El Nuevo Europeo

On 12 and 13 June, a group of librarians from the Central Library of the Council of the European Union attended this year’s Eurolib general assembly, held in The Hague.

Eurolib is the collaboration group of libraries of the EU institutions, EU agencies, services and other bodies. It exists since 1985. Its meetings are the main platform for EU institutions’ librarians to collaborate, learn and share best practices. The 2014 general assembly was hosted by Europol and Eurojust. Discussions focused on ongoing projects, shared initiatives and issues of common concern.

The European Parliamentary Research Service presented the consolidated public procurement forward planning of Eurolib libraries, in view to facilitate the launch of interinstitutional procurement procedures.

The Central Library of the European Commission announced its newly created Netvibes portal on open access resources, as well as practical implementation results of e-books.

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction…