CHARM-EU: first international meeting of librarians
On September 24 and 25, a delegation from the University of Montpellier attended a meeting at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, in a meeting of all members of the CHARM-EU European university alliance's network of library services. This was a first.
When librarians from the CHARM-EU alliance meet atEötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary), the result is a working meeting rich in exchanges and projects, in which a UM delegation led by Sandrine Gropp, director of the joint documentation service, participated. The two-day program, organized in the form of collaborative workshops, engaged participants in three major challenges directly affecting students in the joint master's program Global Challenges for Sustainable Development: training in the ethical use of AI; optimal access to documentary resources; and better integration into student communities and universities where they are studying abroad.
These shared experiences have made it possible to develop avenues for collaboration between teachers and librarians. These include information literacy skills, the use of open-access resources in an open science context applied to teaching, and the mobilization of projects on ecological transition and sustainable development (TEDS) within the alliance's libraries.
A photo exhibition
For this first exchange, which opened up prospects for future collaboration, a collective photo exhibition showcased the diversity of the European alliance's libraries, as well as their commonalities and shared values. The librarians in attendance also enjoyed a tour of the Eötvös Loránd University library and its historical collections, as well as the newly created collaborative space dedicated to international students.
