Webinar “Citizen Involvement in Open Science: Roles, Levels and Opportunities” will bring together professional researchers, amateur researchers, librarians and other memory institutions professionals, as well as other interested parties, to explore opportunities for better collaboration and more active involvement of citizens in science related activities and projects.
The Director of the Library of the University of Latvia, Mārīte Saviča, informed library specialists about the implemented project with a small publication, which could be of particular interest to the staff of academic libraries.
On 21 April this year, Mārīte Saviča, director of the Library of the University of Latvia, presented the LibOCS project and discussed the possibilities of cooperation with the Chairman of the Library Association of Latvia, Māra Jēkabsone.
On April 11, Mārīte Saviča, Director of the Library of the University of Latvia, informed the new composition of the Joint Library Council of the University of Latvia about the long-term project “LibOCS” implemented by the library as a partner from Latvia. The Council consists of the former Rector, Professor Mārcis Auziņš, Vice-Rectors of the University of Latvia: Professor Ina Druviete and Professor Valdis Segliņš, professors of the fields and student youth.
During the period of 21-31 of March partners from University of Tartu Library held three roundtables to map the drivers and barriers of civic engagement in open science and the role of university libraries in the Baltics (PR1). Each roundtable had 21 interviewees from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
