hungary...

Required skills and missed opportunities EBLIDA Strategic Plan: Are traditional library skills enouugh or special skills are required? What are today´s missed opportunities?

Required skills and missed opportunities The new Copyright Directive: Article 3 protects research organisations and cultural heritage institutions that carry out text and data mining of works; Article 5 (former 4) encourages cross-border teaching activities; article 6 (former 5) prescribes exceptions for the preservation of cultural heritage; articles 8 and 9 (former 7 and 8) facilitate the use of out-of-commerce works by cultural heritage institutions.

Required skills and missed opportunities The new Copyright Directive: In the analogue world: a commercial network, including publishing and audiovisual companies, and the non-commercial network of libraries guaranteed by public legislation and resources; In the digital world, no grey area where information is provided for free thanks to monopolistic behaviour in advertisement revenues or through misuse of copyright-protected works.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN SDGs (2015) No poverty 11: Sustainable cities and communities 2: Zero hunger 3: Good health and well-being for people 12: Responsible consumption and production 4: Quality education 13: Climate action 14: Life below water 5: Gender equality 15: Life on land 6: Clean water and sanitation 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 7: Affordable and clean energy 8: Decent work and economic growth 17: Partnerships for the goals 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure 10: Reducing inequalities

Skills required to implement the Strategic Plan: Artificial Intelligence Simulating human intelligence Villani Report (2018): making sense of AI Threat or opportunities for libraries?

EBLIDA Association of Hungarian Libraries, 3 Avril 2019 Giuseppe Vitiello, Director EBLIDA g.vitiello@kb.nl