Programme

The 16th International Bibliotheca Baltica Symposium “Past, Present and Future of the Shared Cultural Heritage in the Baltic Sea Region”
Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland, 17-18 October 2024

Thursday, 17 October
9.00-9.30 Registration Biblioteka Narodowa
9.30-10.30 Session 1: Chair: Julia Konopka-Żołnierczuk (National Library of Poland)
⚬ Welcome to the National Library of Poland. Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library of Poland
⚬ Welcome to the Bibliotheca Baltica Symposium. Liisa Savolainen, President of Bibliotheca Baltica
Keynote 1:
Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library of Poland, The National Library as a service for libraries in Poland
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break, Sponsored by Lexicon Anna Wolińska
11.00-12.30 Session 2: Chair: Robert Zepf (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg)
Mariola Antczak and Dr. Zbigniew Gruszka, (University of Łódź) How libraries can build social resilience in the event of war: Research on the activities of Polish libraries aimed at refugees following the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ingrida Veliutė, (National Library of Lithuania) Beyond the Libraries: Shared Knowledge in New Technologies for Cultural Heritage Preservation
Sven Instinske, (Bücherhallen Hamburg) Strategies for relevance – lessons learned by the public libraries of Hamburg
Elena Sipria-Mironov, (University of Tartu Library) Lightning talk: Introduction to EODOPEN project
Mariia Sakharova, (Ukranian Library Association) Ukrainian libraries in time of war and social challenges
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.15 Keynote 2
Rodolphe Baudin, (Sorbonne Université) Russian Studies in France two years after the Russian Full-scale invasion and War against Ukraine
14.15-16.15 Session 3: Chair: Jürgen Warmbrunn (Herder Institut Forschungsbibliothek)
Jolanta Budriūnienė, (National Library of Lithuania) Cultural heritage as a formative element of national identity: a look at memory institutions Lithuania
Olga Topol, (British Library) From Exile to Empowerment: Libraries, Publishing, and the Polish Diaspora in London
Baiba Īvāne, (Regional Library of Salaspils) Librarian as a service provider in a complex ethnic environment. Is the library an apolitical space?
16.15-16.30 Refreshments
16.30-17.30 General Assembly
19.30-21.00 Dinner Palace of the Commonwealth (Pałac Krasińskich), pl. Krasińskich 3/5

 

Friday, 18 October
9.00-10.30 Session 4: Chair: Christophe Didier (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg)
Keynote 3:
Jaakko Tahkokallio, (National Library of Finland) Complex data work on complex cultural heritage. BOMPAC project and the Stockholm-Helsinki collection of Latin manuscript fragments
Nicole Eichenberger and Magdalena Luniak (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) The Handschriftenportal (Manuscript portal)
10.30-12.00 Coffee and Round Tables 1-3 with the Wrap-Up
⚬ Redesigning Libraries for Diverse Communities: Services and Spaces, Moderator: Viktorija Piščikova (National Library of Latvia)
⚬ Cross-Border Co-operation and Transnational Collections, Moderator: Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen (National Library of Finland)
⚬ Library’s Role in Supporting the Cultural Identity and Heritage, Moderator: Liisa Savolainen (National Library of Finland)
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
13.00-15.00 Session 5: Chair: Karin Grönvall (National Library of Sweden)
Gudrun Wirtz, (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) Activities of the Bavarian State Library/Subject Information Service Eastern Europe (FiD-Ost) in support of Ukraine and research on Ukraine
Maria Berggren (Uppsala University Library) and Rafał Wójcik, (Poznań University Library) Poznań and Uppsala: The Story of a Joint Venture Sweden / Poland
Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen, (National Library of Finland) Is there any shared Cultural Heritage across the Baltic Sea? Case Study: Digitization Project of Swedish Era Literature
Olaf Hamann, (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) The Times They Are Changing – New Developments in Special Information Services for Slavic Studies in Germany
15.00 Closing Words and Refreshments

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