¹ The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) hosts a Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group which aims to bring together those librarians working within the LIBER network with an interest in digital humanities and new uses of digital collections.

² Although the LIBER survey has been conducted by the Working Group on digital humanities, its starting point was the use of digital collections for research and not necessarily focused on humanities. The activities used within the survey also focus on digital research (TaDiRAH – Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (Borek et al., 2016)) as a whole. This article therefore references both surveys on digital humanities and digital scholarship.

³ Library associations from other parts of the world such as Mexico, South America, South Africa and India were contacted in order to obtain more similar surveys. Unfortunately, no other data was found.

⁴ For the LIBER data all libraries from the UK and Ireland have been excluded to prevent overlap with the RLUK and CONUL surveys.

⁵ This graph does not include the figures from Hong Kong as they are not specified for all answer options in the article. For the LIBER data all libraries from the UK and Ireland have been excluded to prevent overlap with the RLUK and CONUL surveys.

⁶ Given that 71% of the European respondents were from Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), this result reflects mostly that of the Western European situation.

⁷ Only completed survey results are used in this research and in the report by Wilms et al. (2019).