
Society
In dialog with society, we highlight the role of research libraries in the digital transformation of science. With active media work and the presentation of our research activities in public exhibition and dialog formats, we vividly demonstrate the topics we deal with.
Our activities - a selection:
- MS Wissenschaft 2019: exhibition of a geolocalization tool
- Initiation and promotion of the Technik-Salons since 2014
- Digitaler Salon event series (2019 and 2020)
- Regular participation in the November der Wissenschaft in Hannover
- Organization of the cultural hackthon Coding da Vinci Niedersachsen 2020
- Participation in the virtual conversation format „Book a Scientist“ of the Leibniz Association
- Insights into activities and projects with the format Was, wenn, ...?

Politics
TIB's experts are available to politics with their expertise, for example, in the fields of Open Science, Data Science or Artificial Intelligence. With their expert knowledge, they can contribute as advisors to improving political decision-making processes.
Our activities - a selection:
- Leibniz im Bundestag (2019, 2020)
- Leibniz im Landtag (2018, 2019 and 2020)
- Participation in delegations (Deutscher Frühöin in Estonia)
- Participation in ministerial trips (Great Britain, Finland and Estonia)
- Consultation of the Enquete-Kommission KI

Science
TIB hosts numerous international conferences, specialist forums and workshops. There it offers platforms for networking and exchange in science. In addition, TIB employee are present with scientific lectures all over the world to share their acquired knowledge.
Our activities - a selection:
- Publications and Presentations of TIB employees since 2011
- Organization of IATUL 2015, TPDL 2016, S3 2017, DILS2018, the Open-Access-Tage 2019 and of further scientific events
- regular active participation at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and at the SEMANTiCS conference

Business and industry
TIB and the L3S research center combine their wide range of research and technology competencies in the areas of big data analytics, machine learning and semantic data networking that are central to digitization. Various formats are used to sustainably strengthen collaboration between research and industry for successful digitization in the Hannover Region and beyond.
Our activities - a selection:
- Business events
- IDSA competence center
- Projects in the "Innovation & Technology Management" team: MediaFutures, PLATOON, TRUSTS
- Presentations at the joint stand of the State of Lower Saxony at CEBIT and Hannover Messe

Library community
TIB uses its pioneering role in the library community to actively support the digital transformation in the information infrastructure. By initiating and further developing open digital formats, platforms are created on which discourses can be conducted with other social actors.
Our activities - a selection:
- active participation in consortia and alliances, networks and committees
- Offer and disseminate infrastructure services such as DataCite, TIB DOI Konsortium, ORDID DE Konsortium
- Participation in the Community of Practice „Agilität in Bibliotheken"
- Organization of the Open-Access-Tage 2019 and participation in open-access.network
- Initiation of the virtual conference #vBIB with the professional association BIB: #vbib20 and #vbib21

Media and public
Would you like to learn more about open access to knowledge, what open science of the future might look like, or what AI has to do with libraries? Whether new projects and services, research topics explained in an understandable way or interesting cultural events: We provide media representatives, multipliers and interested parties with up-to-date information and help them to understand current developments.
Our activities – a selection:
- Press lunch on the subject of digitisation at the TIB
- current Media releases
- TIB-Experts are happy to provide you with data, facts and background knowledge
- News, blog posts and events from TIB
- TIB-News: Learn about new and interesting things from the TIB in the newsletter
- TIB on Twitter and Instagram