Libraries and Lifelong Learning

Session1: Monday, May 24, 2004 10.15-11.45

 Libraries – places of lifelong learning and individual development
Barbara Lison, Director of the Public Library in Bremen

Latvian public libraries and lifelong learning, social inclusion and digital literacy
Dzidra Šmita, Director of the Riga Central Library

Session 2: Monday, May 24, 2004 12.00-14.00

Lifelong Learning in Greece
Alexis Kokkos, Open University of Greece

Lifelong Learning for U.S. Public Library Staff: Trends, Challenges and Case Histories
Susan Aramayo, Library consultant

Session 3: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9.30-11.30

Strategies to promote Public Libraries in Andalucia: The case history of the Malaga Provincial Public Library
María Luisa Torán Marín, Directora del Servicio Bibliotecario Provincial de Málaga y Gerente del Pacto Andaluz por el Libro. Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía

Ask anything - radio program. One way to lifelong learning
Saara Ihamäki, Public Library of Helsinki

Session 4: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12.00-14.00

Libraries as learning centers: highlighting European experiences
Magda Trantallidi, Ministry of Education, Secretariat of Adult Education

PULMAN and CALIMERA, two European actions to support and strengthen the cooperation between Libraries, Archives and Museums at local level
Ioannis Trohopoulos, Director of the Veria Central Public Library

Session 5: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9.30-11.30

CEDEFOP: the Role of a Specialist European Library in Vocational Training
Maite Santos, Documentation Specialist, CEDEFOP - Library, Documentation and Archives Services

Cooperation-Coordination-Coalition: the HEAL-Link Experience
Claudine Xenidou-Dervou, Site Librarian, Physics & Informatics Depts., Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and Coordinator of the Steering Committee for Electronic Resources for HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link)

Session 6: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12.00-14.00

Library System of Florence: Projects in Progress and Future Plans for Citizens and their Needs for Education and Information
Francesca Gaggini, Library Administrator for the Municipality of Florence

Information, formation and lifelong learning in the French Public Libraries in 2004
Hélène Jacobsen, Conservatrice, Directorate of Books and Reading, Ministry for Communication and Cultural Affairs of France