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	2005
		Issued 6 numbers a year

2005 nr. 3

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Dear colleague, Now and again I am confused, listening to my colleagues’ remorseful expressions of opinion that this or that should have been left the way it was in the library field. Actually, there is nothing confusing in the desire to preserve the existing. However, such notions mostly reveal an idea that librarianship is something completely isolated and self-contained. Like libraries could function irrespective of the development of culture and the entire society, and of the needs of library users. The issue of neglecting the users’ needs indirectly emerged also at the 4th Nordic-Baltic Library Meeting, held in the beginning of May at Liepaja. Jens Thorhauge, Director of the Danish Library Authority, expressed his astonishment after having listened to Regina Varniene’s, the Acting Director of the National Library of Lithuania’s, paper that thoroughly treated the successful digitisation of Lithuanian manuscript and old book collections: “Why and to whom you are doing this? Only a few researchers use several hundreds of years old publications. Wouldn’t it be more reasonable simply to provide necessary preservation conditions for those publications, and select collections in active use for digitisation?” The limited size of Lithuanian cultural space and the necessity to preserve publications on different carriers, proceeding from that limitedness, did not sufficiently reason the present situation in the eyes of the Dane, the representative of the culture almost as small as Lithuanian. Closer to us, at the Finnish Helsinki University Library, there have been established outstandingly good collection preservation conditions, and library routine is based on the user needs. Users are the kings at the Nordic libraries. What about us? How many databases are still accessible only in the computer of its generator? Do our planning activities proceed from the gains of our readers, or do we consider only our own convenience and follow the attitude of “this has always been done like that”? How thoroughly do we generally plan our activities? Let the summer be besides the time for rest and vacation also a time to ponder upon our everyday duties. Ene Riet Editor

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FIRST COLUMN A Memory Institution – Its Concept and Position in the Society - Anzori Barkalaya The Rector of Viljandi Academy of Culture discusses the role of culture and the characteristics of a viable culture, as well as the cultural role of memory institutions. The author is of the opinion that the role of Estonian memory institutions lies in organising the promotion of the best practice and circulation on being an Estonian and on humanity in the Estonian cultural space. LIBRARIANS Librarian’s Stereotypes Over Time - Signe Jantson, Kate-Riin Kont Relying on the history of libraries and literature, the article treats the stereotypes of the library profession in the past and searches for the turning point, when the present stereotype related to the profession emerged. When Does an Employee Get Old? - Marju Rist When does an employee get old enough to retire? The answer to that question is essential for both the employer as well as the employee. The author recognises that only results should count at work, not the person who is doing the job or his/her age. LIBRARY EDUCATION I Am Making Sense of Our Professional Standard - Rutt Enok An opinion of the Librarians’ Professional Standard, a reaction to Mati Muru’s article “Some Thoughts about Professional Standard”, published in the previous journal issue. Rutt Enok, Director of Harju County Library, a member of the recently liquidated Professional Council of Librarians that approved the professional standard under discussion, and the working group that drew up the standard, points out three principles that were considered in drawing up the standard. These are the following: 1) the standard sets classical minimum requirements for a librarian’s professional skills, 2) the requirements set in the standard are not position-related, 3) the profession standard is a tool for evaluating actual knowledge and skills of an employee. The 21st Century Librarian Is an e-Librarian - Mai Põldaas Quickly developing electronic world and the accompanying professional requirements for information workers determine the direction, where modern librarians are constantly bound to learn. It includes competence of computers and integrated information systems, know-how about using electronic information in user service and in professional communication, and English language skills, as majority of information is produced in English. RESEARCH LIBRARIES The Database of Pseudonyms Was Published on the Web - Merike Kiipus The Bibliography Department of the Archival Library of the Estonian Literary Museum has already been involved in the work with pseudonyms for approximately eighty years. The card file of solved pseudonyms and anonyms has been constantly improved, the number of its entries already reaching 22,000 items. In the end of 2004, the generation of the database of pseudonyms began. The database can be accessed via the Internet (http://www2.kirmus.ee/biblioserver/isik/). Collection of ‘Honorary’ Copies - Heino Räim The accession list of the collection of newspaper and magazine issues, presenting authors’ fees for bookkeeping purposes, in the Archival Library of Estonian Literary Museum includes 76 entries, 74 of which have been published under special title. Information Work Before and After the EU Accession - Õnne Mets Seven years of activities of the EU Information Centre at the National Library of Estonia. PUBLIC LIBRARIES The Libraries of Jõelähtme Commune - Taimi Saarma The mayor of Jõelähtme commune gives an overview of the com-mune’s cultural life, first of all, of the situation of local libraries. Already the Forth Generation of Users Visit Kaber-neeme Library - Laine Mei An overview of the past and the present day of Kaberneeme Library. The Blue Dream of Loo - Urve Liivrand About the changes in Loo Library after moving it to its new premises in the end of 2004. Home Page of Rapla County - Leini Kõrtsini The principles of generating and managing the Internet home page of Rapla Central Library. Võru County Central Library’s Home Page Renewed - Inga Kuljus An overview of the contents and generation principles of the new home page. INTERVIEW The Viability of the State Depends on the Reading Habits of Children: an Interview with Anne Rande - Maire Liivamets A talk with the Director of the Estonian Children’s Literature Information Centre about children’s libraries and children’s literature. NORDIC AND BALTIC LIBRARIES Cooperation Between Tallinn and Helsinki - Gerda Koidla A lenghty overview of the forty- years long cooperative relationship between the libraries of Tallinn University of Technology and Helsinki University of Technology. Supported by the Finnish partner, the library of Tallinn University of Technology – the Estonian Resource Library for Technology – became a full member of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) in 1990 and took part in international cooperation project DEDICATE in 1998–1999. In spite of close cooperation, the libra-ries had not entered into bilateral cooperation agreement until the beginning of 2005, when they signed a five-years cooperation agreement. Future Scenarios for Libraries: Finnish Perspectives An abstract of an article, treating the development trends of Finnish libraries, published in a journal Signum. There Is No Learning Centre Like Aleksandria in Estonia - Ellen Arnover An overview of the study trip of Tartu University Library’s staff mem-bers to Helsinki University's Learning Centre Aleksandria. TERMINOLOGY International Standard of Terminology EVS-ISO 5127 - Sirje Nilbe In autumn 2004 the Estonian Centre for Standardisation published an Estonian standard EVS-ISO 5127:2004, Informatsioon ja dokumentatsioon. Sõnastik, an Estonian translation of the corresponding international standard, Information and documentation : vocabulary. The Estonian terms are provided with English and French equivalents, drawn from the source standard, as well as Finnish terms from the standard SFS-ISO 5127. Information Totality – Changing, Unchangeable, Sometimes Invisible - Kristel Schwede A contemplation based on a new term – infotervik (information totality). The word emerged, when the author started to look for a common term for different information phenomena and complexes. ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION Information Day - Reet Olevsoo An overview of the Information Day, organised on the 6th of April and reviewing the discussions about the shift to the system of attestation of professional qualifications that have been going on at the Committee on Education and Professional Commission. A Training Event at Põltsamaa - Reet Olevsoo An overview of a learning day for the heads of central libraries’ acquisition departments on the 20th of April. CONFERENCES & SEMINARS Nordic and Baltic Libraries’ Development Strategies - Anu Nuut An overview of the 4th Nordic-Baltic Library Meeting “Research and Innovation: Nordic–Baltic Strategies for Library Development”, held in Liepaja, Latvia on 1–4 May. The meeting focused on the issues of new digital environment, digital libraries, library performance, research and development, and library education. Library Day at Viljandi On 21 April 2005 an annual report meeting for librarians, this year treating library development issues, was held at Viljandi Academy of Culture. Morning session focused on research and development activities of the National Library of Estonia; on the other half of the day, issues related to professional training in Estonia and in Finland, as well as the history of Finnish libraries were treated. The 11th EURASLIC Conference on Aquatic Sciences Information - Maria Kalenchits An overview of the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC), held on 4–6 May in Splits, Croatia. The BOBCATSSS Symposium Will Be Held in Estonia for the First Time - Veronika Rogalevitch Preliminary information about the BOBCATSSS symposium that will be organised by the Department of Information Studies of Tallinn University and the Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science in Tallinn at the National Library of Estonia and Tallinn University from 30 January up to 1 February 2006. The main theme of the symposium will be “Information. Innovation. Responsibility: Information Professional in the Network Society”. Further information can be found on the Web address: http://www2.db.dk/bobcatsss The IDSL Conference in Tallinn - Mari Kannusaar Preliminary information about the international interlending and document supply (ILDS) conference that will be held on 20–23 September 2005 in Tallinn. Further information can be found on the Web page: http://www.nlib.ee/ilds NEW BOOKS Recommendations for self-education - Anneli Kuiv NEWS Hans Christian Andersen Day - Ene Riet An overview of the events of international children’s books day, organised by the Estonian Children’s Literature Information Centre and the National Library of Estonia at the National Library on the 2nd of April to celebrate the 200th anniversary of H. C. Andresen. Viktor Alekseyev's Illustrated Thumbelina - Kersti Tiik An Introduction of the First Print, Published by the National Library of Estonia. With or Without Illustrations An overview of the 6th Round Table of Children’s Literature, held on 7 April 2005 at the Estonian Children’s Literature Information Centre. The Muhv Prize to Mare Müürsepp On 5 May the prize winner of the Muhv Prize was nominated. It went to Mare Müürsepp, a lector of children’s literature at the Chair of Primary Education of Tallinn University. In memoriam: Helene Kulpa (1910–2005) – a long-standing lib-rarian and honorary member of the Estonian Librarians’ Association. Boris Volodin (1952–2005) – a Russian library researcher who also studied the history of Baltic libraries; a long-standing research fellow at the Research Department of the National Library of Russia. Lembi Taivokainen (1920–2005) – a long-standing employee of the National Library of Estonia.

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