Finland: Towards the E-future

Here comes one more presentation from the last NAPLE Assembly. In this case, Towards the E-future, by Barbro Wigell-Ryynänen, from Finland.

The Danish Digital Library

Today  we are posting another presentation from our last  NAPLE Assembly in Copenhagen. It is The Danish Digital Library, by Jakob Heide Petersen, from Denmark.

EBLIDA – NAPLE Conference

Last 11th May 2012 in Copenhagen EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference took place with the theme “Democracy Development in a New Media Environment” a conference on the role on libraries in Europe and their current e-challenges.

Now the links are ready to see photos, videos plus the final version of the EBLIDA position paper about European libraries and the challenges of e-publishing and E-publishing and the challenge for libraries.

Digitization / E-book in Czech Republic

Today Eva Bartunkova’s presentation in NAPLE Assembly is available to read clicking here. It shows the range of digitization and e-books in Czech Republic currently.

NAPLE Annual Assembly

Last 9th and 10th May the NAPLE Annual Assembly took place in Copenhagen. This year the meeting theme was “Public Libraries in transition” and the 10 years of NAPLE were celebrated.

Thursday two round tables took place, the first about the “Use of public libraries, structure, organisation” and the second about “Digital library services and e-books”. The presentations of NAPLE members who participated in them will be published on the blog. Today,  Jan Braeckman’s presentation, Director of Bibnet vzw from Belgium, is available clicking here.

Next EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference

The next EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 11th, 2012. The program is now available and registration is open.

Conference site.

Michael Hartz Larsen
The Danish Library Association

New Portuguese Public Library at NAPLE Sister Libraries

Arcos de Valdevez Municipal Library has submitted its form to the Naple Sister Libraries Programme. Click on the name to see more  information. Good luck!

New Portuguese Public Library in Sister Libraries Programme

Lousada Municipal Library has submitted its form to the Naple Sister Libraries Programme.  If you want to know more, you can see it in the tag “Libraries” at the website.

Naple Blog: Call for submissions

We wish to inform you that from now on NAPLE (National Authorities on Public libraries in Europe) Blog welcomes external contributions to NAPLE Blog: http://napleblog.wordpress.com/

Be welcome to send news (projects, conferences, etc.) related to public libraries in any European country, even if the country is not a member of NAPLE. The blog aims to be a tool to gather updated information on European public libraries.

Please send any posts you wish to contribute with to napleorganization@gmail.com. Some guidelines:

• Always include the source or author
• Images and links are welcome

NAPLE  Secretariat

New libraries at Naple Sister Libraries Programme

Three new Polish libraries have submitted their forms to the Naple Sister Libraries Programme. They are the Public Library in Aleksandrow, the Municipal Public Library in Piekary Slaskie and the Chrzanów Public Library.  If you want to know more about them, you can check their forms here.