| Programme Overview
  	
	      	
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        	          	| 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 |  |  
        	
    	      	
    	        	
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        	          	| 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        	    
        	 
        	
    	      	
    	        	
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        	          	| 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 |  |  |