NAPLE’s Annual Assembly, 2013. Presentations (III)

Third presentation we publish from NAPLE’s Annual Assembly. Today, it’s about German Public Libraries and e-books. Its authors, Barbara Schleihagen and Miriam Schriefers, from the German Library Association.

E-Books in German Public Libraries

Presentations of IFLA-CILIP E-Book Seminar now available

Last January we published a post announcing the celebration of a seminar the IFLA Management of Library Associations (MLAS) was celebrating in Cooperation with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) called “E-Books in Libraries: A Global Question of Survival?” that would  take place at CILIP headquarters on February 21st 2013 in London, United Kingdom.

You can check the Presentations of this Seminar by clicking here

 

E-Lending for Libraries

Ever since the launch of e-books IFLA has worked on the e-Lending. The e-Lending Working Group, was created and tasked by the IFLA Governing Board with “developing a set of principles that could guide library professionals as they grapple with the complicated process of negotiating eBook licenses with publishers and resellers”. In 2012 they publish the “Background Paper on e-Lending” and now they have just created a web page aimed to gather resources and expand the amount of information available.

You can visit the web at this link

E-Books in Libraries: A Global Question of Survival?

IFLA Management of Library Associations (MLAS) is celebrating a Seminar in Cooperation with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) called “E-Books in Libraries: A Global Question of Survival?”. It will take place at CILIP headquarters on February 21st 2013 in London, United Kingdom.

Registration is free but places are limited. For full information and registration details:

http://www.ifla.org/events/e-books-in-libraries-a-global-question-of-survival

Two weeks for the Europeana Conference/ VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas

See you all soon in Burgos, Spain!!

Just two weeks for the start of the conference, don’t forget to register here

We will have the chance to listen to the interesting reflections of Professor Arsuaga. Next, we will start the sessions with a necessary debate on the future of public libraries in the 21st century with Roger E. Levien and Javier Celaya.

 We would like you to actively participate in this debate, that will open this new edition of the Public Libraries National Conference of Spain, this time organised as a Joint Event with Europeana. It will have an important presence of Spanish and international professionals as Kristiina Hormia, from the National Library of Finland on the Finnish Digital Library ; Rob Davies, Ad Pollé and Jon Purday, who will be speaking of different Europeana projects;  Jeffrey A. Rubin on Louisiana Digital Library and Martin Palmer on e-books in public libraries.

 Three round tables will include a wide range of topics to debate. This debate will be encouraged by leading professionals and also by you, through your collaboration in social networks.

 The impact of the digital environment in library services. Moderated by Nieves González

  Libraries andtheir communitiesin the digital era.  Moderated by Fernando Juárez

 Cooperation with Archives, Museums,Audiovisual Institutions and otherOrganisations inDigital Projects.Moderated by Javier Álvarez

 And also:

Communications and videos that we expect to be of interest to everyone

 We will also have the opportunity to know the city, with visits to   

Museum of Human Evolution, the new State Public Library in Burgos, the Network of Municipal Libraries of Burgos, the University of Burgos Library, the Cathedral, the Cartuja de Miraflores and the Monasterio de las Huelgas , among others.

 Please visit our website, which includes all this information and the programme at: http://en.www.mcu.es/bibliotecas/MC/2012/CongresoBP/index.html

 Follow us on Twitter at @VICNBP. The hashtag for the Conference is #VICNBP

 TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT

VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas / Europeana Conference
Secretaría Técnica del Congreso
Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Plaza del Rey 1, planta 0
28071 MADRID 

Congreso.publicas@mecd.es

E-services and e-books in Estonia

Today we present one of the last presentations of last NAPLE Assembly. In this case, Meeli Veskus from Estonia shows a general outlook of e-services and e-books in her country.

Spanish Challenges

Here comes one more presentation from the last NAPLE Assembly. In this case, Spanish Challenges by Mª Antonia Carrato Mena, from Spain. It shows the last news on subjects as digitisation or e-books in Spanish libraries.

Programme: Europeana Conference/VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas

The provisional programme for the Europeana Conference/VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas is already available here. More speakers will be added as they are confirmed.

The Conference, as published recently, will take place in Burgos on 9, 10 and 11 October 2012.

Europeana Conference/VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas

The registration for the Europeana Conference/ VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas to be held in Burgos, Spain, next 9th, 10th and 11th October is now open here

As we published some time ago in this post, the Directorate General for Fine Arts and Cultural Assets, Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, through the Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination, is organising the Europeana Conference / VI Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas (6th Spanish Public Libraries Congress), which will take place in Burgos (Spain) on 9, 10 and 11 October 2012 under the theme Public Libraries: Individual Memory, Global Heritage. This year the Conference will be a joint event with Europeana.

 The website for the conference is: http://en.www.mcu.es/bibliotecas/MC/2012/CongresoBP/index.html

 A draft programme will be published soon here, meanwhile here you can check the major topics that will be addressed. This year there is also a call for videos, now open for participation:

Contact address: congreso.publicas@mecd.es

Portal Kvalitaknih

Three e-book sellers (e-Reading.cz, Kosmas and Palmknihy) acting in Czechia started the portal “kvalitaknih.cz”. The portal is aimed to provide publishers with standards of producing quality e-books, but it is opened to all experts and professionals dealing with e-books, include librarians. The portal was introduced during the book fair Svět knihy (World of Books) held on the 17th -20th May in Prague.

The Portal is accessible on URL: http://www.kvalitaknih.cz

Eva Bartunkova
Department Head of Information Centre for Librarianship
Czech Republic