Events, 2015

27 November 2015. The seminar designated for the academic community and librarians will be delivered by Refworks at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (Studentų Str. 39, Room A3).
Program of the seminar:
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Registration and coffee;
11:00 – 11:05 a.m. Welcome – Juri Vala, Proquest Customer Service Representative;
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Refworks novelties – Gregory Judelson, Proquest Sales Manager;
11:30 – 12:00 a.m. Presentation of a new Refworks platform – Gregory Judelson, Proquest Sales Manager;
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Discussion on the efficient use of Refworks and its presentation to users.
 

18 November 2015. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, had a meeting with Pavan Ramrakha and Ad Stam, the representatives of Springer Nature.

8-10 November 2015. Dr. Hlaing Hlaing Gyi, Director of Yangon University Library, and Hla Hla Win, Director of Mandlay University Library, were provided with the of-the-job training at the LMBA. During the of-the-job training the trainees visited the Libraries of Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas University of Health Sciences as well as the Headquarters of the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium. They were interested in the processes of compiling and developing the Union Catalogue, trainings delivered by the Universities, the activities of Library Consortiums. Dr. Hlaing Hlaing Gyi ir Hla Hla Win are going to apply the acquired knowledge in their home country.
We wish our foreign colleagues the best of success and express thanks to our member libraries for their assistance in arranging the training and earnest sharing of their knowledge and experience.

23 September 2015. The LMBA President Emilija Banionytė had a meeting with Elsevier representatives Tomasz Psonka and Krzysztof Szymanski.
 

9 September 2015. The LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a teleconference with Elsevier representatives Endre Beky and Tomasz Psonka

On 15-21 August 2015 the IFLA World Library and Information Congress – the 81st IFLA General Conference
Dynamic Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation was arranged in Cape Town (South Africa). Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, attended the event as a member of the Lithuanian delegation.
 

29 June 2015. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration, had a meeting with Dr. Otmar Mueller, a representative of UpToDate.

22 June 2015. Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration, took part in the meeting initiated by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania to discuss the issues of the legal deposit of electronic documents.

11 June 2015. Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration, and Jevgenija Ševcova, Manager of Databases, had a meeting with Pavan Ramrakha, a representative of Springer Link.

On 8 May 2015, the LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a meeting with Marcin Dembowski , the representative of an academic publisher Oxford University Press.

On 26-29 April 2015, the ICOLC Spring Meeting was held in Albany (the US), which was attended by the LMBA Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičiene and Databases Administrator Jevgenija Ševcova.

2nd April 2015. The LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a meeting with ABI-IPS representative Ursula Sasimowicz-Andrzejewska and BMJ representative Igor Hundziak