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	2002
		Issued 6 numbers a year

2002 nr. 3

EDITORIAL

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Dear cothinkers, An idea to talk about national information policy in our journal provided by Ene Loddes, the National Library of Estonia’s Director of Library Services, should excite our interest to participate in the discussion. So we have an opportunity to express our professional creativity. Creativity that is often understood in different ways and which cost is unfortunately predetermined in a case of every certain creator. Anyway, the new column inspired me to ponder upon the concept of information society. And I consider the events related to the important date for St. Olai’s library of Tallinn to be another guiding force for writing. Standing under the vaults of the Tallinn Town Hall and facing the centuries-old books, I sensed my satisfaction from the spiritual world over a long period of time – from its permanence, but also from its never ending motion. From the constant circulation of spirit. Nobody can forbid me to also take these books from the times gone by, escaped from plagues, wars and fires, for a part of information society. I looked for recently published printed, namely printed, treaties of information society, and I have to mention that there are only a few to be found. I came upon a single thought worth repeating in a chapter titled Information and culture from a book Infoühiskonna aabits (An ABC Book of the Information Society), published in 1997 and today already providing too little new knowledge. I quote – the primary task of any nation, including a small nation has to be the creation of information environment in its mother tongue. Let us again think about this five years later! The Principles of Estonian Information Policy approved by the Riigikogu in 1998 say that “information policy as a comprehensive concept” even permits me to intrigue a little on information society matters. Sometimes it really seems that the synonyms used for information society are computer and the Internet. After some clicks I look and see and tell the others, and I have contributed to the information society. I generate a database and by that I develop the information society… I even hear eloquent statements from the lips of librarians about developing the information society. Of course, we store information, this being our main task, but we cannot develop society by this. We are predominantly agents. However, wise men and women assert in big books that information society existed before computers came on the scene. In a simplified way it can be said that before computers the catalogue society was in libraries and elsewhere. It is completely possible that once the Internet society changes the present technology for a new one and a new (?)society steps in. Nevertheless, trying to be a citizen worthy of today’s information society, I add that several publications, including a yellow-covered The Global Information Society by William J. Martin warn of difficulties accompanying the implication of national information policy – and we aim to speak about these problems, too. In every society communication is the most important thing – so simple is my message. Maire Liivamets

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FIRST COLUMN The UK Information Policy Sirje Virkus Currantly, the United Kingdom lacks a general information policy basic document. The British government published its relevant stand points in a document Our Information Age in 1998. The Library and Information Commission (LIC) has played an important role in developing UK national information policy. Three lines of action carried out under a LIC project, People’s Network, involve network services, lifelong learning and training of public libraries’ staff. NATIONAL INFORMATION POLICY The National Bibliography Database Janne Andresoo The article strives to interpret the meaning and functions of the national bibliography database and give an overview of the Estonian national bibliography database that is planned to be developed. The latter should comprise all Estonian national printed materials and other kind of documents registered in the national bibliography provided in the Estonian Legal Deposit Act, and include both retrospective as well as current national bibliographic data. The database in planned to be developed on the basis of the currently generated union catalogue ESTER of the integrated library system INNOPAC and will be integrated with the activities of the Estonian ISBN and ISSN agencies. RESEARCH LIBRARIES Research Library and the Identity of a State Piret Lotman A year ago an eager discussion on research libraries was going on; today the discussion has died, leaving a number of unanswered questions. A historian, Piret Lotman takes a glimpse on the development of Estonian research libraries in 1930s. The concept of Estonian librarianship emerged together with public libraries. The Estonian public libraries network was already state financed since 1921. Gottlieb Ney, a director of the State Library, brought up the question of research libraries in 1936, proposing the change of the State Library into a national research library collection that would cooperate with other research libraries. PUBLIC LIBRARIES About the Enquiries the Public Libraries Have to Answer Iisi Puusepp An overview of user groups who make enquiries in public libraries, of subjects and quantity of enquiries. Saare County Central Library in Its New Premises Anu Vahter On 7 June the library's new building will be opened. LIBRARY MARKET PENETRATION Library Marketing – For What? Kristiina Tõnnisson The author regards marketing not only as selling, advertising, and disseminating information, but as a complex chain of activities, which spring from the requests and needs of both the client as well as the organisation and which main idea is exchange. ESTONIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION The EU Framework Programme Culture 2000 Eike Eller The framework programme Culture 2000 supports the cooperation for organising joint exhibitions, performances, concert tours, research projects, conferences, etc. The article provides an overview of the currently EU supported projects where Estonia is involved. The Hiiu County Museum involvment in the programme Culture 2000 Helgi Põllo Within the framework of Culture 2000 programme the Hiiu County Museum participates in the collaboration project of Greece, Austrian and Swedish museums. Two years of the EU Information Phone Õnne Mets The project leader of the EU Information Phone gives an overview of the issues touched upon in the questions asked, their amount and the answerers. The EU Information Phone has also organised information days. RECENT LITERATURE ON LIBRARIANSHIP INTERVIEW A conversation with a Linguist, Tiiu Erelt Maire Liivamets BOOK HISTORY De Laudibus sanctae crucis by Maurus Hrabanus Marita Paas A third article in a yearly column on the first town library of Tallinn, Tallinn Town Library at St. Olai’s Church, established in 1552. An overview of a book, De laudibus sanctae crucis (To Praise the Holy Cross), included in the collection. The first print of the book was published approximately 500 years ago, in 1503. ESTONIAN HISTORY OF IDEAS A Reliable Guide to the Land Where Traditions Evolve Ellen Arnover An overview of a selected articles’ collection Kultuur ja traditsioon (Culture and Tradition) by a merited etnographer, Ants Viires, published in the series Eesti mõttelugu (Estonian History of Ideas) in 2001. THE ANSWER PLACE A librarian at the Emmaste library, Eha Rammo, the head of Assamalla library, Meeli Kuntur, the head of Kõo library, Ille Riisk, and the head of Eidapere library, Anne Idvand, talk about the attitude of village people towards rural intelligentsia. READER’S COLUMN The Trains of Thought of Rural Librarians in Spring 2002 The comments by rural librarians to the editorial of Raamatukogu 1/2002 by Maire Liivamets, where she treated the acquisition of Estonian literature in public libraries. Digital and/or Second Literacy Enn Vatter A discussion on literacy, the second literacy and the information literacy has been impelled by an article Digital Literacy by Liia Tüür, published in Raamatukogu 5/2001. ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS' ASSOCIATION The “Devil’s Dozen” was completed Ade Soon About the 13th information day of School Librarians Section, titled School Libraries as the Developers of Learning Environment and Skills. NEWS The National Libraries of Estonia Act Amended Tiiu Valm "I was surprised how good Estonian libraries are": the journal's editor's interview with Chaterine Deschamps, the President of IFLA Ene Riet Distance Education for Librarians Sirje Virkus An overview of a project Distance Education for Librarians: Creating an Information-Competent Society. Tallinn Town Library at St. Olai’s Church – 450 Lea Kõiv An overview of the events for celebrating the 450th anniversary of the first town library of Tallinn – an international conference The Book and the Library in the Cultural Space of the Baltic Sea Regoin in the 16th-18th Centuries, exhibitions at the Tallinn Town Hall and the Estonian Academic Library – and of a publication Tallinna Oleviste raamatukogu – Bibliotheca Revaliensis ad D. Olai 450. The 6th Nukits Contest On 13 May at Tallinn Town Hall the winners of the 6th Nukits contest were announced. Congratulations: Milvi Tedremaa – 65, the director of the Medical Library of Estonia In memoriam: Helmi Masing – a merited lector of librarianship

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