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LIBIS
(1997- )
The software of Lithuanian Integral Library
Information System (LIBIS) was installed in the Library in 1998. The
cataloguing module was mastered; the preparations were made to retroconverse
bibliographical records from ISIS to UNIMARC format and in 1999 the records
for LIBIS Cumulative Catalogue were started to be accumulated. Presently the
subsystems of accumulation, cataloguing, ILL, readers’ service and
analytical bibliography are functioning. In the short run the branches of the
Library will also join the system.
Project on the Library
premises adapting for disabled visitors (1998)
The author of the project is G.Stauskis, the
consultant – E.Purlys. The planning and construction works were funded by
the Library and the Council for the Affairs of Disabled under the Government
of the Republic of Lithuania. The project was supported by the Society for
the Physically Disabled of Lithuania, Association of People with Spinal
Injuries, Lithuanian Union for Disabled and the Ministry of Economy of the
Republic of Lithuania. The premises on the ground floor were adapted for the
visitors in the wheelchairs: access to the Library, lobby, catalogues,
reading-room, sanitary room and etc.
Cooperation programme of
Scandinavian and Baltic countries: Nordic-Baltic Industrial Heritage Platform
(2000 – 2002)
The aim of this three-year cooperation programme of Scandinavian
and Baltic countries was to increase and
strengthen knowledge, appreciation and appropriate use of industrial heritage
in the Baltic Sea region. The
coordination center of the programme was the National Board of
Antiquities of Finland. The programme was
administrated by the National Committee of International Council on Monuments
and sites (ICOMOS). The Library as the participant of the project produced
two bibliographic works (http://www.ihp.lt/gateway/lt/index_1.html):
1.
Bibliographical index on the Sources of Industrial Heritage of Lithuania.
2. Bibliographical
index on Patents of Inventors of Lithuania before the World War II (in
English and Lithuanian) is available in electronic and printed versions.
ILL
(Interlibrary Loan) Support programme among the greatest
Libraries of Lithuania (2000-2001)
This project was financed by the
Open Society Fund-Lithuania (OSFL) and it funded the development of the
International Interlibrary Loan (IILL): acquisition of IFLA vouchers, payment
for the copies of the foreign publications and covering the post expenses.
The
project by Window to the Future alliance (2000-
In 2002 the
association Window to the Future started the project aimed at the business
support in developing information society. In 2003 under the Library request
a Public Internet Centre was established in Klaipëda branch of the Technical Library of Lithuania.
The
technical monuments in Lithuania (2002-
It is a continuous cycle of complex
exhibitions, devoted to the monuments of technical heritage in Lithuania. The
following exhibitions were organized: “The watermills of the Eastern
Lithuania” (2002), “Technical monuments in Lithuania” (2003), “100
years for Vilnius Thermal Power-Station” (2003).
Socrates
Grundtvig 2 project: Educational triangles (2002-2004)
The aim of the project is to find out the
educational needs of the adults, to promote the idea of lifelong learning, to merge the recourses and abilities of the different institutions in
the field of organizing the adult education. The Library was the coordinator
of the project and one of the members of the “Triangle” (along with the
Adult Education Center and Lithuania Art museum). The partners of the project
in six European countries were performing the analogical activity. In the
International Conference Lithuanian “Educational triangle” was
acknowledged as one of the best Grundtvig 2 projects, which has ever taken
place in Lithuania.
Socrates Grundtvig 2 project “Get to know my country: similarities and
differences in Europe (acronym SADIE)”( 2004 –2006).
The aim of the project
Get to know my country: similarities and differences in Europe (SADIE)
was to encourage an intercultural understanding, develop tolerance and
challenge common stereotypes. Coordinating institution -
Albacete Official School
of Languages (Spain). The partners of the
project: Lithuanian Technical
Library (along with Vilnius
Adult Education Centre (VAEC)),
Tampere College (Finland), Edinburgh Telford College (Scotland), King William
I College (Netherlands),
Vocational and Education
College
(Denmark).
Lithuania was introduced
through art, crafts and traditional fests. To this purpose a SADIE ART STUDIO
was established. It was attended by the learning adults of various
nationalities and ages seeking to master painting, earthenware, needlework,
collage making and the like.
SADIE ART STUDIO is a space for creation and learning and, undoubtedly, a
place to meet the congenial.
In the process of the project implementation, which is immediately concerned
with adults’ education, the Lithuanian Technical Library actively
collaborated with VAEC. The useful services provided by the Lithuanian
Technical Library (thematic queries, licensed full text databases and the
like) were introduced to the students of the centre. There also were
organized the trainings “The search in licensed full text databases. The
primer for the greenhorns”. In 2006 during the traditional Library week a
great number of SADIE project participants became the users of the Lithuanian
Technical Library. After all, a modern library has a lot to offer people
striving for knowledge.
Project activity was full of creative ideas, educational pursuits and
determination to learn.
SADIE
project has proved once
again that adults’ education can stimulate society modernization, encourage
critical estimation and acceptance of novelties as well as induce to uphold
universal values. Socrates programmes of the EU provide an opportunity to
remind people about their potential to develop in personal as well as
professional levels. So let us learn ourselves and let us infect everybody
around us with this kind of “virus” …
Closer
to Reader (2004-2005)
It is a joint project between the Library and
British Council Information Center, which comprises the cycle of 10 thematic
exhibitions on “Architecture and design of the United Kingdom”. The aim
of the project is to introduce new publications of the British Council
Information Center and the other useful information to the readers of the
Library. In 2004 the following exhibitions were organized: “Glass in the
Architecture”, “Interior design”, “Landscape design”.
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