Watch the 19 February 2026 webinar recording
When?
- Date: 19 February 2026
- Time: 11:00 CET
What?
Knowledge Rights 21 is proud to present its latest publication: “Safeguard Access, Empower Europe – An Action Plan to Let Libraries be Libraries.” This webinar serves as the official launch of our 9-point Action Plan, a comprehensive guide for lawmakers and advocates to ensure libraries can continue to safeguard, enable, and empower in the 21st century.
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The Webinar
Libraries are essential to safeguarding heritage, enabling access to knowledge, and supporting creativity and research. But recognition of these missions is not enough. To deliver on them, libraries need legal frameworks that actively empower their work.
What we will cover:
- The 9-Point Action Plan: A deep dive into the essential legal guarantees libraries need today.
- Evidence-based advocacy: Insights from independent research and European library experiences.
- From theory to practice: A toolkit for librarians to assess and improve their national legal landscape
Why You Should Attend
As libraries increasingly operate in digital environments, the law must provide the same possibilities online as offline. Without this, libraries risk being limited by market rules rather than guided by the public interest.
Join us to discuss how we can step up efforts to protect the future of shared knowledge across Europe.
Speakers
- Beatrice Murch – Programme Manager, Internet Archive Europe
- Mina Charalambous – Secretary of Foreign Relations, Cyprus Library Association
- Anna Tuomikoski – Information Specialist, National Library of Finland, National eLibrary
- Cathal McCauley – University Librarian, Maynooth University
- Deborah De Angelis – Attorney-at-Law, KR21 National Coordinator for Italy
- Moderator: Stephen Wyber – KR21 Programme Lead, IFLA
5 February 2026
