Conference Program

Ollandezou Lia - Librarian - HEAL-Link / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Florou Popi - Librarian - HEAL-Link / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Araka Iliana - Librarian - HEAL-Link
Kourmoulis Giannis - IT Support - Library & Information Centre / A.U.Th.
Universities and research centers, as part of their mission, seek to promote research and the dissemination of knowledge to their respective research communities and society. The development of information technologies, along with the quest for Open Access and transparency throughout the research process, have led to many changes and innovations in scholarly communication, both in the form of services and in the way knowledge is communicated.
This presentation examines the impact of the use of electronic resources provided by HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link) to members of the Greek research community over the past 20 years, at the level of scholarly publishing and communication. Through a timeline of key developments in scholarly publishing, from electronic and digital access to Open Access, it will analyze the evolution of scholarly publishing and link it to the electronic resources provided by HEAL-Link.
The paper studies the operating models of major publishers, how they influence researchers 'decisions about their choices, the researchers' attitudes towards the dissemination and sharing of research in relation to Greek and European reality. It seeks to illuminate how opposite forces, such as university rankings versus research funding and competition versus cooperation, are influencing the evolution of scholarly publishing.
An assessment is made of the future of scholarly publishing in line with the European Union's principles and directives. Finally, ways of linking research with technology in European reality are presented, as well as ways to improve accessibility, use, equality and inclusivity in the workflow of scholarly communication.

Pispiringas Leonidas - Software Developer - Network technologies and infrastructure Manager - HEAL-Link Hellenic Academic Libraries Link / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Simaioforidis Zisis - System administrator–Software Developer - HEAL-Link Hellenic Academic Libraries Link / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Papadaki Despoina - Librarian - Central Library / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The infrastructures of the Electronic Resources department of HEAL-Link is an integral and essential part of the proper and efficient functioning of the provided services, which will be described in detail at the presentation. Here are indicative mentioned a few of HEAL-Link’s newest services.
The new HEAL-Link Portal has been developed aiming at increasing the usability of users, as well as providing some new features in the context of better informing the users such as mini - blogs (Open Access, Upcoming Events etc.). Future plans include incorporating user notifications when new articles are published in their favorite journals, integrating with the unified search engine.
The HARDMIN research data repository is the backbone of the HEAL-Link’s Research Data Infrastructure for the Academic Institutions, which is a single infrastructure incorporated with the National Digital Research Infrastructures and under the auspices of the Hellenic Data Service (HELIX) and all the European infrastructures for Open Science. During the pilot phase, various types of research data are deposited, and real-time usage scenarios, such as harvesting from third-party member repositories, are examined through accounts that have been distributed to qualified users. By the end of the year, HARDMIN will be available to the Academic Institutions.
As part of the agreement with DataCite, passwords have been assigned to each institution in order to enable them to assign DOIs to their repository records. A detailed webinar of the service has taken place and DOIs assignment forms have been created to the new portal. In addition, a support office has been set up to help connect the institutional repositories with the DataCite API.
As part of the HEAL-Link’s agreement with ORCID, two integrations are to be completed, one at the Aristotle’s Quality Assurance Unit and one at the HARDMIN repository and the Hellenic Data Service. An informative webinar on ORCID has taken place and a workshop will be held at the 25th PALC.

Iliakis Alexandros - Librarian - Central Library / National Technical University of Athens
Frantzi Maria - Librarian - Library and Information Center / University of Patras
The paper presents the actions of Greek academic libraries and of HEAL-Link on open access since the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in 2003 to date. The majority of Greek universities has developed institutional repositories but the mandatory deposit is restricted to master and dissertation theses. The deposit of the publications by researchers and faculty members is recommended with few exceptions. Many academic libraries have digitized Greek books and journals, mainly of archival content, and few of them have developed platforms and systems for the publication of open access electronic journals without APC’s for authors. A national open access policy hasn’t yet been set up and there is no funding from national agencies and / or organizations to cover the cost of publishing, although some institutions cover it partially. HEAL-Link for its part, has undertaken initiatives to support and enhance open access. It has achieved the inclusion of open access terms and conditions, where feasible, in renewal contracts with publishers for the years 2019-2021. It also participates in various open access actions and initiatives and it is developing a central infrastructure as a research data repository for its members.

Lenaki Katerina - Open Science Trainer (FOSTER) & Open Data Trainer (ODI) - Department E’ / Liaison with the European Higher Education Policy, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
Pontika Nancy - Open Access Aggregation Officer - FOSTER, CORE, KMI, The Open University
The international and constantly growing Open Science movement supports a shift in publication habits and transforms scientific communication. Its mission is to make knowledge deriving from the research lifecycle accessible and unrestricted, maximizing the value by its open sharing, for scientists, scholars and the public. In the European Higher Education Area, an increasing number of organisations, institutions and bodies realize the Open Science benefits and adopt it with the introduction of supportive declarations and policies. At the same time, new infrastructure is being implemented and projects that by default promote and support it, are funded.
In Greece, the momentum towards Open Science is currently at its beginning, indicating an urgent need to familiarize and educate all stakeholders with its basic concepts, principles and best practices. In this context, Greek Academic Libraries must be present to support this effort in the Greek Higher Education and further, thanks to their past priceless experience in scientific information and user training.
This presentation, will refer to Open Science training initiatives, implemented at a European context, with the aim of disseminating Open Science culture and best practices and among them to the experience and the rich output generated within FOSTER programme (Fostering the Practical Implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond). Furthermore, it will include suggestions regarding future steps of such training in Greece, in order to establish Open Science in Higher Education and offer the best prospects to the Greek academic research.

Vougiouklis George - ELiDOC Technical manager
Tsiokos Alexandros - Computer Systems Engineer - ELiDOC System & Services
In big interdisciplinary organizations there are a lot of different Data Bases with specialized material. Each DB has its own access interface according to the structure of the data and different material type. Therefore the problem for the end user in order to have an integrated image of what he is looking for is that he must search all data bases. Furthermore he should be familiar with the functionality of each interface. Ergo, the existence of a unified access interface for all the DBs, could be the ideal solution for the end user.
The development of the suggested application presumes that the data of each DB must be homogenized to a final format. This procedure is a multi-step application involving many difficulties due to:
• Different structure or format of each DB
• Automatic export of data of the target DB
• Automatic load of data to the final application
• Data conversions
• Definition of indexes
• Design of display screens according to the type of material
The aim of this presentation is to show in detail this procedure and present some applications we have developed over the recent years for different libraries. The front end S/W we use is either an Open Source or a proprietary package according to the specifications of each library.

Christodoulou George - Lecturer - International Hellenic University / Library Science, Archival and Information Systems Dept.
Togia Aspasia - Assistant Professor - International Hellenic University / Library Science, Archival and Information Systems Dept.

Papadakis Konstantinos - Librarian - University of Crete
The Holy Metropolis of Rethymnon and Avlopotamos has approximately one hundred parishes and ten monasteries. Every foundation owns its great collection of books, which are essential to worship. Sometimes beside them there are other books of spiritual building, Holy Scriptures, interpretive, saints lives, speeches etc. From time to time we meet other books of secular content, school books, agronomic, veterinary even literature. The problem with the afore mentioned collections is in the geographical fragmentation of the material, which remains most of the times unknown therefore unapproachable for research.
In the latest years in the margins of our official duties we conduct a systematic research in ecclesiastical libraries which exist in the geographical borders of the holy church of Rethymno and Avlopotamos attempting to detect books from the beginning of printing to the end of the 19th century. We compile a united list which includes a brief bibliographic description with reference to national bibliography and URL address, if the edition is offered in a digital form. The description becomes analytical if the edition is unassuming or when the copy completes/corrects the previous bibliography. Then we provide information for every copy: location, bounding, transcription of various notes etc. Lastly we provide information for the preservation of every copy (completeness, damages).
Thus we create the presuppositions needed so as to proceed in the future in the electronic registering and digitalization of the material. An indicative example is provided via the church library of Margarites from which we have brought in the central library of the University of Crete two books and two single leaf of the 19th century, where documentation, preventive maintenance, scanning and inclusion in the digital evidence of Anemi collection took place.
This programme can be rendered as a template of cooperation between the University of Crete with society in order to highlight the local cultural reserve in the digital era.

Eva Veloso, IEEE Area Manager for Southern Europe & LATAM, discusses IEEE's Open Science initiatives including IEEE Open Access programs and tools to support the reproducibility and data-related needs of the global technical community.

Although original thinking is critical for thriving in our modern society, it may be surprising to learn that this isn’t a skill that we are born with. With this in mind, what does it take to instil these critical skills into our students?
In this presentation, Turnitin’s Channel Business Manager, Maarten-Jan Horck, will focus on the holistic approach to academic integrity as a means to combat academic misconduct and improve the quality of student writing across an institution. This presentation will highlight how technology can play a supportive role in the learning process, helping institutions to move away from a culture of plagiarism “detection” and towards longlasting prevention. By using originality and feedback-focused technology, we can prepare our future world leaders for their future and ultimately achieve academic excellence.

Short break for light lunch in the conference premises

Tsagkaraki Vasiliki - Librarian-Instructor - University of Crete - Library
In the era of information overload, the Library must forsee the current needs of its users in order to correspond in good time to its demands.
As far as the Reference Department is concerned, the Library has to identify the user’s skills and help him/her to be able to distinguish (through research methods) the pieces of information.
Therefore, the information literacy courses, that take place in the Library, aim to make the most of prior knowledge of each user. The Librarian serves as an instructor- leader, creates a new type of user, an autonomous user, who knows how to evaluate and use library resources, so as to reach his/her academic goal.
At the Library and Information Center at Heraklion, the information literacy courses are constantly improved. This academic year 2019-2020, a new learning app (kahoot) has been chosen for presenting the library services. The new comers are permitted to use their mobiles in the seminar room and answer to an online quiz referring to the university library. They can see directly on the PowerPoint wall screen their answers showing what they know or do not know. So the librarian can seize the opportunity and explain more about library issues. As a result, the training course becomes interactive and more interesting to the techno-addicted students. The course is completed when the students succeed in making search in the Library Catalogue (OPAC).

Efthymiou Foteini - Librarian - NTUA
Kapnizou Maria - Librarian - NTUA
Kokkinos Dionysis - Librarian - NTUA
Sisamaki Evgenia - Subject librarian - NTUA
Information Literacy has nowadays a primary and substantial role within Academic Libraries worldwide. Aiming to respond to these new trends of modern education, the Central Library of the National Technical University of Athens has developed the Service “Information Literacy Workshops”, by utilizing services and tools developed in the past by HEALlink within the framework of the Program “Digital Convergence”. The purpose of this paper is to describe the project of the development of an Information Literacy (IL) Service in the context of a Hellenic Academic Library, by discussing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that the project team encountered. Specifically, this paper aims to enhance academic librarians’ understanding of an IL Service’s development in three ways: firstly, by narrating a real story with failures and successes and thus offering the chance to reflect upon them; secondly, by deepening in this project’s design, implementation and evaluation; thirdly, by proposing better practices that could inspire Hellenic Academic Libraries to create from scratch their own IL Service or to develop their existed one further.

Mamma Eleni - Archivist-Librarian, MSc - General State Archives of Greece
Vasilakaki Evgenia - Librarian, PHD - National Library of Greece
The 85th IFLA World Library Congress, which was held in Athens at the premisses of Megaron Athens Concert Hall from 24th until the 30th of August, tackled the issue of «Libraries: dialogue for change». During the Conference 3.500 delegates participated from 135 countries; 70 library visits took place; and 7 satellite meetings were hosted in different cities around Greece. The aim of this article is to describe the project management of the Volunteers Committee which organized and trained 250 volunteers for the IFLA WLIC. Details are provided on the sub-projects carried out from September 2018 until the days running the conference. Moreover, emphasis is placed on the good practices, the challenges of hosting a congress of thousands of participants as well as on the ways we dealt with the management of knowledge that came on the surface on a daily basis. This article uses the method of case study providing examples on the volunteers groups positions and shifts allocated for the Congress. Last but not least, the Volunteers’ Committee consisted of scientists and academics from the Library and Archives community, with knowledge and expertise as well as with the necessary enthusiasm and passion for the successful organization of the 250 volunteers project.

Zervas Marios - Library Director - Cyprus University of Technology
Artemi Petros - Librarian - Cyprus University of Technology
The development of institutional repositories, mainly through the use of open source software and their establishment as an important research archiving tool in a local and international environment where competition between universities and research institutions, is intensive. Also very important is the promotion of open access and author pay models as an alternative method of publishing with commercial publishers. Furthermore, the increasing pressures of government research funders and in particular the European Union to promote open access through the Horizon2020 funding program and Plan S principles, they makes necessary the development of institutional repositories in order to archive the research output.
During its first years of operation, CUT Library followed the directives of the European University Association (EUA) and created an institutional repository. Using the open source software DSpace, it obtained a mandatory for the submission of all research output to the institutional repository. Furthermore the CUT Library followed guidelines for the next generation institutional repositories as published by the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group.
The "Cyprus University of Technology Open Access Author Fund” is an initiative of the CUT Library as a culmination of the Library’s actions leading to the promotion of open access and the support of academics and researchers in the publication of their research in peer reviewed electronic journals and open access books where the author bears the publication costs.
The CUT Library in support of the non-profit organization ORCID developed the necessary tools to connect university members with the university and the institutional repository KTISIS, as well as with their ORCID profile and collect data. The current article describes the Library's ongoing efforts to collect research output from international databases such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed and regarding the transition to a Current Research Information System (DSpace-CRIS).
Through the Current Research Information System researchers are able to log in to their KTISIS profile using their personal ORCID account. This enables them to manage all their research publication activities and beyond, such as, attending international conferences (internally and externally), Committees and speeches at conferences, etc. The research activities included in the research portfolio provide a complete overview of research output, at the level of university authorities and evaluators, the faculty, the department and the researcher. Also considering the ongoing competition between universities locally and internationally, by participating in 'rankings' assessments that require a complete record of research activities, it is important that this effort is supported by the university authorities.
Keywords: Institutional Repositories, Scholarly publications, Open Access, Current Research Information System (CRIS), ORCID, Research portfolio

Ioannou Anastasia - Librarian - University of Cyprus
Koukounidou Vasiliki - Librarian / Archivist - University of Cyprus
Prodromou Evelthon - IT Officer - University of Cyprus
Prokopiou, Louis - Information Support Office ( coordinator ) Assistant Librarian - University of Cyprus
Diomides Elena - Library Deputy Director - University of Cyprus
The purpose of this announcement is to present the new Institutional Repository of the University of Cyprus. The main objective of the Institutional Repository is to collect and present the research output of the University of Cyprus. At the same time, it provides the Institution's researchers with the opportunity to submit their research publications and the ability to fulfil their obligations to the European Commission (Article 29.2) or other research funders, for Open Access to research outputs.
This infrastructure follows standards, metadata schemes and interoperability, which ensure efficient management of digital content of different types and access to this content through international search engines, websites and harvesters.
The material collected is mostly freely available to the general public. The Institutional Repository adopts open access policies and works intensively to maximize the visibility of the University of Cyprus scientific and research work. The development of the Institutional Repository was implemented and supported by the Information Technology & Applications Development Office in collaboration with the Digitisation and Archives Office of the University of Cyprus Library, which also acts as the National Open Access Desk of the OPENAIRE EU project in Cyprus.
For the purposes of this announcement, the development, challenges and future plans for upgrading the GNOSIS Institutional Repository will be analyzed.

Emmanouilidou Efrosyni - Librarian - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Theodoropoulos Theodoros - System Administrator - AUTh Library and Information Centre
In an effort to promote and give prominence to open access ejournals published by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki through Prothiki AUTh – Scientific publications management, a service provided by Library & Information Centre AUTh, a need has arisen to adopt international practices and procedures already carried out in scientific communication (COPE, OASPA, DOAJ) something that happens to coincide with the global attempt from diverse stakeholders to set guidelines and principles for the proper management of scientific data. One typical feature of the aforementioned practice is to assign permanent identifiers to digital content and data the so called DOIs (digital object identifiers). Details of the DOI allocation workflow together with required procedures for the distinct journal roles in Prothiki’s environment are being presented. It is described how Prothiki’s journals will benefit from DOI system in conjunction with the adoption of a set of principles and best practice requirements. The challenge emerging is the development of guidelines for the management of scientific content and the addition of extra value to data in terms of consistency in description, proper attribution alongside with infrastructure improvement and interoperability. To achieve that, we need to raise awareness within researchers about the progress being made and the available capabilities they may have to handle an early stage content and data management. In this way, libraries are gaining relevant expertise and can play an influential role not only in the implementation of standardized procedures but also in the integration of new methods and practices into institutional policies. The first action plan to this direction is the development of a helpdesk for assigning DOIs under a contract held by HEAl-Link with Datacite. Primary goal for the helpdesk is to provide educational seminars to researchers and be a starting point for the collection, resolution and preparation of the content produced throughout the university.

Koukourakis Manolis - Chair of Organization Comitee, Library Director, University of Crete‎

Tzitzikas Yannis - Associate professor - Computer Science Department, University of Crete
Marketakis Yannis - Software Engineer - Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
Digital Preservation refers to the endeavor to protect digital material from loss, damage, and changes in technology (hardware and software) as well as in community knowledge. As modern society and the economy become increasingly dependent on information that is available only digitally, the volume and diversity of digital objects held by libraries, archives, companies and citizens is increasing. Therefore, the preservation of digital material is now more important than ever. However, the problem of Digital Preservation is complex. Understanding the problem and its dimensions is important for safeguarding and maximizing the benefits from the available digital material. Therefore, digital preservation education is important. For this reason we will present a method for decomposing the problem of Digital Preservation based on the concept of Digital Preservation Pattern. We will present 14 such patterns, their interrelations, and a more general and more abstract patterns that covers the foregoing and is based on modern knowledge representation and reasoning techniques. Finally, we will refer to an educational book that uses this decomposition and exploits the value of myth and storytelling to attract the interest of the reader and to raise awareness.

Zachos Georgios - Library Director - University of Ioannina
The talk is an attempt to trace the future of the Greek Academic Libraries, which as well as of Academic Libraries internationally, is uncertain. Understanding future trends and adjusting to those trends in a timely manner is therefore extremely important. The technological developments, especially in information technology and networks, as well as new educational practices applied in Higher Education internationally and gradually in our country, which alter the Academic Libraries and even call into question their very existence, are presented.
For predicting the new tends and making realistic proposals for adapting the Greek Academic Libraries to the requirements of the future, it is very important to know the conditions and decisions of the past that shaped them. For this reason, the course of the Greek Academic Libraries over the last 35 years is summarized: the factors that influenced them, the achievements they recorded, successful and failed choices they made are given.
Based on our knowledge of the past, suggestions are made for the actions and initiatives to be taken both at the individual Library level and as Greek Academic Libraries collectively to adapt to future conditions and requirements in order Greek Academic Libraries to continue and in future to operate as essential educational and research infrastructures of our Universities.

Kakali Konstantia - Director - Panteion University
Vardakosta Ifigenia - Head Librarian - Harokopio University - Library & Information Centre
Papadodimou Anastasia - Harokopio University - Library & Information Centre
Academic libraries operate as a “hub” for transferring knowledge from universities to society, providing additional motives for action.
The outreach shown by academic libraries has recently focused on their efforts to interact with the existing local communities beyond the traditional functions addressed for their users.
Thus, the role of the library has expanded as academic librarians are taking advantage of opportunities for new collaborations both within and outside of their academic community, based on the recognition that libraries' can also be a partner in education and research "and not just a place to study or a repository”.
The presentation will briefly outline the current state of academic libraries and highlight the knowledge transfer and outreach.
Emphasizing academic libraries long experience in collaborations and referring to the existing collaborative schemes that have been formed in the Greek librarianship community, the presentation aims to address the factors that determine their interaction with local communities, while will focus on the actions they can take on a local network development to enhance their active role in knowledge sharing and social well-being.

Ifigenia Vardakosta - Head Librarian - Harokopio University - Library & Information Centre
Kouri Stavroula - Library & Information Centre Director - National Technical University of Athens
Gerolimos Michalis - Librarian - National Library of Greece
Koufakou Eftychia - Librarian - National Library of Greece
Geographical information is an important type of information, related to citizens’ daily activities, as well as to issues of the wider working and living environment in which they live and work. This makes geographic information a commodity of high economic and political value, that further supports a large number of government services to the citizen.
Although academic libraries have been demonstrating operational innovations and actions in the past years, only a limited number sustain geographical collections and services. At the same time, librarians do not use maps and geospatial data, while they seem unable to identify potential GIS needs in their institution. As a result, they do not follow a management strategy for GIS while largely ignore the production of geospatial data by their academic community. The aforementioned above, as a consequence are also reflected to the users habits, which have turned to the internet since they consider Greek libraries as insufficient for covering their geo-informational needs. These data acted as a trigger for action for academic libraries, assisted by the National Library of Greece as well, with academic departments for which geographic information is an educational and research priority.
Thus, in addition to justifying the importance of geographical information, the paper will present the Geographic Libraries Group to the wider library community and will describe the objectives that led to its establishment. Finally, the actions of cooperation achieved at both organizational and target levels will be noted.

Aristidou Barbara - Librarian - Cyprus University of Technology - Library
Panagiotou Athanasia - Librarian - Cyprus University of Technology - Library
Zervas Marios - Library Director - Cyprus University of Technology
Kontolemi Georgia - Librarian - Public Library of Limassol
Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the Limassol Municipality, within the framework of their collaboration for the development of the CUT in the city center, mutually agreed to a memorandum of understanding for the upgrade of the Municipal library with the support of the University Library.
This is the first cooperation between a public and an academic library in Cyprus and it emphasizes the history of the city of Limassol and its relationship with the University.
An advanced academic library and a public library, both with different missions, were summoned to face the challenge of joining forces without either of the two losing their distinct role and character with respect to their core audiences.
The cooperation between the two different libraries establishes a new semiology and a multifunctional role which benefits the participating institutions and adds value to the local community. Through this collaboration
The goal was to upgrade the services offered by the public library but without altering its role as described in IFLA for public libraries «In a society of lifelong learning - whether of a formal or informal nature- public libraries will be nodes connecting the local learning setting with the global resources of information and knowledge. Public libraries must therefore be allowed to play a role of fundamental importance in the development of future systems of lifelong learning».
Such an upgrade would achieve the proper operation of the public library and at the same time would allow it to meet the needs of the city’s academia.
Achieving this, allows community members to come together to research, share, create and organize in order to meet their common goals.
Consequently this upgrade has positively affected the public library on many levels with respect to its premises, its technological and operational advancement. The CUT academic library successfully transferred its knowledge in the entire library’s services.
In this paper, we will describe, «what and how it’s done», the advantages of the cooperation between the two libraries as well as the challenges that arose and the way of overcoming them. We will also refer to the common operation policies that were developed.

Bamnioti Angeliki - Librarian - National Library of Greece (and graduate student at the University of West Attica)
Public (folk) libraries are defined as the public and municipal libraries of the country. Their responsibilities include promoting literacy, educating and entertaining citizens, or organizing various activities. Citizens Service Centers (ΚΕΠ) provide administrative and citizen mediation services with the public administration. This paper examines whether public libraries can undertake and provide citizens with some of the services traditionally offered by the Citizens Service Centers, in order to expand their responsibilities, assist the local community in which they are integrated, enlarge their audience and develop some innovation in the provided services. It is investigated whether both information professionals working in popular libraries and the local community are interested in broadening the role of libraries as an informal “ΚΕΠ”. The used methodology is quantitative analysis, by completing two questionnaires (to information scientists and to the library public), as well as analyzing the views of the concerned public. The exported results confirm that both staff working in public libraries and the local community are interested in providing some services to citizens at the libraries. These are innovative actions for the Greek community that motivate information professionals to train more, as well as the local library, to reorganize the structures, its way to function and the services which are provided.

Petraki Niki - Paper-books conservation - University of Crete - Library
The laboratory of conservation was established in 1999 at the Library, with the support of European programmes. The aim of the laboratory is the survival of rare books and archives. The laboratory uses modern equipment for the conservation, the archival storage of rare books and archival collections, as well as audiovisual material. Moreover it is responsible for repairing newer books of the lending department of the Library. An additional responsibility is the organisation of exhibitions. in accordance with the museological ethics.
The main target of the exhibitions is the exploitation and presentation of rare material for the academic and local communities of Rethymno. The exhibitions run in parallel with major events at the University and book presentations. Of great importance is the collaboration with the postgraduate programme of the Department of History of Art and of the Department of History of the University of Crete, whose professors guide the students who are being trained in every aspect of the organisation of thematic exhibitions. The exhibitions are open to the public.
The services of the laboratory to the local community include guided tours of the laboratory for schools of primary and secondary education from the whole of Greece, guided tours of students and academics of the Erasmus programme, as well as groups of adult visitors of the University of Crete.

Solutions and tools to support Open Science goals and improving accessibility. The presentation will first look at the Greek open access landscape and secondly into the aspects related to accessibility and solutions developed to support Open Science. For example, through evidenced-based data, Elsevier developed Topic pages to improve user workflow and accessibility. This uses machine-learning technology, extracting concepts from validated sources.

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Short break for light lunch in the conference premises

Manias Dimosthenis - Computer Engineer - Library of Hellenic Open University
Bratitsis Tharrenos - Associate Professor - Early Childhood Education Department, of the University of Western Macedonia
The present study examines the identity of the EAP library as it is presented through its online services. The purpose of the paper is to examine how identity is expressed and how it has reached users' consciousness.
The research focuses on studying the text of the web site as a primary mean of communicating the library's organizational identity. This is also confirmed by the tools used for text analysis, which allow both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Analysis is achieved by sorting the words of the text by its frequency, and thus by identifying the important entities for the description of the library. Moreover a keyword tree with the most frequent keyword in the center is created. In order to study the identity of the library a narration model was used. In that model library is treated as a person with characteristics, a history and goals.
From the text analysis it was possible to match the attributes of the library with the attributes of the narration model which is used.
In order to complete the study, semi-structured interviews conducted with a sample of 8 individuals in the first half of 2019. The findings of the survey indicate that users and employees realize only a part of the identity.

Chaleplioglou Artemis - Library Head - Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Katsigianni Pinelopi - Library Head - Eginition Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine
The World Wide Web changed fundamentally the information distribution and dramatically affect the library services. In our days the biomedical librarian has to deliver integrated information services retrieved from a huge pool of heterogeneous biological data, using sophisticated research tools. The full spectrum of biomedical evidence includes documents, images, videos, sequences and interactions, for genes, proteins, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. This work consists of two parts. Firstly, we explored the currently available semantic tools and applications that can be used in biomedical library routine, as well as in biomedical education. Secondly, we performed a survey through self-administered questionnaires of the end users, professors, researchers, medical doctors, residents and students, to explore the degree of knowledge, adoption and implementation of semantic web tools in everyday practice. Finally, we proposed communication tools for the effective promotion of semantic web tools by the biomedical libraries in order to provide high quality information and educational services to the end users.

Kantiotou Aikaterini - Library and Information Center - Panteion University
Kakali Constantia - Director of Library and Information Center of Panteion University
University archives are an important historical source of every educational institution. Finding, preserving, classifying, archiving, digitizing and then presenting archive collections online are key to establishing the identity of universities and researching their history and higher education in general. However, it is only in recent decades in Greece and in other European countries that the importance of their organization by historians and archivists has begun to appear.
Although historians, archivists or librarians have experimented with different approaches to organizing academic archives, there are still issues to be resolved such as: the type and the number of archives documented, the policies of archival collections development as well as the ways in which academic libraries and departments are involved, the Departments of History.
This paper will attempt to present actions and practices for the development of policies for the preservation of active archives of academic institutions, the level of digitization and promotion of archival collections related to the history of institutions, and the role of the academic library in these activities. Undoubtedly the archives of the universities are a valuable and unique treasure that is required to be preserved by both historians and archivists.

Ifigenia Vardakosta - Head Librarian - Harokopio University - Library & Information Centre
The General Athanasios Daskarolis is one of the unsung officers of the Greek Army in whose long military career Asia Minor Campaign is included as well. After his family decision, and through the intervention of a Harokopio’s University Geography Department faculty member, a collection of 15 military maps of this significant Greek history period, were donated to the Library and Information Center. The maps remained in obscurity for a long time till the time that Library was funded from the European Project “Digital Govergence”. Thus, Library had the opportunity to upgrade the Institutional Repository “ESTIA”. In this context and in order to develop the infrastructure for the exploitation of its cartographic material, Library integrated the organization, processing and dissemination of the General’s A. Daskarolis military maps collection with the ultimate aim of preserving this valuable historical material and promoting it under open access to the wide public.
The purpose of this paper is to describe both the collection’s maps and the digitization process used by the Library for their management. Additionally, General’s A. Daskarolis brief biography will be mentioned, while the future actions that should be taken in order to promote more effectively the geographical information derived from these printed documents to the general public, will be highlighted.

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