Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and the National Library of Luxembourg
The Memorandum was signed by Professor Burkhard Hess, Director of the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg (MPI), and Monique Kieffer, Director of the National Library of Luxembourg (BnL), in presence of Juja Chakarova, Head of MPI Library, and Juliane Schulze, Officer of the Consortium's section of the BnL, sealing a cooperation between the two organizations in order to integrate the MPI within the infrastructure of the Consortium Luxembourg for the acquisition and the management of electronic resources, managed by the National Library.
The purpose of the Consortium is the acquisition and the management of electronic resources accessible via the www.a-z.lu web engine. It is managed and coordinated by the National Library which also negotiates the license contracts with the providers and the publishers. The Consortium includes the BnL, the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). At the moment, more than 53.000 titles of electronic journals, 99.000 scientific e-books and 370 databases are accessible, most of them remotely, by the users of the Consortium members' institutes.
MPI has already established a close cooperation with the law faculty of the University of Luxembourg in research and also in teaching and with the BnL in library matters. MPI membership to the Consortium Luxembourg will further enhance the cooperation between the libraries of the member institutions to the benefit of their patrons. The MPI library subscribes to 40 online legal databases containing more than 24,000 electronic journals to facilitate the research of the Institute. It is also open to researchers from Luxembourg and visiting guests.
