Barbara Szczepańska

Mail: barbara.szczepanska@ebib.pl

Professional background: Barbara is a librarian and information specialist. After graduation, she worked in the information department of the academic library, than after a few years she moved to the law firm sector, with which she is still working today, currently as a Research Services Manager at Hogan Lovells.

She also developed her interest in copyright by broadening her knowledge on postgraduate studies and in action.

Barbara is an experienced conference lecturer, trainer and an author of publications on Copyright, Open Access and Access to Information Law. During her career she has been a member of several professional organizations, serving as the copyright advocacy and policy advisor.

From the 1999 to 2015 she was as an editor of Bulletin EBIB http://open.ebib.pl/ojs/ an open access journal and Electronic Library http://www.ebib.pl/ service for Polish librarians.

Membership:

2010- Member of Polish Librarians Association
2010- Member of EBIB Association – Copyright Adviser
2012-2018 –Poznan Foundation of Scientific Libraries – Copyright Adviser
2012-2018 – EIFL, Copyright Programme coordinator for Poland
2013- Polish Academic Libraries Board of Directors – Copyright Adviser
2011-2018 EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) – Country IP coordinator and Program Advisor
2005- EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation) – Member of the Information Law Group
2014- LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) – Copyright Working Group Member
Warsaw University Institute of European Studies –Advisory Board Member
University Law Faculty Libraries. Member of Managers Activity Group
Polish Committee for UNESCO „Information for all” – Member

Selected publications and activities:

2012-2015 – Polish Copyright Reform – project supported by the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme, Barbara Szczepanska, Project Manager
2011-2014 –Advocating for a Library Treaty at WIPO – member of librarians’ team on behalf of EIFL (SCCR22, SCCR 23, SCCR27 + speaker at the side event “Information Without Borders: a global library and archive ecosystem”, SCCR29, SCCR30)
2004 – Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences – Digital is not different’ – copyright in digital environment (in English)
2007 – Legal aspects of publishing in Open Access (in Polish)
2010 – the National Library – Legal seminar for digital librarians, paper on Digital Libraries in the European Copyright Discussions (in Polish)
2012 – C4C Event for European Policymakers with Libraries, Consumers at the Library of the European Parliament, Brussels (presentation on Draft Treaty Proposal)
2013 – Booksprint – Legal issues in academic publishing (in Polish)
2014 – Legal aspects of digitisation and making available online of museum collections
2015 – webinar on changes to the Copyright Law (in Polish)
2015 – EIFL webinar: Copyright reform in Poland – what do the changes mean for libraries (in English)
2016 – The EIFL Core Library Exceptions Checklist
2016 – Guidelines on new Copyright Law (in Polish)