Programme 2022

List of symposium participants (.pdf)

LIBRARIES AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Wednesday, September 14
18.00-19.00 Bus & Boat tour Bus departs at 18.00. Meeting spot in front of Ponton der Reederei City Schifffahrt H. Gabriel
19.30-21.30 Informal get together dinner Restaurant Kartoffel Keller, Koberg 8, 23552 Lübeck
Thursday, September 15
9.00-10.00 Bibliotheca Baltica General Assembly Lübeck City Library
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.30 Opening Session
⚬ Monika Frank, Senator for Culture and Education of Lübeck
⚬ Gerald Schleiwies, Director of the Lübeck City Library
⚬ Robert Zepf, President of Bibliotheca Baltica

Keynote
⚬ Karin Grönvall, Director of the National Library of Sweden, “What Are You Saying? Is Google Dangerous?” Strategies for Handling the Democratic Library-Mission in a Digital Time

30th Anniversary of Bibliotheca Baltica
⚬ Andris Vilks, Bibliotheca Baltica president 2004-2008, Director of the National Library of Latvia, Historical Perspective on Bibliotheca Baltica
⚬ Robert Schweitzer, Bibliotheca Baltica secretary 1992-2008, How Bibliotheca Baltica Began
⚬ Robert Zepf, Bibliotheca Baltica president, Director of the Hamburg State and University Library, Bibliotheca Baltica in Overview

Lübeck City Library (Scharbausaal)
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.00 Panel 1 – E-libraries
⚬ Giedre Čistoviene, Head of project management department of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Innovative Digital Project (e-Culture) in Lithuanian Libraries
⚬ Kristina Pai, Director of the Tartu City Library, Libraries as a Lifebelt for e-Estonia
⚬ Karīna Bandere, Director of Digital Development Department, National Library of Latvia, From Farmsteads to Shared Responsibility in Digital Space: Paths of Culture Heritage Institutions of Latvia
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Panel 2 – Cultural Heritage
⚬ Maria Virtanen, NLF & Digime Project, Collaboration as a Best Practice in Digital Age – Shared Efforts of Finnish Libraries, Archives and Museums
⚬ Ayub Khan, CILIP President, Makerspaces – Spaces, Technology and People
⚬ Olaf Eigenbrodt, Hamburg State and University Library, Libraries as Urban Knowledge Hubs
18.00-19.00 Reception Lübeck Town Hall
19.00-21.00 Dinner Restaurant Schiffergesellschaft (Hamburg-Lübeck-Room), Breite Strasse 2, 23552 Lübeck

 

Friday, 16 September
9.00-10.30 Panel 3 – Academic Libraries
⚬ Jamie Johnston, Researcher in Library Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Public Librarians’ Perception of Their Professional Role and the Library’s Role in Supporting the Public Sphere: Key Findings From a Multi-Country Comparison
⚬ Michael Svendsen, Copenhagen University Library, The Royal Danish Library, Role of Modern Academic Library in Open Science
⚬ Christophe Didier, Delegate for Scientific Policy and International Relations, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire Strasbourg, Western Perspectives about Eastern Democratic Fights: What’s Going on in French Libraries – for a Better Global Knowledge
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Panel 4 – Digital transformation
⚬ Prof. Bernd-Schmid Ruhe, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
⚬ Julia Konopka-Żołnierczuk, Deputy Director of the National Library of Poland, Digital Change in the National Library as the Central Library of the State
12.00-13.00 Discussion – Ukrainian libraries in times of war
Input talk: Gudrun Wirtz, Bavarian State Library, East European Collections, “SUCHO – Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online”
⚬ Svitlana Moiseeva, Vice President of the Ukrainian Libraries Association, Director of Luhansk Region Scientific Universal Library
⚬ additional speakers from Ukraine (TBA)
13.00-13.30 Closing remarks
Invitation for the next symposium
Saturday, September 17
16.00-23.00 Lübeck City Library 400th anniversary celebrations

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