We are pleased to inform you that the September issue of the Journal of EAHIL is now available online at http://ojs.eahil.eu/ojs/index.php/JEAHIL/index This issue is dedicated to the EAHIL 2022 Conference in Rotterdam....

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Following the Russian Federation's armed attack on Ukraine the Council of Europe has decided to suspend the Russian Federation's right of representation in the Council of Europe. Since EAHIL is an association under the auspices of the Council of Europe the Executive Board has decided to suspend the rights of the EAHIL members from the Russian Federation from nominating candidates for the upcoming...

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On Thursday 21 October a group of Chairs and Secretaries from various EAHIL SIG:s got together on Zoom. The meeting was initiated by Alicia Fatima Gomez Sanchez, and was originally planned to take place at the Lodz conference. The aim of the inter-SIG meeting was to share good ideas on how to work successfully in a SIG, and to discuss common challenges. At the meeting participants shared th...

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EAHIL is in need of a new membership database, since the current one isn't as user friendly as we wish. It is also somewhat lacking in functionality when it comes to the possiblity for members update their records, to enable Council members  access to a list of members in their country, for voting at elections and applying for scholarships etc. Does the library association in your country use ...

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As a member of IFLA EAHIL is allowed membership in four sections, without additional cost. As an association we’re also automatically added to the Management of Library Associations section. The IFLA Sections are the primary focus for the Federation's work in a particular type of library and information service, in an aspect of library and information science or in a region. All IFLA Members are...

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Today EAHIL had its yearly council meeting via zoom. The council members were requested to have read the "paper work" before the meeting. The meeting contained minutes from the 2020 council meeting in Lodz, last year´s president´s report were discussed and we finished off with an interactive session, a follow-up from the council meeting in Basel (2019). The baseline is: what can every coun...

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Our editor Federica Napolitani  informs us that the March issue of the Journal of EAHIL is now available online at http://ojs.eahil.eu/ojs/index.php/JEAHIL It is dedicated to the 2020 EAHIL Lodz-online Conference and contains other interesting papers and reports. The JEAHIL Board wish to thank the following sponsors for sustaining the journal:  The New England Journal of Medicine, T...

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The election of council members took place online in the membership database 2nd November - 10th November 2020 in these countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom. The new or newly elected council members for the four year period of 2021-2024 are:...

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EAHIL now has seven special interest groups, see the Sub groups page. EAHIL Sub Groups work within EAHIL to bring together groups of members on a subject of special interest. They contribute to the strength of EAHIL by encouraging members to take an active interest in professional affairs. The groups are, in alphabetical order: The European Veterinary Libraries Group (EVLG) The Evaluati...

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We seek nominations for the election of President (2021-2022) and Board members (2021-2024). We will have vacancies for President, four executive Board members, and two co-opted Board members. (EAHIL co-opts the two un-elected candidates with the highest number of votes as non-executive Board members for a two-year period.) We already have some excellent candidates but we need more as there are so...

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