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FIRST COLUMN
Lets Keep Everything Worthy! - Anne Rande
In the recent years children’s librarianship has again become a theme to discuss. Today several professionals working with children are distressed, needing good ideas and help as well as guarantees to organise their work. One of the reasons for troubles might be obscuration of boundaries. Who should in principle, and when, establish relieving boundaries and proffer a helping hand in terms of methodology? The author of the First Column suggests that maybe some working experiences successful throughout times should be refreshened and put into use again. In the context of library services for children, a specialist like the one in museums, a pedagogue, should be employed, and if it is really found necessary to deal with children’s librarianship as a separate field of library business, the leadership should be in the hands of the Ministry of Culture.
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Financial Management in Libraries. Part III - Kate-Riin Kont
The third part of the article to be published in several journal numbers discusses the issues, why should librarians have financial know-how and whether library and information services should be free or charged for.
RESEARCH LIBRARIES
National Publications in Estonian Libraries: The Emergence of Archival Libraries. Part II - Anne Ainz
The story of collecting Estonian national publications, the first part of which was published in our journal No 2/2008, continues. The second part characterises archival libraries in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (the National Library of Estonia, the Book Chamber) and after the restoration of the Republic of Estonia.
EBSCO Day in Tallinn - Marika Meltsas
An overview of the discussion that took place in Tallinn in April 2008.
A Possobility ti Leaf Over and Buy - Sille Kurjamaa
An overview of new e-resourcesof EBSCO.
USER SERVICE
What Does a Librarian Expect from Readers? - Olga Einasto
The piece aims to analyse the potential of library user as a factor for providing quality services and introduces the results of questionnaires realised in six Estonian university and city libraries among librarians, seeking answers to the questions what kind of readers are agreeable to serve and, the other way round, are we alike in our expectations; what kind of qualities in users are regarded as important and if the client is a king in libraries.
The author concludes that in modern times being a member of servicing staff means offering professional help to the people in resolving their problems and meeting their needs.
In the Paradise of Readers, in Göttingen - Piret Lotman
Impressions of a researcher of the National Library of Estonia as a user of Göttingen State and University Library.
CHILDREN’S LIBRARIES
From a Methodological Centre to the Children’s Literature Centre - Anne Rande
The Estonian Children’s Literature Centre has taken by example the work of European institutions involved in children’s literature in its activities. That is why the Centre has not delved into methodological problems of children’s libraries in the recent years. In the beginning of 2008 the Centre was opened to the public in Tallinn Old Town, where user services are provided and literary events for children are organised. The building houses the Treasury of Children's Literature and Art Gallery.
Nine Jobs of One Department - Ädu Neemre
An article about the activities of the Children’s and Youth Department of Tartu Public Library. In addition to providing regular user service, these include organising drawing competitions, managing a puppet theatre, offering library lessons and carrying out school holiday programmes. An important task is to manage the content of the Library’s web page, thoroughly innovated in 2007.
NOTA BENE!
About Librarians’ Professional Competence - Krista Talvi
An overview of the actions taken regarding librarians’professional qualifications. A major step was taken, when Professional Standard for Librarians was approved in 2003 (amended in 2007). Professional qualifications can be applied for by passing a professional examination or substantiate his/her qualification by documents. The article analyses, why the applicant was refused to award the professional qualification. It also characterises the new procedure of substantiating and awarding professional qualifications.
E-LIBRARY
Electronic books: For Learning, Research and Recreation - Aile Möldre
Today electronic books are not especially innovational. Their several advantages compared with traditional printed books – possibilities to renew the contents, large capacity, information search possibilities, intertextuality and multimedia components – have helped them to powerfully establish themselves in several realms of publishing. Electronic format is perfectly suitable for publishing various speciality information, reference literature and scientific journals. The present piece focuses mostly on the developments trends in publishing electronic books, and neglects electronic journals.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Good Thoughts were Made Real in Saku - Ene Riet
An overview of Saku Rural Municipality Library that celebrated its seventy fifth anniversary in 2007 and moved to its new premises in the early spring of 2008. The Head of the Library, Helle Pärlin, who has been working in the Library for thirty-five years, was announced to be the best rural librarian in Harju county in 2007.
KONRAD KIKAS – 80
Moving on towards Integrated Research Library - Konrad Kikas
After Estonia regained its independence, soon documents for regulating the research libraries’ activities under new circumstances were started to draw up. It began with reviewing the contents of research libraries’ problems, which most vital result was drawing up research libraries acquisition plan by the Estonian Research Libraries Acquisition Working Group in 1994. The organisation of legislation concerning research libraries’ activities and resolving the issues of their financing from the state budget was achieved only in the current decade.
A Half of the Century of Work Mixed with Hobby: An Interview with Konrad Kikas - Tiit Valner
Konrad Kikas has dedicated fifty-two years of his life to the Library of Tallinn University of Technology and to the advancement of Estonian librarianship. The interview touches upon his long-standing activities as the Director of the Library of Tallinn University of Technology and upon his research as a director and currently as the Head of Research and Development Service. The articles written by Konrad Kikas treat the information needs of Estonian specialists, research libraries’ collection composition, and issues related to the efficiency of library services, statistical data and collecting the latter.
Five Decades on the Library Paths - Anne Veinberg
A critical review of collection of articles by Konrad Kikas, Verba volant, scripta manent, that was issued on the occasion of his 80th jubilee in 2008. In the collection, Konrad Kikas has published an overview of his publications during the period from 1957 up to 2007 and presents a selection of his previously published works.
EX LIBRIS
Moved from Toronto to Tartu - Kadri Tammur
Estonians living abroad have enriched Tartu University Library’s collection predominantly with Estonian émigré publications during the last two decades. Many of donated books include bookplates, and often inscriptions and a dedication written by author of the book can be found. This is extremely important additional value for library and Estonian book culture from the aspect of book, art and cultural history. The piece introduces book donation labeled with the Eerme family bookplates. The family’s donation reached Tartu University Library in 2004.
ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION
A Spring Meeting of Ten Years Old School Libraries Section - Kadi Altmäe
The ELA School Libraries Section celebrated its ten years of activities with an information day “Different Ways and Directions towards Reading” in April 2008. It focused on reading and modern means and ways how to introduce literature, the role of libraries in recent history and the future possibilities and goals in the Estonian context. The results of mapping school libraries and input for drawing up their development plan were discussed in greater detail. The results of mapping libraries turned out to be not quite positive. According to the development plan, all school libraries should meet the requirements for learning centres in the year 2015. Taking a glimpse on the current situation, several schools a facing a journey over high mountains to reach the destination of meeting the requirements in time.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
A Seminar of the IFLA Section of Libraries for the Blind - Marja Kivihall
An overview of a seminar “Putting Libraries for the Blind and Print Disabled on the Agenda” held on the 27 th and 28 th of February in Zagreb, Croatia and organised by the IFLA Section of Libraries for the Blind and the DAISY Consortium. Information specialist of the Estonian Library for the Blind, Marja Kivihall, presented a paper on the Library’s activities at the seminar.
NEWS
The Cornerstone to the Library of Tallinn University of Technology was Set - Gerda Koidla
An overview of setting the Cornerstone to the Library of Tallinn University of Technology on the 2 nd of April 2008 in the university’s campus at Mustamägi dwelling district.
The Budget of the National Libary of Estonia was Cut down by Three Million EEK
Pursuant to the Decision of the Republic of the Government to reduce expenses from the state budget, the Board of the National Library of Estonia authorized the economy budget for the year 2008, according to which the National Library's operating subsidy from the state budget will be cut down by approximately three million EEK.
The Ninth Nukits Prize was awarded to Andrus Kivirähk and Heiki Ernits
On the 12 th of April the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre announced the winners of the ninth Nukits Prize, given to most popular writer and illustrator among children. In this year’s user questionnaire 192 children evaluated books published in the years 2006 and 2007. This year the prize was awarded to Andrus Kivirähk and Heiki Ernits, whose book Leiutajateküla Lotte (Lotte from the Village of Inventors) that they had written and illustrated got the most votes both in the author’s and artist’s category.
Congratulations:
Krista Talvi – 60, Chief Specialist on Further Training of the National Library of Estonia, President of the Estonian Librarians’ Association from 1998 up to 2004
Rutt Enok – 60, Director of Harju County Library
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