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Main Events in 2001

We would like to thank all the sponsors the generosity of which helped us to organize and participate in most of these events.

January

21st-31st Participation at the International Symposium BOBCATSSS OPEN 2001 Knowledge, Information and Democracy in the Open Society: the Role of the Library and Information Sector held in Vilnius, Lithuania.

February

1st Vida Garunkstyte and Rasa Dambrauskiene participated at the annual conference of Latvian Librarians Association in Riga.

April

23rd-30th for the first time The National Library Week is held in Lithuania.

26th The Librarian of the Year award ceremony took place in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania: (photo 198 KB).

  • The Librarian of the Year - Aldonai KERPYTE - Director of Kretinga Public Library;
  • Vida Garunkstyte (Inducement Award) - Director of Utena Public Library;
  • Alina Jaskuniene (Inducement Award) - Director of Birstonas Public Library;
  • Valerija Zidoniene (Special Award) - Director of Ukmerge Public Library;
  • Regina Pugzliene (Special Award)- Director of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Library;
  • Zita Civilkaite (Special Award) - Deputy Director of Kedainiai Public Library.

May

9th Meeting of the LLA Board in Birstonas Public Library.

22nd The workshop Licensing the Electronic Documents was organized at the America Centre, Vilnius. The workshop was organized according to the CELIP project.

June

15-16th Emilija Banionyte participated in the CELIP project Steering Group meeting held in Prague.

August

16-25th B.Butkeviciene, D.Karliene, K.Mackevicius, R.Skorupskaite, R.Varniene participated at the 67th IFLA General Conference in Boston, USA.

October

2-4th Vilnius County Adomas Mickevicius Public Library was hosting a seminar Organizing Children Services for the Community in Public Libraries. Lecturers - Christine Hall and Janice Hall from the United Kongdom. The seminar is organized by the Library Association and Lithuanian Librarians Association with the help of the British Council.

25-27th III Nordic-Baltic Library Meeting Libraries in Knowledge-Based Society was held in Tallinn, Estonia. 20 Lithuanian librarians participated - sponsored by the Ministry of Culture.

November-December

28th Emilija Banionyte and Ausra Vaskeviciene participated in the CELIP project Steering Group meeting held in Helsinki.

29th-1st Emilija Banionyte and Ausra Vaskeviciene participated at the 3-rd e-ICOLC conference (International Coalition of Library Consortia in Europe) held in Espoo, Finland.

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