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the generosity of which helped us to organize and participate in most of these events. January
President of the LLA Rima Graziene and member of the LLA Board Vida Garunkstyte
participated at the Annual Conference of Latvian Librarians' held in Riga.
February
Ex-member of the LLA Board Elena Kosinskiene celebrated 60 years anniversary.
Congratulations!
17th A group of Lithuanian librarians was received by the President of the Republic of
Lithuania. Present and future of libraries was discussed. It was decided to start a
program on modernisation of Lithuanian libraries (head of the program V.Bulavas).
20th Honorable Member of the LLA prof. Levas Vladimirovas
passed away.
March
30th Code of Ethics of Librarians was adopted.
30th Commemoration of prof. Levas Vladimirovas (photograph
34 KB).
April
15th A holiday of Vilnius Seigniors at the Lithuanian Medical Library.
20th-21st Members of the LLA Roma Girskiene and Irena Zinduliene participated at the Congress
of Village Librarians of Latvia in Jurmala.
Ex-president of the LLA prof. Domas
Kaunas celebrated 50 years anniversary. Congratulations!
The Librarian of the Year award ceremony took place in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania (photograph 59 KB):
- The Librarian of the Year - Dalia-Vladislava UZPELKIENE - Director of
Silute F.Bajoraitis Public Library (photograph 15 KB)
- Alvyda Skuodyte (Inducement award) - Deputy Director of Vilnius County
Adomas Mickevicius Public Library
- Vidmina Alubeckaite (Inducement award) - Head of Children Department,
Zarasai Public Library
- Stase Mikeliuniene (Special award) - Head of Manuscript Department,
Panevezys County G.Petkevicaite-Bite Public Library
- Irena Zinduliene (Special award) - Senior Librarian of Konstantinavo
Department, Rokiskis Municipal Public Library
Member of the LLA Board Birute Railiene and secretary of the LLA Andromeda
Zandaraviciene participated at the II Seminar of Library Associations around the
Baltic Sea held in Visby, Sweden.
Vice-president of the LLA Emilija Banionyte participated at the Meeting of Lithuanian
School Librarians with Sigrun Klara Hanesdottir, Director of NORDINFO and Kathy Lemaire,
Secretary of the UK School Libraries Association.
May
Vice-president of the LLA Emilija Banionyte and member of the LLA Ausra Burkauskiene
participated at the international conference Modern Library: Concept of Development
held in Minsk, Belorussia. A paper Present and Future of International Cooperation for
Lithuanian Libraries by E.Banionyte and E.Maceviciute was presented at the conference.
17th - 29th A group of 15 Lithuanian librarians went on a study visit to St.Petersburg
and Moscow (Russia) libraries. The study visit was sponsored by the East-East program.
Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania
celebrated 80 years anniversary. Congratulations!
June
A group of Lithuanian librarians participated at the international conference Libraries
and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation
held in Crimea, Ukraine.
August
20th - 28th E.Banionyte and V.Bulavas participated at the 65th IFLA General Conference in
Bangkok, Thailand.
September - October
A group of 15 Russian librarians visited Lithuanian libraries. The study visit was
sponsored by the East-East
program.
Members of the LLA Board K.Mackevicius, V.Degutiene, Z.Vaskevicius participated at the
international conference Public Libraries - Centres of Information and Culture held
in Stara Jablonki, Poland.
October
Librarian of the Year Dalia Uzpelkiene participated at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The visit was sponsored by Joint Stock Company Musu knyga.
November
8th - 14th Library week of Nordic countries at Lithuanian libraries.
11th - 12th President of the LLA Rima Graziene and member of the LLA Irena
Stanciauskiene participated at the scientific-practical conference Role of Libraries
and Associations in the Process of Democratisation. The conference was organized to
commemorate 10 years anniversary of Moscow Library Association.
December
9th An Annual conference of Lithuanian Librarians' Association, took place in
the Lithuanian Medical Library.
14th President of the LLA Rima Graziene and Vice-President Emilija Banionyte
participated at the press conferenece Poverty of Culture in the Saving Environment
held in the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania.
 
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