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Projects

  • IFLA Europe Regional Division Member

  • IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Board Member

  • Resource Sharing During COVID-19 (RSCVD)

  • IFLA Document Delivery & Resource Sharing Standing Committee

  • ANKOS Interlibrary Loans Tracking System (KITS),

  • ANKOS Staff Exchange Program (APDP),

  • ANKOS Academy 

HERMES
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The project promotes cooperation and partnership among 5 organizations from Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, and Spain; a national research institution, the worldwide umbrella organization for libraries, and 3 universities. All partners participate in the planned training and dissemination activities and the realization of all outputs.

Moreover, HERMES can count on a number of associated partners participating to the project as testers and first beneficiaries of the training activities and, last but not least, of an outstanding  Scientific Committee which guides the team in revising and finalizing the foreseen outputs.

The project’s transnational nature is important, firstly for the different perspectives that partners have towards resource sharing given that they are based in different regions and are involved in different levels of resource-sharing implementation, as well as facing different difficulties. The partners’ views complement each other by allowing, under the guidance of IFLA as a super partes organization, a comprehensive review of existing resource sharing systems, networks and guidelines.

Secondly, partners’ complementary specific competences make it possible to design a training programme covering all the main issues related to finding and accessing digital content through Open Access tools and library resource-sharing services, as well as to helping users overcome these difficult times by making best use of library services even at distance.

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