Programme Overview

Monday, April 8, 2024

Time Event (+)
11:00 - 13:00 EBLIDA Executive Committee Meeting (Internal Meeting) - Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President  
11:00 - 13:00 NAPLE e-book Working Group  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:30 EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting (for EBLIDA Members only) - Ton Van Vlimmeren  
16:10 - 16:30 Photo Session - Council Members, Incoming and Outgoing EBLIDA Executive Committee Members  
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 18:00 EBLIDA Executive Committee Meeting – with newly elected members  
17:30 - 18:30 NAPLE General Assembly (for NAPLE Members only)  
19:30 - 22:45 Council Dinner at "Solar dos Presuntos" Restaurant  

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:15 EBLIDA conference "Charting the future of libraries" - Welcome - Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President and Bruno Eiras, Ministery of Culture, Portugal  
09:15 - 09:45 Keynote: Future(s) of Libraries and Librarianship - Rolf Hapel, University of Washington Information School, USA  
09:45 - 10:15 Keynote Reflection - A conversation with the incoming President Erna Winters, Netherlands  
10:15 - 10:50 Plenary Session - Panel Discussion: What comes first: future libraries or future librarians? - Jannie van Vugt, Association Public Libraries: Educational platform for Dutch Library Network, Netherlands. Andrew Cranfield, Director, Helsingør Municipality Libraries, Denmark. Daniel Gonçalves, Librarian, Teresa and Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library, Nova School of Business & Economics, Lisbon, Portugal. Chair: Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President  
10:50 - 11:00 Q&A  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:45 Workshops  
11:30 - 12:45 Workshop 1: Librarians’ skills: universal and specific, rather than core and additional - Nicole Krüger, ZHAW University Library, Switzerland and Rapporteur: Alicia Sellés Carot, Federación Española de Sociedades de Archivística, Biblioteconomía, Documentación y Museística - FESABID, Spain  
11:30 - 12:45 Workshop 2: Matching the offer and the demand of librarians - Lucia Werder, Director, Bremen Public Library, Germany and and Nora Neuhaus de Laurel, HR Officer, Bremen Public Library, Germany  
11:30 - 12:45 Workshop 3: The knowledge gap, the generation gap - Chair: Marina Encheva, NEDLIB project / Bulgarian Library and Information Association – BLIA, and University of Library Studies and Information Technologies – ULSIT, Bulgaria and Gabriela Angelova, National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius", and University of Library Studies and Information Technologies – ULSIT, Bulgaria. Rapporteur: Spaska Tarandova, Global Libraries Foundation, Bulgaria  
12:45 - 13:00 Group Photo  
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch  
13:00 - 14:15 Escape Room (by OCLC) - (During Lunch)  
14:15 - 15:15 Plenary Session: Digital literacy for digital libraries - Chair: Mairead Owens, City Library of Dublin, Ireland  
14:15 - 14:35 Plenary Session (1): What skills do library staff need in the digital age? - Eloy Rodrigues, Director of University Libraries at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal  
14:35 - 14:55 Plenary Session (2):What the Council of Europe Recommendation on Library Legislation and Policy says in terms of digital technologies and AI: Implications for library staff - Mikkel Christoffersen, EBLIDA Director  
14:55 - 15:15 Plenary Session (3):What is digital literacy? A matter of indicators and a vision for the future - Jasenka Pleško, President of the Croatian Library Association and Dunja Marija Gabriel, National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia  
15:15 - 15:25 Discussion and Q&A  
15:25 - 15:55 Coffee break  
15:55 - 17:05 Workshops  
15:55 - 17:05 Workshop 4: Charting the future: a challenge for library Directors - Chair: Marie Østergaard, Director, Public Libraries of Aarhus and DOKK 1, Denmark Rapporteur: Rauha Maarno, Accessibility Library Celia, Finland  
15:55 - 17:05 Workshop 5: AI: strengths and opportunities for libraries, librarians, and users - Teresa Pombo, Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal  
15:55 - 17:05 Workshop 6: Recruiting practices of Libraries - Introduction: Lucia Werder, Director, Bremen Public Library, Germany and and Nora Neuhaus de Laurel, HR Officer, Bremen Public Library, Germany Chair: Lucia Werder  
15:55 - 17:05 Escape Room (by OCLC)  
17:05 - 17:20 Workshop wrap ups and Q&A - Hella Klauser, Bibliothek & Information Deutschland – BID, Germany  
17:20 - 17:30 Conclusions – Incoming President Erna Winters, Netherlands  
19:30 - 22:45 Conference Dinner (TBA)  

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 16:00 EBLIDA-NAPLE-PL2030 Event  
09:30 - 10:30 The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) process  
10:30 - 11:00 Joint communications from the European library organisations for the EU elections in June 2024  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 16:00 RL:EU (Resourcing Libraries: connecting libraries to EU resources) Conference - Theme: Digital upskilling for Libraries in Europe  
  
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