1. LITHUANIAN RESEARCH LIBRARY CONSORTIUM IN A NUTSHELL Aušra Vaškevičienė Lithuanian Research Library Consortium www.lmba.lt 11-11-2015, Riga

2. Outline Library Cooperation in Lithuania Establishment of the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA) The main activities of the LMBA

3. Lithuanian Librarians Association (LBD) Lithuanian Academic Library Association (LABA) Consortium of Lithuanian Academic Libraries Information Infrastructure for Science and Studies Maintenance and Expansion Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA) Lithuanian County Public Library Association Lithuanian Municipal Public Library Association Lithuanian Colleague Library Association

4. Established – 4 th December 2001 Big debate – who can be members (only academic and reserch libraries, or the National Library and county public libraries also) 23 libraries – founders, currently – 55 members The statement in the Statute: “… 10.3. subscribe to online databases for the members of the Consortium and other libraries; …

5. The office of the LMBA

6. Management of the LMBA The General Stakeholders meeting is the supreme management body The Council – 7 members President Head of administration Number of employees – 7 (1 full time)

7. LMBA paid staff President (only from October 2015) Accountant (from 2002) Head of Consortium administration (from 2004) Database administrator (from 2007) Public procurement specialist (from 2005) Lawyer (only for EU projects, 2009–2015) English language translator (from 2009) IT support for office (from 2009)

8. Income sources Membership fees and allocated contribution –joining fees – 76 €, –annual membership fees – fixed part 171 € (~ 128 € until 2010) + variable part for services Projects’ funds The accession contributions made by the members

9. The main activities of the LMBA Subscription to electronic databases for Consortium members and other libraries (2015: 37 agreements for 47 databases, 7 e-books) Advocacy (OA, IP, etc.) and fundraising (EU funding, Ministries‘ grants, etc.) Knowledge sharing Enhancement of professional competencies of librarians Participation in the EU and other programmes and projects Co-operation with other organizations

10. Communication http://www.lmba.lt Closed member‘s forum 2 annual meetings E-mails to individual libraries or their groups Skype, telephone Visits to individual libraries Reporting activities to members, funders and politicians

11. International cooperation

12. Why it is important to have the consortium? LMBA became strategic partner in scholarly communication Stakeholders trust us, we work together Researchers get much more information Librarians learned to work together, react quickly We have much more knowledge We are active internationally We save a lot

13. Together we are the POWER