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the generosity of which helped us to organize and participate in most of these events. January
14-19th President of the LLA Rima Graziene and member of the Board Vida Garunkstyte
participated at the conference of the Russian Library of the Blind (to commemorate its
75th anniversary) in St.Petersburg.
24th Meeting of Lithuanian Librarians' Association, took place in the Lithuanian Medical Library.
29th Petras Zurlys - newly elected President of the LLA, Director of Vilnius County
Adomas Mickevicius Public Library was aworded with the Premium of the Ministry of Culture for the practical work in the
libraries.
February
16th President of the Republic of Lithuania awarded
these librarians with the Medal of the Grand Duke Gediminas :
Raimonda BUDNIKIENE – Head Librarian of Panevezys City Vyturys Secondary School;
Albina BUDRIENE – Senior Librarian of Zapyskis Branch, Kaunas Distric Municipality
Plublic Library;
Eleonora DIENINIENE – Senior Librarian of Antazave Branch, Zarasai Public Library;
Vida GARUNKSTYTE – Director of Utena Public Library;
Aldona KERPYTE – Director of Kretinga Public Library;
Violeta SKIERIENE – Director of Plunge Public Library;
Irena STANCIAUSKIENE – Director of Kaunas District Municipality Public Library;
Elena ZORUBIENE – Librarian of Lakstuciai Branch, Vilkaviskis Public Library.
March
21st Librarians' associations' round table with the Minister of Culture Mrs. Roma
Dovydeniene.
April
22nd Workshop Libraries in the Knowledge Society: Library Strategy and Library
Buildings in the America Centre,
Vilnius. The workshop conducted by the Flanders library specialists.
23rd Workshop Libraries in the Knowledge Society: Library Strategy and Library
Buildings in Siauliai County Povilas Visinskis Public
Library. The workshop conducted by the Flanders library specialists.
23-30 The National Library Week was held for the second
time in Lithuania.
29th The Librarian of the Year award ceremony took place in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania:
- The Librarian of the Year - Irena Viktorija STANCIAUSKIENE - Director of Kaunas
District Municipality Public Library;
- Danute Karliene (Inducement Award) - Director of Zarasai Public Library;
- Nijole Caplikiene (Inducement Award) - Senior Librarian of Vieciunai Branch,
Druskininkai Public Library;
- Irena Zilinskiene (Special Award) - Director of Siauliai City Public Library;
- Janina Pupeliene (Special Award)- Director of Klaipeda University Library;
- Audrone Berezauskiene (Special Award) - Head of Regional Studies and Publishing
Department, Anyksciai Public Library.
May
8-9th Albina Budriene, Senior Librarian of Zapyskis Branch, Kaunas District
Municipality Public Library and Nijole Caplikiene, Senior Librarian of Vieciunai Village,
Druskininkai Municipality Public Library participated at the III Latvian Village (Pagast)
Librarians Meeting in Jurmala.
31st Feast of seigniours at the Vilnius County Adomas
Mickevicius Public Library.
June
2-3rd Irena Staniuniene, Jonas Tubelis and Loreta Burbaite participated at the
international conference A Space for the Future
- Library Buildings in the 21st Century in Helsinki, Finland.
11th the delegation from the LLA and Lithuanian
Cultural Administrators Training Centre visited Kaliningrad District (Russian
Federation) libraries.
18th the LLA and the Lithuanian National Library
organized discussion Library Collection Development.
August
18-24th Vladas Bulavas, Audrone Glosiene, Zenonas Vaskevicius and Petras Zurlys -
members of the Lithuanian Librarians Association participated at the IFLA 68th General Conference in
Glasgow, Scotland.
October
9-14th Frankfurt Book Fair. LLA delegation
participated in it. Lithuania: guest country of the
Book Fair.
12-15th Emilija Banionyte and Zibute Petrauskiene participated at the conferenceFrom Printed Book to Digital. Tartu University
Library 200 held in Tartu, Estonia.
November
26th - December 2nd A group of library and municipality professionals from Georgia
visited Lithuanian libraries.This was the first stage of the bi-latteral project of
Georgian Library Association and Lithuanian Librarians' Association. The goal of the visit
is to get acquainted with the projects implemented in Lithuanian libraries, to find our
how the Lithuanian libraries are acting as community information, cultural and educational
centres, services they provide for their readers, policies of library development and the
role of libraries in developing these policies. Professionals from Georgia visited
Vilnius, Kaunas District, Klaipeda, Silute, Kretinga, Utena, Zarasai Public Libraries as
well as the National Martynas Mazvydas Library of Lithuania and the Vilnius University
Library. The visit was funded by the Open Society
Fund-Lithuania.
 
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