Conference of European National Librarians
Acronym: CENL
General Information
Identification Code: 804883820905-92
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Entity Form: Foundation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/9/2016
Last Update: 11/9/2023
EP Accredited Number: 0
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
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EU Office
Address: Deutsche NationalbibliothekAdickesallee 1
Post Code: 60322
City: Frankfurt/Main
Country: GERMANY
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 1
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
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.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.cenl.org/member-libraries/
Organisation Members: CENL is no member of any other association.