METLIB Prague'08
Programme
 
The photos from the conference are here.
June 2th

Monday

Prague, the City of Culture

Jan Kněžínek
Director of Culture, Monument Care and Tourism Department of Prague City Hall, Czech Republic

Introduction to Czech librarianship

Lenka Prucková
Director of the District Library in Olomouc, Member of the SKIP - Association of Library and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Prague Writers' Festival Eyes To See Otherwise

Michael March
President of Prague Writers' Festival; Jiří Gruša (Czech Republic) & Homero Aridjis (Mexico), International PEN

Presentation of the Municipal Library of Prague

Tomáš Řehák
Director of the Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

History of INTAMEL

Christian Relly
Librarien, Pestalozzi-Library Zürich, Switzerland
[ ppt ]

Management and Leadership in Copenhagen Public Libraries

Jens Ingeman
Director of the Copenhagen Public Libraries, Denmark
[ ppt ]

The new french revolution: a global digital library

Aline Girard
Directrice du département de la coopération, Bibliotheque nationale de France, France
[ ppt ]

The Right Book in the Right Place?

June 3th

Tuesday

Introduction of the National Library of the Czech Republic

Vlastimil Ježek
Director General of the National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
[ full paper ]

Presentation of the new library building The Eye Above Prague

Bohdana Stoklasová
Deputy for Library Management, National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Presentation of the State Technical Library

Martin Svoboda
Director of the State Technical Library, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Breaking the Boundaries to Increase Access to the World of Knowledge

Sujin Butdisuwan
Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
[ ppt ] [ full paper ]

Strategic Planning as a Vehicle of the Greek Central Public Libraries at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Evangelia – Maria Laskari and Petros A. Kostagiolas, Christina Banou
Central Public Library of Corfu and Ionian University Corfu, Greece
[ ppt ] [ full paper ]

Technologies Serving Libraries

Naděžda Andrejčíková
Cosmotron Bohemia and Slovakia
[ ppt ]
June 4th

Wednesday

Library as an Inspiration

Dana Kalinová
Managing director of the Book World, Ltd., Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Reading and Libraries

Sylva Šimsová
Principal Lecturer (retired), The Polytechnic of North London, United Kingdom
[ full paper ]

Materials from the Mid-Term meeting

June 5th

Thursday

Development in the Zurich Library System

Christian Relly
Librarien, Pestalozzi-Library Zürich, Switzerland
[ ppt ]

Queensland Memory: Today for Tomorrow

Vicki McDonald
Director - Client Services and Collections, State Library of Queensland, Australia
[ ppt ]

The Strategies and Action of Taipei Public Library to Promote Reading in Taipei City

Shu-hsien Tseng
Director of the Taipei Public Library, Taiwan
[ ppt ]

Patterns of Behaviour in Metropolitan Libraries

Liv Saeteren
Director of the Oslo public library, Norway
[ ppt ]

Map with locations

Liv Saeteren
Director of the Oslo public library, Norway
[ ppt ]

Libraries' Response to a Changing and Dynamic Landscape

Sharon Thien
Assistant Director of the National Library Board, Singapore
[ ppt ] [ wmv ]

Ode to the OBA

Hans van Velzen
Director of the Amsterdam Public Library
[ web - video stream ]

Invitation to the Brisbane Conference

Vicki McDonald
Director - Client Services and Collections, State Library of Queensland, Australia
[ ppt ]
June 5th

Friday

ENRICH: Towards an International Digital Library of Manuscripts

Adolf Knoll
Statutory Deputy Librarian - Deputy for Strategic Planning & RTD, National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Digitalization and Project HISPRA in Municipal Library of Prague

Eva Měřínská
Head of the Departement of the Digitization of the Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic
[ ppt ]

Multi-Culture development of Libraries in Shanghai

Shi Wei Wang
Vice Chairman of Shanghai Library Council, Shanghai Library, China
[ ppt ]

Engaging and Inspiring our Communities - 2008!

Deborah Jacobs
City librarian, The Seattle Public Library, USA
[ ppt ]

Re-imagine the Library. Mutual Infusion between the Net Library and the Library Net

Inga Lunden
City librarian, Stockholm Public Library, Sweden
[ ppt ]

Mainstreaming Library 2.0 - realigning public Libraries

Christine Mackenzie
CEO, Yarra Plenty Regional library, Australia
[ ppt ]

Designing Library Buildings for Everyone

Kathleen Imhof
Executive Director/CEO, Lexington Public Library, USA
[ ppt ]

Rare book collection of the MLP

Anna Rybáková
Departement of the rare prints of the Municpal Library of Prague, Czech republic
[ ppt ]


The institutions participating in the programme are: