VALUE CO-CREATION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR A NEW GENERATION OF EUROPEAN LIBRARIES

Project Information

LibrarIN

Grant agreement ID: 101061516

DOI

10.3030/101061516

Project closed

EC signature date 2 June 2022

Start date 1 November 2022

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 992 375,00

EU contribution

€ 2 992 375,00

Coordinated by

ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Social entrepreneurship, public-private networks & social innovation v1.0

First release of this report will review the existing literature and the case selection criteria.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

AI Experimentation Policy for Libraries: Balancing Innovation and Data Privacy

Author(s): Varun Gupta
Published in: Public Library Quarterly, 2025, ISSN 0161-6846
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2024.2445356

Beyond the reverse product cycle: An exploration of the digital, social and spatial transformation of libraries

Author(s): Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj, Nassim Gallouj
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 54, 2025, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESPOL.2025.105297

Innovation in libraries: A service-oriented perspective

Author(s): Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 54, 2024, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESPOL.2024.105110

Filter bubbles as a vector of tradition? Decoding opinion dynamics with agent-based modelling

Author(s): Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj
Published in: Journal of Computational Social Science, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2432-2717
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S42001-025-00422-7

Wertschöpfung und soziale Innovation für eine neue Generation von Bibliotheken in der EU

Author(s): Mergel, Ines
Published in: Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 2023, ISSN 1865-7648
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/bfp-2023-0018

Public Libraries as Social Innovators

Author(s): Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj
Published in: Public Library Quarterly, Issue 44, 2024, ISSN 0161-6846
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2024.2357399

Digitally-induced change in the public sector: a systematic review and research agenda

Author(s): Haug, Nathalie; Dan, Sorin; Mergel, Ines
Published in: Public Management Review, 2023, ISSN 1471-9037
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2234917

Book chapters (15)

Exploring Computational Descriptions for Metadata Creation for E-Books at the Library of Congress, United States of America

Author(s): Anna-Lea Schumann, Justus Kühler, Ines Mergel
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_13

Innovating Libraries: The LibrarIN Toolkit for Policy and Practice

Author(s): Marieke Willems, Marta Anducas, Elena Silvestrini
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_15

AI for Access: Strategic Innovation at the Dutch National Library

Author(s): Barbara van der Vaart, Carsten Schmidt
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_8

AI-Supported Automated Subject Indexing and Metadata Management with Annif and Finto AI at the National Library of Finland

Author(s): Anna-Lea Schumann, Ines Mergel
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_4

Implementing AI in the National Library of Spain: The ETSO Project and Stylometric Analysis of Golden Age Theatre

Author(s): Alberto Peralta
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_11

Automated Subject Cataloguing at the German National Library

Author(s): Ines Mergel, Justus Kühler, Anna-Lea Schumann, Corinna Nitsch
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_3

From Data to AI-Based Discovery: The Maken Project at the National Library of Norway

Author(s): Ada Scupola
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_6

Recommendations for the AI Implementation in Libraries

Author(s): Ines Mergel, Justus Kühler, Anna-Lea Schumann, Carsten Schmidt
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_14

Assessing Nineteenth-Century Library Collections with the “Living with Machines” Project at the British Library, United Kingdom

Author(s): Justus Kühler, Ines Mergel
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_12

From Metadata to Meaning: Applying AI in the National Library of Estonia

Author(s): Carsten Schmidt
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_10

Applying AI to Increase Cultural Accessibility: The Postcard Project at the Royal Danish Library

Author(s): Ada Scupola
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_2

How to Make Millions of Documents Accessible Through AI and a Digital Library? The Case of Gallica, French National Library

Author(s): Antoine Henry
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_9

Visual Discovery Through AI: Unlocking the Postcard Archive at the National Library of Sweden

Author(s): Ada Scupola
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_5

The Retrocatalography Project: Combining AI with the Microsoft Power Platform at the Royal National Library of Belgium

Author(s): Anna-Lea Schumann, Ines Mergel
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_7

Studying the Co-production of AI Implementation in National Public Libraries

Author(s): Ines Mergel
Published in: AI Innovations in Public Services, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6_1

Conference proceedings (6)

 Co-creating sustainable solutions for Future-proof Societies

Author(s): Suominen, A., Hyytinen, K., & Tuori, H.
Published in: RESER Conference, 2025, 2025
Publisher: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
DOI: 10.32040/2025.978-951-38-8843-5

Innovation and value co-creation for a new generation of libraries

Author(s): Luis Rubalcaba
Published in: LibrarIN Internacional Conference. Book of abstracts, 2025
Publisher: Fundacion de la Universidad de Alcala

Digital Transformation of National Library Services with AI, extended abstract

Author(s): Mergel, I., Schumann, A.L., Kühler, J., Schmidt, C., Henry, A., Scupola, Peralta, A., Van der Vaart, B.
Published in: RESER Conference 2024, 2024
Publisher: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
DOI: 10.32040/2025.978-951-38-8843-5

Innovation and value co-creation for a new generation of libraries

Author(s): Luis Rubalcaba
Published in: LibrarIN International Conference. Book of abstracts, 2025, ISBN 978-84-19049-20-9
Publisher: Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá

The LibrarIN Toolkit: Driving Collaboration Beyond Library Borders

Author(s): Anducas, M.
Published in: IFLA Annual Conference, Astana, Kazachstan, 2025
Publisher: IFLA

Networking Power Session

Author(s): Triantafillou, A., Willems, M
Published in: LIBER 2025 Annual Conference, 2025
Publisher: LIBER

Other (2)

La place de l’IA dans les bibliothèques : état des lieux des bibliothèques nationales en Europe

Author(s): Henry, A.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: InterCDI

Social innovations in public libraries : a keystone of knowledge societies

Author(s): Desmarchelier B., Djellal F., Gallouj F
Published in: 2025
Publisher: World Library

Monographic books (1)

AI Innovations in Public Services

Published in: 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-01344-6