{"id":6966,"date":"2023-01-30T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:46:28","slug":"opening-of-the-new-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2023\/01\/opening-of-the-new-reading-room\/","title":{"rendered":"A new home for the EMBL Szil\u00e1rd Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many changes and some constants for the library in 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the Szil\u00e1rd library, this year marked its first as part of OSIM. Library staff are now more oriented to users, collections, and services, but still support open science administration. After many decades, the Library Committee reformed into a Library User group, in which students (PhDs, postdocs, EICAT) and a representative from EMBL Barcelona joined, after Toby Gibson retired as Chair after a good quarter of a century in this position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand and the scope of the collection has been changing. Following the new scope of EMBL research and policies, the library has introduced several new special sub-collections that address open science, the environment, and equality, diversity, and inclusion issues. Also, we are about to expand on the newly formed Director General- and alumni-related collections with exciting titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Szil\u00e1rd Library moves to the ATC<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This year, we mostly focused on organising the library\u2019s move. This complex project also allowed us to implement new library system features, renew the technology facilities, and re-design the reading room according to users\u2019 needs. The new reading room, located in the former Executive Suite B-helix rooftop, is bright with natural light, amazing views, and access to the balcony. The library has twelve working places, plus a small lounge area with popular magazines and daily newspapers. The new reception desk is set up for librarians to welcome and support users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, from 8-16 December, librarians organised a series of events to celebrate the official reopening of the Szil\u00e1rd Library and its inauguration. The central celebration took place on 8. December, including Director General Edith Heard, Chief Operating Officer Matti Tirakari, the Director of EMBL Heidelberg Peer Bork, and EMBL\u2019s first librarian, Mary Holmes. Holmes cut the ribbon and officially opened the new reading room (see the picture gallery from the opening ceremony below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The librarians welcomed guests over the next few days with homemade treats and they exhibited EMBL\u2019s newest book arrivals in a special  Book Christmas Advent Calendar Our special book flea market for the occasion involving many deaccessioned or donated books raised 1119,38 Euros that will be donated to the Kinderklinik library at the University Hospital Heidelberg. The ceremonies concluded with a small exhibition on \u201cThe Past and Future Treasures of the Szil\u00e1rd Library\u201d, which included fantastic library artefacts from the time since the opening in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThings have changed so much that it\u2019s just unbelievable\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThings have changed so much that it\u2019s just unbelievable\u201d, Mary Holmes said already in 2019 on the occasion of the library\u00b4s 40th birthday. But, in spite of the unbelievable changes in the library, as described by Mary Holmes, there are a few things that have not changed (according to many library user surveys). These are the need for more working spaces in the reading room and the very kind and helpful librarians!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edith Heard giving the opening speech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bastian Drees crediting EMBL staff that helped the set up of the new reading room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mary Holmes cutting the ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mary Holmes checking out the book for Edith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The book flea market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 8 December 2022, inauguration of the new reading room in ATC took place. The opening was followed by several events to celebrate the official reopening of the Szil\u00e1rd Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7446,7448],"tags":[8027],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-library","category-reading-room","tag-announcements"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}