About EBLIDA

                                                               Libraries from a European perspective
                                                                                       The role and work of EBLIDA 1992-2002

EBLIDA constitution

What is EBLIDA?

An independent non-governmental and non-commercial umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and organisations in Europe. Subjects on which EBLIDA concentrates are copyright, culture, Telematics, Central and Eastern Europe, information society related matters and information technology.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation (updated version) on the work of EBLIDA. If you are attending a conference or event and wish to present EBLIDA on behalf of your organisation, please feel free to download the presentation. Why not promote your membership of EBLIDA at your annual/national conference?

EBLIDA is your representative voice in Europe!

What are the objectives of EBLIDA?

The major objectives of EBLIDA are:

• to serve and promote the interests of the library and information science profession at European level, ranging from the European Commission to the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the Council of Ministers and the Council of Europe;

• to give the members up-to-date information on all relevant developments in the European Union;

• to strengthen co-operation between the members.

How is EBLIDA organised?

The bodies of the association are:

• Council
• Executive Committee  
• Secretariat  

The Council is composed of representatives of full members and associate members. It decides on the policy of the association and its general structure. Only full members have a voting right and can be elected on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee exercises all managerial and administrative powers. The Secretariat carries out the decisions of the Council and the Executive Committee and directs the day-to-day activities of the association.

What can EBLIDA offer its members?

• promotion of interests

• active involvement of members in European information policies

• consultation and advice

• information on European developments

• ECUP+ (European Copyright User Platform)

• CECUP (Central and Eastern European Copyright User Platform)

• CELIP (Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform)

• TECUP (Test bed implementation of the ECUP framework) - business models in the electronic information market

• PULMAN (PUblic Libraries Mobilising Advancing Networks)

• CALIMERA: Cultural Applications Local Institutions Mediating Electronic Resource Access

How do we keep our members informed?

• Hot News and Update have merged into one single publication "EBLIDA Hot News, the EBLIDA monthly newsletter on European library & information society issues", which includes information on European directives, programmes, news and events of interest to the library and cultural heritage community. Update on European Funding Opportunities offers a digest of e.g. calls for proposals, tenders, expressions of interest, written questions by members of the European Parliament and legislative and non-legislative proposals.

• regular news via the closed mailing list on the Internet for EBLIDA members only;

• website to keep members informed about recent developments of interest;

• distribution of documents of the European institutions.

How to become a member or sponsor?

Categories are:

• full member

• associate member

• basic or patron sponsorship for commercial organisations

Admission as full member is open to:

• professional associations in Member States of the European Union engaged on a national representative level in pursuing the interests of library and information science services;

• organisations in Member States of the European Union whose members are in a majority drawn from Member States of the European Union.

Admission as associate member is open to:

• similar organisations in European states which are not Members of the European Union;

• other organisations, institutes and individual libraries.

A full member has a voting right in the Council and can be elected onto the Executive Committee. An associate member has a seat on the Council, but has no voting right.

Basic sponsorship and Patron sponsorship are open to all commercial companies and includes the receipt of all written information and documents, but gives no status in the association. Both sponsor types have no voting rights but are granted distinct privileges in the association.

EBLIDA sponsors

How much does it cost?

Application form

For further information or to receive an information pack on our work, please contact:

EBLIDA
PO Box 16359
NL-2500 BJ The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 70 309 05 51
Fax: +31 70 309 05 58
Email: eblida@debibliotheken.nl

Created: 13 November 1997
Last updated: 22 January 2007