9.00: Internal EBLIDA Executive Committee Meeting - preparing the Annual Council Meeting
Seminar Room (1.floor)
30th EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting
13.30 - 14.00 and 17.00 - 17.30 Registration desk open: Entrance area of the Goethe-Institut (Please pick up your badge which will also indicate whether you will join for dinner on 14th and/or 15th.)
Meeting point: Goethe Goethe-Institut Time: 19.30 (Please be on time, coach leaves at 19:30)
EBLIDA Conference
Watch the recording of the 1st Day!
“Ready to take off: Libraries’ commitment towards a sustainable, democratic and equitable society”
Conference Room
8.30Registration desk open: Entrance area of the Goethe-Institut (please pick up your badge which will also indicate whether you will join for dinner on the 15th.)
Keynote speech, Angelos Syrigos, Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
Welcome byTonia Arahova, President of the General Council for Libraries, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affaires
Session 1: Library commitment towards the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development[9.35-12.30] Chair: Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President
EBLIDA has a long-lasting commitment towards the attainment of the Agenda 2030 on sustainable development. EBLIDA’s approach is a) European; b) project-oriented; c) funding opportunities builder.
9.50-10.00: Latest developments in European Structural and Investment Funds (Niki Dandolou, Special Secretary for ESF Programmes at Ministry of Development and Investments, Greece)
What are the current developments of the European Structural and Investment Funds 2021-2027? Niki Dandlou will put emphasis on current priorities and how libraries can fit the ESIF scheme. She will also provide a state of the art description of ESIF at European level and in Greece.
Veronica Ceruti, Director Library system, city of Bologna, Italy, will outline the ambitious project set up by the city of Bologna and how the generous funding provided by ESIF has been determinant to achieve the SDGs Bologna is pursuing.
Guillaume Gast, Head Médiathèque Nord, Strasbourg, France, will outline the small, but well-targeted project of the city of Montreuil, where relapse into illiteracy as an SDG was fought with funding provided by ESIF.
Spaska Tarandova, Director Global Libraries Foundation, Bulgaria, will outline the integration of heritage libraries into the Danube Cultural Routes, explaining how cultural heritage can pursue SDGs through funding provided by ESIF.
10.20-10.30: Q&A
10.30-11.00: Creating connections around a cup of coffee
(Greek librarians connect in thee Conference room around the issue “Greek public libraries and 2030 Agenda on sustainable development: how could Greek public libraries benefit from it”)
Three Workshops [11:00-12.30]
Workshop 1. Room: Conference room Sustainable development and public libraries (Moderator: Andrew Cranfield, Library Director, Municipality of Toender, Southern Denmark)
The aim of the workshop is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to gather data describing the diversified framework of SDG applications in libraries. Apart from SDG 4, the 2nd European report clearly illustrates that all SDGs can be implemented. The other aim is to examine whether a policy, or different policies, can be detected which aim to assist libraries in attaining SDGs.
Workshop 2. Room: Seminar room Sustainable development and university libraries (Moderator: Giannis Tsakonas, Director, University Library Patras, Greece)
Are SDGs an exclusively public library business? It does not look so. Apart from giving voice to university libraries actively pursuing SDGs, the aim of this workshop is to demonstrate that SDGs are fully implemented in university libraries and several policies can be actively set up, depending on the relation that university libraries have with their own territory.
Workshop 3: Room: Foyer/Library Sustainable development and fundraising (Moderator: Eléonore Clavreul, International relation, Bibliothèque publique d’information, Paris, France)
Background to the Workshop: The Think The Unthinkable experience in Italy (Anna Bernabè, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche / Italian Library Association (Italy)
Chair: Zélia Parreira, Director, Public Library of Évora, PhD Full Member of CIDEHUS-UE (Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies, University of Evora) Portugal
The Chair will introduce the draft Council of Europe / EBLIDA Guidelines on Library Legislation and Policy in Europe and their five headlines. The session, however, is not about the text of the Guidelines, which will be distributed as background paper to the Conference. It is about living library legislation and how a normative approach can impact on the soundness of the liìbrary system of a country.
There are countries having a library legislation and countries where libraries are not regulated by legislation, but by policy acts (in Germany, for instance, three regional states out of 16). The governance of a library system is, or may be, the result of a savvy combination of legislation and policy.
14.10-14.20: Recent examples of library legislation in Europe: first case study - Oslo public library, Deichman [Video Presentation] (Knut Skansen, Library Director, Deichman, Norway)
Norway first introduced the concept of libraries as an “independent meeting place and arena for public discussion and debate” (Norwegian Library Act, 2013), which has been determinant to assign new responsibilities to libraries, especially in Nordic countries. Can the Norwegian library act be considered a model for Europe?
Romania is an example of country going from library policy to library legislation. This transformation has provided momentum for the development of the Romanian library system.
14.30-14.40: The status of Council of Europe Guidelines [Video Presentation] (Kathrin Merkle, Head of Culture and Cultural Heritage Division, Directorate General of Democracy, Council of Europe, France) and Jovana Poznan, Council of Europe - Directorate-General for Democracy (DGII), Project Officer at the Culture and Cultural Heritage Division
What is a Council of Europe Guideline (any Guideline)? What does it mean for the Council of Europe and the civil society? And what is its status in relation to other Council of Europe instruments? Kathrin Merkle will expand upon the process Council of Europe Guidelines have to go through, from their cradle (interrelation with the civil society, ministerial relevance) to the maturity of the CDCPP or Committee of Ministers approval.
14.40-15.00: Q&A
15.00-15.30: Creating connections around a cup of coffee
Session 3: Library commitment towards an equitable society
[15.30-16.30]
Room: Conference room
Chair: Andrew Cranfield, Library Director, Municipality of Toender, Southern Denmark
The Chair will introduce the EBLIDA First European Report on E-lending in Public Libraries, the other background document to the EBLIDA Conference. This session, however, is not about the EBLIDA study, but intends to expand upon main issues in e-lending in public libraries.
What is the role of public policy and copyright in e-lending? And is e-lending a purely legal business? Giuseppe Vitiello will expand upon the narrow scope and shortcomings of a purely legal approach to e-lending.
15.45-16.00: Q&A: What are hot issues in e-lending?
Valérie Bouissou, Chair EGIL, will present the EBLIDA “First European Report on E-lending in Public Libraries”. Although it is only focused on nine countries, the Report provides good insights on the e-lending e-book chain and lending models, and shows how digital literacy has gone up in all European states, and e-lending has not.
A key role in the e-lending chain can be played by an intermediate layers of aggregators, either because they negotiate on behalf of libraries, or because they aggregate resources and standardise models and practices.
Publishers are fundamental in the e-lending chain but they are often perceived by libraries as a curb to further expansion of e-lending in libraries rather than propeller. Mikkel Christopheren will explain how cooperation between librarians and publishers in Denmark has provided great momentum to the expansion of e-lending in Denmark.
16.30-16.50 In conclusion:
Libraries’ commitment towards a sustainable, democratic and equitable society (Chair: Ton van Vlimmeren, EBLIDA President)
The Chair will expand upon the close cooperation between EBLIDA, NAPLE and PL2030 and the joint event on 16th June.
8.30Registration desk open: Entrance area of the Goethe-Institut
After having worked together on an informal basis for years, on 24th February 2022 EBLIDA – NAPLE and Public Libraries 2030 announced that they would pool resources and efforts to strengthen library work in Europe.
This initiative brings together over 60 European library services and 68 national library bodies to create a stronger presence for European libraries and closer cooperation in a Europe that is now more connected than ever.
9.00-9.20: Welcome and framing of the day, by Barbara Schleihagen (Governing Board, NAPLE), Marie Østergård (Chair, PL2030) and Ton van Vlimmeren (EBLIDA President)
A short input pitch by Giuseppe Vitiello will ignite the debate around the responsibility of libraries in providing services for refugees. EBLIDA-NAPLE-PL2030 jointly signed the 24th February European Declaration condemning the barbaric attack of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. They also launched the Libraries for Refugees website. Important and sometimes uncomfortable issues concerning war, misinformation, and librarians’ attitudes will be discussed.
Conclusions: Giuseppe Vitiello (EBLIDA)
A short input pitch by Ilona Kish on library advocacy in Europe will examine how we can build up a methodology based on cooperation and a savvy repartition of library associations’ tasks.
PL2030 will present the joint recommendations of EBLIDA, NAPLE, PL2030 for the new EU Work Plan for Culture
Conclusions: Ilona Kish (Pl2030)
10.30-11.00: Break - Creating connections around a cup of coffee
PL2030 will discuss future 2022-2023 initiatives dealing with : Advocacy plan, EU training and Lighthouse Libraries clusters.
A discussion about the First European report on e-lending in public libraries and EBLIDA’s concept of sustainable copyright. Methodological issues emerging from the First European report will be discussed.
Preparing NAPLE future activities.
12.30-13.00: Conclusions of the Parallel tracks
Room: Conference Room
Marie Østergård (Chair PL2030), Barbara Schleihagen (Governing Board, NAPLE), Ton van Vlimmeren (EBLIDA).
