This autumn, on October 18, the Scientific Library of Riga Technical University celebrated its 160th anniversary. In honor of this important anniversary, an international conference was held, of which consisted of two parts. The first part was devoted to the historical aspects of the library’s activity, while the speakers presented the achievements, projects and future plans of academic libraries in the second. This important anniversary of the library gathered a large number of conference listeners from Latvia and abroad in the beautiful library premises. The Latvian audience was mainly made up of academic library employees, but there were also guests from cooperating partner libraries in foreign coutries: Finland and Lithuania, and virtually Moldova.
Among the speakers of this conference were also the representatives of the LU Library, Mārīte Saviča and Gita Rozenberga, who presented topic “Participation of academic libraries in open science”. This was a one-time chance for the speakers to present the LibOCS project in general and briefly the first results of two studies conducted by universities in the Baltic States. It may have prompted the library representatives to think about how to develop services to support the Citizen science initiative.
