A University of Calabar Lecturer, Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui has been appointed as a Member of the European Union Research Initiative - Europeana.

Europeana is an initiative of the European Union, financed by the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility and European Union Member States. Europeana provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage material. Europeana had its beginnings after a letter was jointly sent in April 2005 by Jacques Chirac, President of France, and the premiers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Hungary to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. It urged the creation of a virtual European library in order to make Europe's cultural heritage more accessible to everyone. The letter helped to give added support to work that the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate had already been conducting over the previous ten years, such as the Telematics for Libraries project. It also offered strong political support to the Directorate's strategy (i2010: communication on digital libraries), published in September 2005. This made clear the intention to create and support a European digital library, covering the whole European Union in order to encourage growth of the information society and related media industries.

Aniebiet currently serves as the University Librarian of the University of Calabar. She is an Associate of the University of the West of Scotland's Center for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development, and the University of Glasgow's UK-COP 26 Universities Climate Network. She is also a Fellow of various International Library Associations and Institutions.

https://pro.europeana.eu/person/aniebiet-inyang-ntui