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As the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) is a staunch supporter of open access publishing (see, e.g., the initiatives within the Access Division at http://www.libereurope.eu/node/141 ), the LIBER Executive Board has decided that LIBER Quarterly should become an entirely open access publication, freely available online to the worldwide research library community, with paid printing-on-demand services to be offered upon completion of each volume (expected in January 2009 for the 2008 volume).In celebration of the implementation of open access, we have prepared a jam-packed second issue of 2008, comprising papers from a variety of LIBER working group conferences: collection security, architecture, map librarianship and the think tank on the book as an artifact. The issue can be accessed at http://liber.library.uu.nl 