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Council of Europe, 2nd multi-stakeholder Platform on Culture and Digitisation "Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy", Linz, Austria, 4-5 September 2015
 The Council of Europe, the “UN of Europe” consisting of 47 member-states on the continent, organised its second multi-stakeholder Platform on Culture and Digitisation “Smart Creativity, Smart Democracy” in Linz on 4-5 September 2015.
The event was organised in co-operation with the 2015 Ars Electronica Festival “Post City-Habitats for 21st Century” (3-7 September 2015).
The platform addressed several issues such as:
- How can digitisation be best used for facilitating access to and participation in culture and creativity with a view to strengthening democratic participation?
- What are the examples of recent innovative cultural practices and digital applications in Europe, what are their specifics?
- How were they set up and financed?
- Do they actually boost audience engagement, creativity and participation?
- What are the lessons learned, and can these be translated into principles for innovative cultural policy making, to be recommended by the Council of Europe to its member States?
All of these issues have to be considered in perspective of the drafting of the recommendation on the Internet of Citizens, a pendant to the Internet of Things, addressing the question of the impact of digitisation on culture, encompassing a human rights approach fully respecting the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
The Conference was practice-oriented and was a mixture of short presentations and round table discussions with senior policy makers, artists, cultural producers, practitioners from cultural institutions and professional associations as well as researchers, civil society actors and representatives from international bodies active in this field.
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EBLIDA Executive Committee Meeting in Berlin
Executive Committee (EC) members held their first EC meeting in Berlin on 7-8 September in the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek (ZLB).
With two third of new members present, the new EC is learning about how EBLIDA is organised, the way the Association works and its relationship with other organisations. It was a good opportunity for all the members to get to know each other, and start working on issues libraries and library associations are facing.
EBLIDA would like to thank Barbara Lison (EBLIDA Vice-President), the personnel of the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek (ZLB) as well as BID for their support in organising the meeting in an efficient manner. The next EC meeting will be held in two month time in Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) and will be hosted with the kind support of ALBAD.
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Next Library Festival, Aarhus, Denmark from 12 to 15 September
This year, with the opening of the brand new Public Library of Aarhus, Dokk 1, Next Library will offer a brand new environment for its fantastic conference with “fun, creativity, participation and emulation” as key words.
This Conference will bring together more than 300 participants from all over Europe. Vincent Bonnet, EBLDA Director has been working in cooperation with the President of the Library Association of Latvia, Kristīne Pabērza, to animate the interactive session Do pitch yourself! A Library advocacy 4 EU role-play.
The aim of the session is to work on common advocacy tools and techniques during a limited time-frame through role-play.
The idea is also to emphasise the importance of library associations and the involvement of professionals in these structures, as well as to inform the audience on upcoming major evidence-based advocacy actions at European level in the coming months.
EBLIDA Director together with other panellists will interact with the audience for a special session on Monday afternoon entitled ‘Libraries as a Global Force’, addressing the issue of moving the library agenda to a global scale.
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ELINET, Literacy Week in the EU and the UN
Team 7 of ELINET in charge of awareness raising, is organising the International Literacy Week. There are over 100 registered events taking place throughout Europe over the course of the week from 8 to 17 September.
The aim of the Literacy Week is to raise awareness on the importance of literacy and ELINET’s vision to ensure that every European citizen can read and write well enough to fully and independently participate in society.
It also centralises information on the 100+ events organised throughout Europe, some of which have been motivated by suggestions from ELINET’s partners.
Literacy Week commenced on Tuesday 8 September 2015 with International Literacy Day and will close with a special Literacy Week Closing Event on September 17 in Brussels from 14:00 to 18:00.
Through an interactive programme, the closing event will look back to what happened during the week while looking ahead to how ensure the vision stays alive into the future.
Speakers include:
- Mr Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport;
- Mrs Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility;
- Mrs Barbara Bush, Founder Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy;
- H.R.H. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, UNESCO Special Envoy on Literacy for Development.
There will also be contributions from visionary experts, a learner ambassador, and a ceremony for the 2015 Literacy Week Innovation Award.
Register now at http://www.literacyweek.eu/registration. The deadline is 10 September.
Should you have organised and registered an on the Literacy week website, or should you wish to support actions to raise awareness on literacy, please spread the news on twitter @ELINET_EU and #literacyweek2015.
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This very week, UNESCO organised in Paris a 2 day conference Literacy and Sustainable Societies. As highlighted on the UNESCO website, this conference “prepares the ground for literacy action in the post-2015 era, in particular:
- key issues to be addressed in light of the Education 2030 Framework for Action discussed at the World Education Forum 2015 (Incheon, Republic of Korea, 19-22 May 2015) for adoption at the 38th session of UNESCO’s General Conference
- monitoring of literacy progress
- effective global coordination to ensure sustained and coordinated efforts for literacy.
More information is available here.
This international conference is a wonderful opportunity for ELINET to be exposed to an international audience, and raise awareness on how Europe is tackling the literacy issue, hopefully thereby inspiring other regions in the world to follow with similar initiatives. Christine Garbe together with David Mallows and Greg Brooks presented the ELINET project to the Global literacy community on Wednesday morning.
It is a timely moment to introduce ELINET to the Global Community of the UN since United Nations are celebrating their 70th Anniversary, and the 50th Anniversary of International Literacy Day
At the beginning of August, IFLA welcomed the 2030 Agenda, which refers specifically to some core library values: access to information, safeguarding cultural and natural heritage, access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and, not the least, universal literacy.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development should be discussed and hopefully approved by all UN member states in a conference at the end of September in New York, providing that they get support from individual member-states of the United Nations.
There is no doubt that the text (available in the 6 official UN languages) should become an important reference document for all ELINET partners, and above all to the library community as a whole.
To be continued.
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September
September 7 – 11, 41st Annual Conference of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) and 16th European Regional Group of IAMSLIC (EURASLIC) Biennial Meeting
Place: Rome, Italy
Sponsor/Organizer: Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) and European Regional Group of IAMSLIC (EURASLIC)
URL: http://www.iamslic.org/conf2015/
September 7 – 18, Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies
Place: Online only
Sponsor/Organizer: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
URL: https://dgroups.org/fao/ciard-econsultation/sdgs-impact-access-information-societies/
September 9 – 11, What do we lose when we lose a library?
Place: Leuven, Belgium
Sponsor/Organizer: University of Leuven, Goethe-Institut Brüssel, and British Council Brussels
URL: https://kuleuvencongres.be/libconf2015/website/
September 10, UKeiG Training: New Google, New Challenges
Place: Manchester, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: UK eInformation Group
URL: http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/ukeig-training-manchester-new-google-new-challenges
September 11 – 14, 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'15)
Place: Bayonne/Biarritz, France
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://aiai2015.sigappfr.org/
September 12, Library Camp East of England
Place: Ipswich, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: CILIP East of England
URL: http://www.cilip.org.uk/east-england/events/library-camp-east-2015
September 12 – 15, Next Library Festival 2015
Place: Aarhus, Denmark
Sponsor/Organizer: Aarhus Public Libraries
URL: http://www.nextlibrary.net/
September 14 – 15, MmIT 2015 Conference: “With Power Comes Great Responsibility – How librarians can Harness the Power of Social Media for the Benefit of its Users
Place: Sheffield, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.cilip.org.uk/multimedia-information-technology-group/events/mmit-2015-conference-power-comes-great-responsibility
September 14 – 15, "Back to the future” – National Acquisitions Group (NAG) Conference 2015
Place: York, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: National Acquisitions Group (NAG)
URL: http://www.nag.org.uk/events/2015/06/conference-2015/
September 14 – 17, 18th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2015)
Place: Pilsen, Czech Republic
Sponsor/Organizer: Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia and Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
URL: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2015/
September 14 – 18, 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2015)
Place: Poznan, Poland
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://tpdl2015.info/
September 15 – 17, 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)
Place: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sponsor/Organizer: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
URL: http://oaspa.org/conference/
September 15 – 18, Austrian Library Conference: "Open E-Libraries: New approaches, new structures, new opportunities"
Place: Vienna, Austria
Sponsor/Organizer: Austrian Library Association
URL: http://bibliothekartag2015.univie.ac.at/
September 17 – 18, Danish Research Library Association (DFFU) Annual Meeting
Place: Aarhus, Denmark
Sponsor/Organizer: Danish Research Library Association (DFFU)
URL: http://www.dfdf.dk/index.php/component/redevent/details/26-%C3%85M2015?xref=22:arsmode-2015
September 18, 5th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA)
Place: Poznan, Poland
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://sda2015.dke-research.de/
September 19 – 23, European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2015)
Place: Oslo, Norway
Sponsor/Organizer: ESCSW Foundation
URL: http://www.ecscw2015.no/
September 19 – 25, Autumn School 2015 for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging
Place: Katlenburg, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/veranstaltungen/asirf2015/
September 21 – 24, International Conference on Integrated Information, IC-ININFO 2015
Place: Mykonos, Greece
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.icininfo.net/
September 23, Evolving Scholarly Communication Models (NISO Virtual Conference)
Place: Online only
Sponsor/Organizer: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
URL: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/scholarly_models/
September 24 – 27, 31st Göteborg Book Fair - Bok & Bibliotek
Place: Göteborg, Sweden
Sponsor/Organizer: Göteborg Book Fair/Bok & Bibliotek i Norden AB
URL: http://www.bokmassan.se/en/
September 25, UKeiG Training: Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: UK eInformation Group
URL: http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/ukeig-training-getting-grips-developing-managing-e-book-collections
September 25, Lead the Change: Transform Your Stacks to Drive Circulation
Place: Hanover, NH
Sponsor/Organizer: Library Journal
URL: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/lead-the-change/locations/2015-locations/#_
September 28 – October 2, Big Data, Smart Data and Semantic Technologies” (BDSDST 2015)
Place: Cottbus, Germany
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.fzi.de/en/aktuelles/bdsdst-2015/
September 28 – October 2, 2015 International Congress on Digital Heritage
Place: Granada, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://www.digitalheritage2015.org/
September 29, 3rd Annual STM and General Publishing Conference
Place: London, UK
Sponsor/Organizer: Rave Technologies - A Northgate Public Services Company
URL: http://rave-tech.com/stm-and-general-publishing-conference/
September 29 – October 1, 45th Congress of the Association of Directors and Management Staff of University Libraries and Documentation (ADBU)
Place: Besançon, France
Sponsor/Organizer: Association of Directors and Management Staff of University Libraries and Documentation (ADBU)
URL: http://adbu.fr/congres/
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