On 6 December 2016 the LMBA together with KTU organized a conference An Academic Library and Open Science. The conference was dedicated to the fifteenth anniversary of the LMBA activity and promoting the dissemination of the open science ideas in Lithuania. The conference took place at the KTU Science, Technology and Business Centre, the Open Access Santaka Valley at the address K. Baršausko str. 59, Kaunas.
On 19-21 November 2016, Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, and Jevgenija Ševcova, Manager of Databases, attended the EIFL General Assembly arranged in Chisinau.
On 8 November 2016, the IOPP seminar dedicated to the academic community and librarians was conducted at Santaka Valley of Kaunas Technological University.
Agenda:
09:45-10:00 a.m. – Registration
10:00-11:00 a.m. – Presentation of new IOPP resources and an upgraded platform of e-books, Possibilities of publishing articles on IOPP. Speaker – Francesca Brazzorotto, IOPP Regional Sales Manager;
11:00-11:30 a.m. - IOPP tools for researchers and librarians. Speaker –- Ailsa Burns, Marketing Manager.
On 7 November 2016, the IOPP seminar dedicated to the academic community and librarians was conducted at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
Agenda:
1:45 p.m. – Registration
2:00 p.m. – Presentation of new IOPP resources and an upgraded platform of e-books, Possibilities of publishing on IOPP to Lithuanian researchers
2:30 p.m. – IOPP communication and dissemination tools for librarians and researchers
On 19 October 2016, Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, had a meeting in Amsterdam with Igor Nikitin, the representative of Elsevier.
On 16-20 October 2016, the autumn ICOLC conference took place in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), which was attended by Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration.
26 September 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, had a meeting in Vilnius with Leszek Czerwinski and Jack Macdonald, the representatives of Cambridge University Press.
20 September 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, had a meeting in Vilnius with Diane Thomas and Marcin Kozakowski, the representatives of Thomson Reuters.
15 September 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration, had a meeting in Vilnius with Pavan Ramrakha, the representative of Springer Nature.
8 September 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration, had the meeting in Vilnius with Grzegorz Proszczuk, the representative of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
9 August 2016. Emilija Banionytė, together with the project development team, had the meeting with the representatives of the Central Project Management Agency (CPVA) to discuss the Project eMoDB.LT3: Opening of Online Research Databases for Lithuania – Stage 3.
3 August 2016. The meeting was held at the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to discuss the problems in preparing the Project eMoDB.LT3: Opening of Online Research Databases for Lithuania – Stage 3.
20 July 2016. Emilija Banionytė, the LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, had a meeting in Vilnius with the Accucoms representative Julius Mitė.
16 June 2016. Emilija Banionytė, the LMBA President, and the project preparation team had a meeting with the Central Project Management Agency representatives to discuss the project eMoDB.LT3: Opening of the Online Research Databases for Lithuania – Stage 3.
16 June 2016. Emilija Banionytė, the LMBA President, had a meeting with the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science and other employees to discuss the problems in the databases subscription.
19 May 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, had a meeting with Pavan Ramrakha, the representative of Springer Nature.
16 May 2016. LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a meeting in Vilnius with the EMIS representative Bogdan Czubak.
12 May 2016. LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a meeting in Vilnius with the Elsevier representative Piotr Golkiewicz.
12 May 2016. LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė are planning a meeting in Vilnius with the EBSCO representatives Leszek Czerwinski and Damian Piera
On 28-29 April 2016 the International Conference Reading Society: Paradigm Shift in the 21st Century will be arranged in Birštonas, where LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Databases Manager Jevgenija Ševcova will deliver a report What Can We Find Out from Statistical Data?
On 22 April 2016 the events dedicated to the 16th Lithuanian National Library Week Strong Libraries – Strong Scieties will take place at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania: the celebration of the International Book and Copyright Day which falls on the 23 of April, the Annual Conference of the Lithuanian Librarians Association. The events will be attended by EmilijaBanionytė, LMBA President, and AušraVaškevičienė, Head of Administration.
20 April 2016. LMBA President Emilija Banionytė and Head of Administration Aušra Vaškevičienė had a meeting in Vilnius with the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins representative Grzegorz Proszczuk.
On 25 February 2016 the event The Virtual Library – the Window to the World’s Scientific Information was held at the Vilnius Book Fair. It was conducted by Lina Šarlauskienė, Lina Blovesčiūnienė, Emilja Banionytė, Gintarė Tautkevičienė.
25 February 2016. Emilija Banionytė, LMBA President, and Aušra Vaškevičienė, LMBA Head of Administration, had a meeting with Michel De Winter and David Olson, the representatives of Wiley.