Events, 2011

 The conference Higher Education: Projects for ICT Implementation was arranged at Kaunas University of Technology. Click here to watch videos about the presentations and to enjoy the views from the conference in the picture gallery. At the conference G. Tautkevičienė, E.Banionytė and A. Vaškevičienė delivered a report Dissemination of Research Output in Open Access Resources.

 In November – December 2011 the drafted amendments of certain Articles of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights regulating the activities of some libraries were being intensively discussed. Their compromise wording was agreed upon after the negotiations among librarians, publishers and organizations protecting the rights of the disabled. On 21 December 2011 the amendments of the Law were adopted by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. To familiarise yourself with the wording, click here.

 Negotiations on subscription to the online products delivered by the publishing house Elsevier took place at the Research Council of Lithuania. The negotiations were held among the Elsevier representatives Endre Beky and Piotr Golkiewicz, Chairman of the Research Council of Lithuania Prof. Eugenijus Butkus, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science Raimondas Paškevičius and Albertas Žalys and the LMBA President Emilija Banionytė.

The LMBA 10th Anniversary Conference

On 20-21 October 2011 a conference Libraries for Science, Studies, Society dedicated to mark the tenth anniversary of Lithuanian Research Library Consortium was convened at Vilnius Pedagogical University.
 
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On 26 – 29 September the training in Oxford University Press databases was conducted by Marzena Giers-Fidler, the OUP representative:
On 26 September – in Vilnius, at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and in Kaunas, at Kaunas County Public Library.
On 27 September – in Kaunas, at the Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Panevėžys County Public Library.
On 28 September – in Šiauliai, at the Povilas Višinskis Šiauliai County Public Library.
On 29 September - in Klaipėda, at the Ieva Simonaitytė Klaipėda County Public Library.

Emilija Banionytė, LMBA Chairman, and Aušra Vaškevičiene, LMBA Head of Administration, took part in the seminar – discussion Demand for a Copyright Holder Searching and Identification System in the Digital Age arranged by the Lithuanian Publishers Association and attended a presentation of the European Union – wide ARROW project. 

On 5 August 2011 the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium signed the Berlin Declaration. The Declaration is available at http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung.

The Asociation of Lithuanian Serials together with the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium arranged the conference Scientometrics Tools: What Do We Know About Them and How Do We Use Them.

A web conference was held with an aim to present the databases eHRAF World Cultures and  eHRAF World Archaeology.

Training courses An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published in Research Journals were delivered for researchers at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in Kaunas and were attended by 90 researchers.

A Database Training Workshop  for librarians was arranged at Šiauliai University. The workshop was attended by 36 library orifessionals. 

Training courses An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published in Research Journals were delivered for researchers at Klaipėda University and were attended by 70 researchers.

Training courses An Insider’s Guide to Getting Published in Research Journals were delivered for researchers at Kaunas University and were attended by 270  researchers.

The General Meeting of the LMBA members was held at  the Lithuanian Library of the Blind.