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LITHUANIAN RESEARCH LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
IN A NUTSHELL
Aušra Vaškevičienė
Lithuanian Research Library Consortium
www.lmba.lt
11-11-2015, Riga
Outline
• Library Cooperation in Lithuania• Establishment of the Lithuanian Research
Library Consortium (LMBA)• The main activities of the LMBA
Lithuanian Librarians Association (LBD)
Lithuanian Academic
Library Association
(LABA)
Consortium of Lithuanian
Academic Libraries Information
Infrastructure for Science and
Studies Maintenance and
Expansion Lithuanian Research
Library Consortium
(LMBA)
Lithuanian County Public Library
Association
Lithuanian Municipal
Public Library
Association
Lithuanian Colleague
Library Association
Established – 4th December 2001
• Big debate – who can be members (only academic and reserch libraries, or the National Library and county public libraries also)
• 23 libraries – founders, currently – 55 members
The statement in the Statute: “… 10.3. subscribe to online databases for the members
of the Consortium and other libraries; …
The office of the LMBA
Management of the LMBA
• The General Stakeholders meeting is the supreme management body
• The Council – 7 members• President • Head of administration
• Number of employees – 7 (1 full time)
LMBA paid staff• President (only from October 2015) • Accountant (from 2002)• Head of Consortium administration (from 2004)• Database administrator (from 2007)• Public procurement specialist (from 2005)• Lawyer (only for EU projects, 2009–2015)• English language translator (from 2009)• IT support for office (from 2009)
Income sources
• Membership fees and allocated contribution– joining fees – 76 €,
– annual membership fees – fixed part 171 € (~ 128 € until 2010) + variable part for services
• Projects’ funds• The accession contributions made by the
members
The main activities of the LMBA• Subscription to electronic databases for
Consortium members and other libraries (2015: 37 agreements for 47 databases, 7 e-books)
• Advocacy (OA, IP, etc.) and fundraising (EU funding, Ministries‘ grants, etc.)
• Knowledge sharing• Enhancement of professional competencies of
librarians• Participation in the EU and other programmes
and projects• Co-operation with other organizations
Communication
• http://www.lmba.lt • Closed member‘s forum• 2 annual meetings• E-mails to individual libraries or their groups• Skype, telephone• Visits to individual libraries• Reporting activities to members, funders and
politicians
International cooperation
Why it is important to have the consortium?
• LMBA became strategic partner in scholarly communication
• Stakeholders trust us, we work together• Researchers get much more information• Librarians learned to work together, react quickly• We have much more knowledge• We are active internationally• We save a lot
Together we are the POWER