Conference of European National Librarians

Acronym: CENL

General Information

Identification Code: 804883820905-92

Website: https://www.cenl.org

Entity Form: Foundation

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 3/9/2016

Last Update: 11/9/2023

Mission & Interests

Goals: The objectives of CENL are to support the European national libraries in their role to - Give everybody fast, comprehensive, multilingual and longterm access to their collections and information, and wherever appropriate without cost - Safeguard European national cultural heritage and knowledge - Do research and development to improve user services of national libraries - Promote cultural diversity and multilinguality as basic values of the European culture - Cooperate with other cultural heritage institutions, universities, publishers and information providers on a European as well as on a global level

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Culture
Culture and media
Digital economy and society
International co-operation and development

Levels of Interest:

european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Digital Single Market Initiative Interested members of CENL meet on several occasions to discuss copyright law and related information law issues that affect national libraries. The main focus is to discuss developments relating to EU copyright law, privacy and public sector information law as well as share best practices around licensing / public private partnerships.

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Deutsche NationalbibliothekAdickesallee 1

Post Code: 60322

City: Frankfurt/Main

Country: GERMANY

Phone:

Indic Phone: 49

Phone Number: 6915251063

EU Office

Address: Deutsche NationalbibliothekAdickesallee 1

Post Code: 60322

City: Frankfurt/Main

Country: GERMANY

Phone:

Indic Phone: 49

Phone Number: 6915251063

Financial Data

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Member's contributions

Contributions:

Total Budget: 157500

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 1

Members: 1

Members F T E: 0.10000000149011612

Info Members: The number of persons within CENL working on the topic of the Digital Single Market and copyright is small and none of them spend 10% of their time on this, so the FTE would be less than calculated here.