SLSP
The Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) is a service provider for libraries and collaborates with them to run the national library platform swisscovery, which pools scientific information from currently 500 libraries in Switzerland and makes it easily accessible and simple to find. On behalf of the libraries, SLSP invoices the users of swisscovery for chargeable library services.
Our Mission
SLSP will catalyse the transformation of the library system into a simple, reliable, and sustainable way to access information. To this end, we promote innovation, design future-orientated solutions in collaboration with our partners and set priorities that serve the entire community.
We are service-orientated, think collaboratively, and integrate a diverse array of perspectives with the aim of creating sustainable and effective information infrastructures in the long term.
Our Vision
By 2030, SLSP will be the platform for academic information, both physical and digital, in Switzerland – consistently user-orientated, data- and AI-driven, interoperable and open, in the spirit of open science.
Strategy, Organisation and History
Strategy
The Swiss Library Service Platform’s strategy for 2026 to 2029 focuses on creating reliable, open and future-proof digital knowledge spaces in Switzerland.
Organisation
Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) Ltd, based in Zurich and with a French-speaking office in Lausanne, embodies innovation and quality in information management.
History
The SLSP was launched in 2015 as a project by 15 libraries with the motto ” From libraries for libraries”.
Our Team
During the development of SLSP and swisscovery, employees from various libraries supported the SLSP project team. Today, 50 employees work at the SLSP office.
Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries
The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries obtains licenses for scientific resources (electronic journals, eBooks and databases). It offers a broad range of services and supports the efforts to establish a national open access strategy. It therefore plays an instrumental role in guaranteeing the quality and competitiveness of Switzerland as a university and research hub. The office of the consortium is managed by SLSP.
Our shareholder institutions
The shareholder institutions of SLSP are made up as follows:
Our Board of Administrators
The company’s Board of Administrators consists of a maximum of eight members, of whom exactly six come from the shareholder institutions. It is composed as follows:
Jean-Frédéric Jauslin – Chairman
Ulrich Weidmann – Vice-Chairman (ETH Zurich)
Marie Fuselier (University of Geneva)
Adèle Thorens-Goumaz
Arno Arpagaus (University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons)
Markus Brönnimann (University of Bern)
François Seppey (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Zurich)
Our Library Council
The Library Council is the highest participatory body of SLSP, established by the Board of Directors. It supports the management in technical matters and ensures that the interests of different types of libraries are taken into account in the development of projects, services, rules, and standards. The types of libraries include university libraries, libraries of universities of applied sciences, libraries of teacher training colleges, and other scientific or heritage libraries.
A member of SLSP’s executive management team, usually the director, chairs the Library Council. The Chair of the Library Council acts as the actuary.
It is composed as follows:
As representatives of university libraries:
Sonia Abun-Nasr (UNIBE)
Angélique Boschung (BCUFR)
Markus Joachim (ETHZ)
Rudolf Mumenthaler (UZH)
Frédéric Walther (UNIGE)
As representatives of universities of applied sciences:
Michela Sabattini Riccardi (SUPSI)
Béatrice Keller (OST)
Brigitte Schubnell (FHNW)
Representative of teacher training colleges:
Barbara Aebi (PHZH)
Representative of other libraries:
Christian Koller (Swiss Social Archives)
Representative of SLSP:
Andreas Kirstein
swisscovery-libraries
Around 500 libraries are currently connected to SLSP’s national library platform swisscovery.
Jobs
We build on a strong team. To this end, we advertise our job vacancies as required. If jobs are currently advertised, you can find them here.