What happened since last GA? An update Rima Kupryte, EIFL Director EIFL General Assembly Lund,...

What happened since last GA?An update

Rima Kupryte, EIFL Director

EIFL General AssemblyLund, Sweden 6-8 August, 2010

New EIFL staff

Rosalie Lack, Deputy Director

New EIFL staff

Ilaria Vallati, Programme Support

New EIFL staff

EIFL-FOSS Manager: Simon Ball

New EIFL staff

Ilse Gey van Pittius, Licensing Programme Support

New logo

We felt that after 10 years it was time to take another look at our identity, which includes among other things our name, the look and feel of our website, our printed materials, and most importantly our message.

Starting with the logo…

New name

Where's the .net? • Instead of eIFL.net, we are now EIFL• We made the decision to drop the .net because

we felt it was dated to the early days of the web as was the lower case "e"

EIFL not

eIFL.net

New strapline/tagline

It conveys our mission by focusing on the end result -- knowledge

“without boundaries" encompasses the work of all our programmes; working towards removing all boundaries to knowledge, whether they be economic or legal or geographic

New marketing and outreach materials

New website coming soon…

Home page•Simplified, less overwhelming•Clear message of what we do•Updated design•New colors that reflect the vibrancy of our partner countries and progammes

Secondary Pages•Clear and consistent navigation•Less text and better formatted to make for easy reading •Photos to tell our story

Google MapLocate consortium and member libraries

New licensed resource pages•Simplified browse by title or vendor•Enhanced descriptive information•License agreements easily accessible

A2K For Education, Learning and Research

Access to Knowledge for Education, Learning and Research – ensuring well-resourced libraries, modern ICT infrastructure and skilled staff to provide essential support to students and scholars.

• EIFL-Licensing• EIFL-OA• EIFL-IP• EIFL-FOSS

A2K for Sustainable Community Development

Access to Knowledge for Sustainable Community Development – helping to transform lives through innovative services in public libraries.

• EIFL-PLIP (Public Library Innovation Program)

EIFL-Licensing 2010

New agreements signed with:– Taylor and Francis Group: access to over 1220

journals– Ebrary : access to Academic Complete (48,000

books) and subject collections– OECD: access to iLibrary (all OECD publications, 22

statistical databases with 300+cross searchable datasets and 4 billion data points -all in both French and English)

EIFL-Licensing 2010

3 year renewal agreements signed with : –Cambridge Journals Online: Access to the

Complete Collection (over 230 journals, including Medical titles for the first time) and individual subject collections–Britannica Online –Oxford Reference Online/Oxford English

Dictionary OnlineNew activity: Promotional campaigns

EIFL-Licensing 2010 still to come Finalise 3-year renewals for:

– Emerald Journals– Grove Art Online/Grove Music Online– Institute of Physics – Multi-Science Journals– Oxford Scholarship Online– Oxford Journals Collection– Project Muse

Finalise new agreement for:

Oxford Handbooks Online

Communication initiatives:Continue to plan and implement awareness-building campaigns to increase subscriptions and usage

EIFL-OA 2010Advocacy:

Three OA advocacy national workshops and more to come…Partner in EC funded project OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for

Research in Europe) Open Access Week 2010Small grants for outreach to the research community

Training and capacity building:Chair of working group “Repository and Repository Networks Support and Training” at Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Online support and networking

Knowledge sharing:Two reports: 1) An evaluation report on Open Repository Development in Developing and Transition Countries 2) Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries EIFL website and facebook

EIFL-IP 2010Training and Capacity Building:

Launch of Online Open Curriculum on Copyright Law “ Copyright for Librarians”

Support the attendance of EIFL-IP librarians to WIPO (Malawi and Zimbabwe in June and for autumn session we will bring 2 more)

Meeting with Library Schools from Europe to discuss integration of “Copyright for librarians” Curriculum into LIS national programs

Advanced training for EIFL-IP librarians to further build their advocacy skills and confidence

Promotional national and international law reform:Supported Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Moldova and Zambia on their draft

copyright laws and continue to support those that are going through revisionsSupporting WIPO Member States with expert advice on library limitations & exceptionsEIFL will work with the African Group to try to find agreement on their new proposal for a WIPO Treaty on Exceptions and Limitations for the Disabled, Educational and Research Institutions, Libraries

EIFL-FOSS 2010

• Received funding for the second phase of the 18 month program

• Program Manager on a part-time basis since July 19

• Developing the program

• Collecting input and in September we will be launching the Second phase of EIFL-FOSS

EIFL-PLIP 2010Grants program:

325 proposals received from 49 countries 12 projects awarded:Children and youth: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ghana, Lithuania and ZambiaFarmers: Chile and SerbiaHealth: KenyaEmployment and economic development: Macedonia and NepalLocal content: Cambodia and Mexico Visually impaired: Mongolia

Advocacy:Relevance of public libraries to the community through capturing stories and global mediaResearching opinion of decision makers of public libraries in few countries in Africa and launching campaign trying to change the behavior

Our funders 20102010 we started with the budget of 1,4 million Euro

EIFL participation fee contribution to the budget: around 65,000 euro

Publishers sponsorship towards GA: 15,700 euro

Swedish Library Association sponshorship towards GA : 20,000 euro

Grants for operations and program delivery:• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation• European Commission 7th Framework Program• Ford Foundation• John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation• Koha Foundation• Open Society Institute (OSI)• UNESCO • Wellcome Trust

Share your story. It is important!Why? Important for fundraising and communicating

your work to your members and users:• For EIFL Spotlight: issue or activity highlights +

achievements • For EIFL News • For your own website, funders and mediaWhat? Something small or big showing impact of your

work on institution’s or people’s lives or an event that resulted in concrete outcomes:

• Listen to what your colleagues, students, faculty or general public say or compliment

Share your story. It is important

How? By capturing it in words (quote) andpictures• Send an e-mail to Rosalie (rosalie.lack@eifl.net) or

Teresa (Teresa.Hackett@eifl.net) • We will follow up, help to determine the angle of a

story, and write the story for you to read and approve!• Write on “Share a story” sheet of paper in your packet

while you are here and hand it to Rosalie or Teresa. • Meet Leslie Chan and speak to him!

Examples

How did we get current stories? Lesotho: Teresa heard from Tseli that a researcher

was very exited to discover all the electronic resources available through the library and Tseli documented her discovery story

Palestine: Diana randomly mentioned that after Vilnius GA workshop on FOSS, where she learned about FOSS solutions that can bring old computers back to life, she gave material to her IT department and they implemented it.

Examples

There are many individuals in your countries that can tell their stories

Examples that inspire me: IICD.org

Websites: It is importantStatistics on consortium websites

• 16 consortia do not have sites• 12 had content that was very, very old

• We want to help

New (FREE!) EIFL ServiceWith EIFL’s new website platform Drupal we willbe able to offer: Option 1: Use our template at no costURL options:• www.eifl.net/[your name]• Use your current URL• You buy a new URL

New EIFL service

Option 2: Build your own site• You build• You hire someone to build• You hire EIFL staff to build

We can offer our server only to websites thatare built on Drupal platform