Vincent Bonnet, Director vid the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA), Haag, Nederländerna

1. European Policies for an
Open Library
Vincent Bonnet – Director EBLIDA
Mötesplats Open Access (MOA), Karlstad, Sweden, 26–27 April 2017

3. LIBRARIES ARE EVERYWHERE
Upper left corner: Library of Birmingham Book rotunda 6 photocredit Christian Richters
Upper right corner: Estoria Hotel (Tallinn, Estonia), V. Bonnet
Bottom left corner: BMVR « Square Head» (Nice), CC BY 2.0 Benoît Lesquerbault
Bottom right corner: University Library , Hradec Kralove, CZ, by Amandine Jacquet

4. Homeless people camp, Noisy‐le‐Grand, 1954, source: http://laboratoireurbanismeinsurrectionnel.blogspot.it/2014/04/1944‐2014‐70‐annees‐dhabitat‐public‐70.html
1957

5. Page of the signatures of the EEC Treaty
(c) Europa Grafica – European Commission, Luxembourg representation
Signature of the Treaties of Rome, 25 mars 1957
1957 –
Treaties of Rome

6. European Union
Digital technologies
Openness & the
EU
Speech map

7. PhotoCredit:JamesD.Morgan/RexFeatures,sourcehttp://bit.ly/1yfA3zu
The Open Library is not a given

9. 2009 – Lisbon Treaty
Consolidated in 2012

10. 2009 – Brexit2012

12. 3 institutions to build the EU legislation

13. Long‐term perspective
13
EU 2020 strategy
2010-2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
EU
Presidencies
Greece/
Italy
Lavtia/
Luxembourg
Netherlands/
Slovakia
Malta/
Estonia
Bulgaria/
Austria
Romania/
Finland
Croatia/
Germany/
Multi-annual Financial Framework
1st round
evaluations
EU 2020 1st internal
versions
New
Commission
MEP election
MEP
Elections
Public
Consultations /
negotiations
Launch
post 2020
strategy
Application of new
programmes
1st round
Of
programmes
evaluations
New versions of
internal
programme
Adoption new
programmes
Public
Consultations
MFF
2020-2027

14. 1. The European Union
29‐5‐2017 Reading & Writing Foundation 14
European Quarter
Brussels
European Quarter
Brussels

15. 3 types of competences
Exclusive competence
Shared competence
No direct competence

16. What about libraries?
Not an exclusive competence
Mostly seen from the perspective of
Culture & education
Seldom from a Research perspective
CC BY‐SA 3.0 Xauxa Håkan Svensson

17. Source:http://bpmforreal.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/flip-a-coin.jpg?w=300
Library matters

18. What if libraries would turn into
a shared competence?

19. What about Euroregions?

21. The World in 100 Years (2010): Collector card, 1929“ von Ars Electronica, Lizenz: CC BY‐NC‐ND 2.0)

22. Futuristic views
Postcards from French artists Jean‐Marc Côté and Villemard on France in 2000, source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france‐in‐the‐year‐2000‐1899‐1910/ and
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/03/09/villemards‐vision‐of‐the‐future/

23. 1895
Paul Otlet and
Henri Lafontaine
develop the
Universal
Decimal
Classification
2012
Google and
the
Mundaneum
announce
their
collaboration
Paul Otlet and Henri Lafontaine
Source: http://archives.mundaneum.org/en
mundaneum
Background picture: Le Mundaneum, centre d’archives, source http://archives.mundaneum.org/fr

24. Europeana 1914‐1918

25. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/instructions

28. Number of
combinations =
10120
Number of
combinations =
10170

32. Pictures from presentation of Ron Dekker, Developments in Open Science – on national and eu level

33. Council conclusion on the transition
towards an Open Science system

34. Challenges

35. Legal issues in
Open Data

36. 14th September 2016 – EU Commission release
its:
Proposal for a Directive of the European
Parliament and of the Council on
Copyright in the Digital Single Market
47 Recitals
23 articles

37. COPYRIGHT
Key articles in the Current DSM © Directive proposal:
Article 3 on Text and Data Mining
Article 4 on Illustration for Teaching
Article 5 on Preservation by Cultural Heritage Institutions
Article 7‐9 on Out of Commerce Works

38. COPYRIGHT
JURI
CULT ITRE LIBE
IMCO

40. We are all
developing
countries when it
comes to copyright
in the digital
environment.
Prof. Divina Frau‐Meigs, professor of media sociology at
the Université Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris (France) at the
the 2nd Council of Europe Platform on culture and
digitisation in Baku in 2014

41. European Union
Digital technologies
Openness & the
EU
Conclusion

42. Picture from Facebook message of Beka
Economopoulos, Rally to Stand Up for
Science, Boston, 19 February 2017
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY CONCERNS
Screen copy of the website earth day
network

43. Picture from Facebook message of Beka
Economopoulos, Rally to Stand Up for
Science, Boston, 19 February 2017
CONCERNS
Screen copy of the website earth day network

44. Prime Minister Jüri Ratas
(Estonia)
Striving towards a
seamless physical and
digital connectivity is in
the interest of the whole
European Union as
economic success cannot
be separated from the free
movement of goods,
services, people, capital,
and knowledge.
1. Politicians

45. 2. Change the library perception
Homestead Cybrary , Florida (USA), source: http://www.archimag.com/bibliotheque‐edition/2017/03/02/cybrary‐bibliotheque‐futur‐parc‐attractions

46. 3. Seize the digital opportunities
Print screen website Smart Aarhus, source: http://www.smartaarhus.dk/

47. 4. A consistent legal framework

48. 5. Committed citizens

49. 6. Bridge the different types of libraries
Left picture: Coin Terrasse Maison d’Émilien, Séez (France) ‐ © Maison d'Émilien / Middle up picture: Health University Library , Caen (France) ‐ CC BY‐SA Amandine Jacquet / Middle down
picture, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Site Tolbiac), Paris (France) ‐ CC BY‐SA 3.0 Adriano ‐ backgound picture: De Krook, Public Library of Gent – CC by SA, Vincent Bonnet

50. 7. It is already happening

51. But we still need to move forward

52. New York (US) ‐ © John Locke / Tadoussac (CA) / USA ‐ © Little
Free Library / Schiphol (NL) ‐ © Sander Stoepker
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
VINCENT.BONNET@EBLIDA.ORG
LIBRARIES ARE EVERYWHERE