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FIRST COLUMN
Saima-Õie Andla - In Hard Times, Wise Decisions Have to be Made
The thoughts of the Director of Pärnu Central Library, the laureate of the Estonian Librarians’ Association’s Annual Prize of 2008, about Estonian public libraries and librarians.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Saima-Õie Andla - A Cultural Centre in the Heart of the Town
Pärnu Central Library became a hundred years old on the 7 th of January. The event was celebrated in a modern multifunctional building that was opened to the users after its full completion on the 7 th of November 2008. (The first stage of the building was opened in May 2003.) The article describes the initial years of the library, and the opportunities the library’s new building offers both to the staff as well as to the readers.
Helje Pulk - The Best Venue to Hold Your Child’s Birthday Party
In the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, children are brought to the books in Uulu, Pärnu county in a new way – the library started to hold birthday parties for children.
Krista Kumberg - Long Toil Yielded Fruit
The residence of Haapsalu Children’s Library, a two centuries old building on the address Wiedemann Street 11, has been renovated. The library got itself the first floor, where popular science literature and the playroom and reading room for younger children were moved. The former lending room was widened by pulling down the walls. The reading room on the ground floor was turned into the exhibitions and journalism reading room.
RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Katre Riisalu - The Story of the Development of Music and Fine Arts Collections in the National Library of Estonia
In 2009 the National Library’s Music Department celebrates its fiftieth and the Fine Arts Department its thirtieth anniversary. The articles provides an overview of the development of their collections and their state of the art. Personal collections, preserved as integral units, are treated separately.
Rene Haljasmäe - Preservation Activities in the Academic Library
An introduction of preservation activities performed in the Academic Library of Tallinn University. This year in January, twenty years passed from establishing the Department of Conservation that deals with collection preservation issues. The article provides an overview of the philosophy and methods of preservation, and also highlights related problems and visions.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Anu Kehman - Proceedings of the Estonian Children’s Literature Information Centre No 3
By the end of 2008, the 3 rd instalment of Eesti Lastekirjanduse Keskuse toimetised (Proceedings of the Estonian Children’s Literature Information Centre) was published. It contains articles, written by the members of the Working Group for Research on Children’s Literature that is active at the Centre.
Ene Riet - Märjamaa raamatukogu 1903–2008 (Märjamaa Library 1903–2008)
The publication that celebrates the 105 th anniversary of Märjamaa Library includes the recollections of both the library’s heads and long-standing employees as well as of its readers.
NOTA BENE!
Toomas Schvak - The European Library Innovated its Web site
An introduction of the Web site.
Õnne Mets - The National Library of Estonia Launched a Literature and Language Blog
The literature and language blog was opened in March to give the wider public an opportunity to partake in and express the opinions on Estonian literary and language issues. Maire Liivamets publishes critical reviews on books and her ideas about Estonian literature, Siiri Lauk ponders upon terminology matters and Inna Saaret provides linguistic advice. The bloggers are the members of the National Library’s staff, but express their own personal opinions and not the official point of views of the organisation. You are welcomed to read the entries and provide feedback on the Web address: http://kirjandusjakeel.blogspot.com
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Merike Poljakov - Applications of Team Work II
The second part of the article to be published in several issues of the journal lets to know what are the characteristics of a successful team work, which factors determine the efficiency of team work and how the efficiency of team work is evaluated. The piece also highlights the shortcomings of team work and the reasons why conflicts emerge and the ways and stages for settling these. The necessity of team work for CEOs in library field is separately treated.
BOOK HISTORY
Helje Kannik - Book Printer Christoph Reusner
Christoph Reusner printed books only for three years from 1634 up to 1937 in Tallinn, but he, however, managed to found basis for the art of printing on a good level in the town. Before settling in Estonia he practiced in Rostock and Stockholm. The article gives an overview of the activities of Reusner’s printing shop in Tallinn and characterises its most important publications.
PERSONAGE
Ene Riet - The One who is Stirring, Manages: A Busy Day of Aino Müllerbeck
A long-standing bibliographer, now retired Aino Müllerbeck works as a volunteer in the Ehatare Library of the Estonian Home in Toronto. She is one of the most active members of the Bibliography Club at Toronto Tartu College and also participates in organising local Estonian archives and library. Besides that, she has managed to bring into order the archives of Toronto St. Peter’s church.
CRITICAL REVIEW
Piret Lotman - A Hundred Years in the Language of Numbers
A critical review on the collection of articles, Pärnu Keskraamatukogu 100 aastat [1909-2009] (A Hundred Years of Pärnu Central Library), published by the end of 2008 on the occasion of the centennial of Pärnu Central Library.
ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION
Ene Riet - The Puksoo Day in 2009
An overview of the report meeting, “About the Book, Library, Librarians”, held on the occasion of the 199th anniversary of Friedrich Puksoo in Tartu University Library on the 23rd of January 2009.
Tiiu Reimo - The Puksoo Prize 2007/2008
The Puksoo Prize is being awarded for the publication or article on book history, issued in the two recent years. The prize went to Meelis Friedenthal, a researcher of Tartu University Library, whose thesis, Tallinna Linnaarhiivi Tractatus moralis de oculo (Tractatus moral de oculo of Tallinn City Archives; Tartu, 2008), is a remarkable contribution to the research of manuscript book heritage, preserved in Estonia.
Linda Kask - The ELA Annual Meeting
An overview of the Association’s activities in 2008 was presented and the action plan for the year 2009 was approved at the ELA Annual Meeting. New Board members were elected. The ELA Annual Prize was also awarded that went to Saima-Õie Andla from Pärnu Central Library, as well as the ELA Prize for Merits that went to Krista Talvi from the National Library of Estonia.
An Estonian librarians’ inquiry toward the Parliament of Estonia, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Culture in the matters of the amendment to the Basic Schools and Upper Secondary Schools Act, concerning abating the number of Estonian language and literature lessons in schools.
Kai Idarand - Book is Power. Is E-Book, Too?
An overview of a speech meeting, “E-Book and Sheer Book”, organised by the ELA on the 27th of February 2009. It focused on the existence and availability of electronic publications in Estonian libraries and related problems.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
Ilme Sepp, Priit Kasepalu - The Meeting of Visually Impaired Readers in Haapsalu
The visually impaired booklovers of Lääne county celebrated the Read Aloud Day on the 24 th of October 2008 in Haapsalu with a conference. The thematics of the event covered Lääne county, libraries, the blind, visually impaired persons and literature.
Priit Kasepalu - A series of events, “Louis Braille 200”
The bicentenary of Louis Braille, a famous blind Frenchman who invented the system of writing for the blind that uses characters made up of raised dots, is celebrated in Estonia with a series of events that was launched on the 4th of January and continues up to the White Stick Day on the 15th of October.
Aiki Tibar - A Conference, “Information seeking in Context”, in Vilnius University
An overview of a conference of the researchers of information behavior, “Information Seeking in Context” (ISIC), held in Vilnius University from the 17 th up to the 19 th of September 2008.
NEWS
In memoriam: Viivi Müür (1938–2009) – a long-standing librarian, Head of Viljandi Regional Library from 1970 up to 1980.
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