Events, 2009

Negotiations on the conditions of subscription to Science Direct database were held at Vilnius Pedagogical University Library. Participants: Piotr Golkiewicz, Charles Pallandt (both representing Science Direct), Stanislovas Žurauskas (Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania), Emilija Banionytė (LMBA Consortium).

The new Public Library Innovation Program (PLIP) was launched by eIFL.net. For more invormation, please read the Fact Sheet.

ICOLC Fall 2009 European Meeting was held in Paris (France). LMBA was represented by president E.Banionytė, head of administration A.Vaškevičienė and project manager D.Dlugoborskytė Budrienė.

Meeting of the LMBA Headquarters with the President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage" was held in Milan (Italy). LMBA president Emilija Banionytė represented LMBA at the Congress. Photos.

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met representatives of the culture, science, arts, and sports communities. President of the LMBA Consortium Emilija Banionytė participated at the meeting. Photos.
Press Release (in Lithuanian).

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6) was held in Geneva. LMBA was represented by eIFL.net Open Access coordinator in Lithuania Dr. Gintarė Tautkevičienė who presented a poster „Lithuanian Electronic Academic Library (eLABa)“ (authors G. Tautkevičienė, A. Štreimikis, V. Kučiukas). The trip was funded by eIFL.net. Photos.
The video's of the Conference
Posters

Rimutė Abramčikienė, director of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Library participated at the 30th annual IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) conference „Just for you. Quality Through Innovation“. Her participation was funded by the Ministry of Culture and VGTU. Photos.

Springer Library Advisory Board Meeting was held in Istambul (Turkey). LMBA was represented by president E.Banionytė and head of administration A.Vaškevičienė.

The Ministry of Culture nominated Rimutė Abramčikienė - director of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Library the Best Library Leader of the Year 2008. Audronė Kiršinaitė - Head of the Methodology Centre, Šiauliai County Povilas Višinskis Public Library was nominated the Best Librarian of the Year 2008. Julija Niauraitė - Head of Electronic Information Department, Vilnius University Library was nominated the Best Young Librarian of the Year 2008. Congratulations! Photos

EndNote X2 seminar was held in Library of Vilnius University (Universiteto st. 3, Vilnius).

Dr. Gintarė Tautkevičienė participated at the second global eIFL-IP conference held in Istanbul (Turkey). Photos.

A meeting with dr. Paul Evans (Elsevier) was held at the Vilnius Pedagogical University Library. Participants: prof. E.Butkus (Lithuanian Scientific Council), dr. S.Žurauskas (Ministry of Education and Science), E.Banionytė (LMBA) and A.Vaškevičienė (LMBA).