1. EBLIDA Association of Hungarian Libraries, 3 Avril 2019
Giuseppe Vitiello, Director EBLIDA

2. History with «IFs»

3. History with «IFs»

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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).

10. 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.

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

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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...

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. UN Sustainable Development Goals

20. 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

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

22. EBLIDA Association of Hungarian Libraries, 3 Avril 2019
Giuseppe Vitiello, Director EBLIDA