Topic: Seventeenth Round Table on Free Access to Information is entitled as an Innovative Library in the Local Community Service. Although a library is often imagined as a place with books and computers, today's libraries are much more. They are often meaningful, and sometimes the only cultural centers in the city or the locality. They are places of special concern for the local cultural heritage, as well as places that can help local start ups. New technology, primarily internet and mobile telephony, enabled libraries to get out of their frames and to provide what was so far impossible for the residents of remote, rural and isolated communities. Library today operates in two fields: in its own space that strives to be as attractive and convenient as possible for different types of events, as well as organizing services outside its space for the users who are disabled to visit library and use its services in a standard way. Librarians must know local opportunities and needs, keep up with the development of new technologies they can count on, and also be creative to design new services. A central subject is divided into three sections: Library Cooperation with Institutions and Organisations in the Community, Community Interest Group Connecting, and Innovative Community Services.
Purpose: This Round Table is dedicated to new services, organized independently or in cooperation with other organisations and institutions in the local community, or services that helped gather certain population groups for common (cultural, bisiness, etc.) interest. Their purpose is to recognize and evaluate libraries as places where members of the local community can gather, converse, hear discourses, attend a music event or see an exibition.

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 National professional conference with international participation 13th Round Table on Mobile Libraries in the Republic of Croatia and the 7th Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries named „LET'S START A BIBLIOBUS! How to initiate and maintain a mobile library service?“, was held in Pula, on May 12th 2017, and was organised by the Commission for Mobile Libraries and the Commission for Public Libraries of the Croatian Library Association, City Library and Reading Room Pula as the host and Association of Istria librarians.

Location: Crikvenica 11.10. - 13.10.2017.

Organiser: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu

Coorganizer: Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo i Gradska knjižnica Crikvenica

Partner: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Ljubljani te Savez knjižničarskih društava Slovenije.
The theme of this year’s Conference spotlights the need for bringing together public libraries in a network that would facilitate the further development of digital library services and libraries’ presentation to the public (Mreža narodnih knjižnica – suradnja u razvoju digitalnih usluga i predstavljanju javnosti). The programme of the Conference will provide insight into various theoretical and practical issues concerning public libraries’ online services and viable models of connecting public libraries in the online environment, along with addressing issues concerning the strengthening of cooperation between public libraries in joint projects and their linking through a system of portals and dynamic websites at the national level. Examples of practice of libraries from other countries will also be presented and opportunities offered for establishing international cooperation.

Everyone interested in delivering their presentation at the Conference should submit their abstracts (e-mail:savjetovanje@nsk.hr) not later than 15 April 2017.

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 Commission for Mobile Libraries of the Croatian Library Associaton in cooperation with the Commission for Public Libraries of the Croatian Library Association and the Association of Istria librarians, with the City Library and Reading Room Pula as the host, are organising the 13th Round Table on Mobile Libraries in the Republic of Croatia and the 7th Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries named Let's start a bibliobus! How to initiate and maintain a mobile library service?

On this international professional conference, among Croatian lecturers, it was also announced the participation of interesting guests and lecturers from Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries, about a dozen mobile libraries from all around Croatia and from Slovenia (Maribor and Novo Mesto), Hugary (Pécs and Nyíregyháza) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bihać) will be presented. Bibliobus manufacturers from Slovenia (Fera avto Ltd.) and Croatia (Multipartner Ltd.) will present their products on the Conference.

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Venue: Hotel Excelsior, Lovran, 17 - 20.05. 2017.
Organiser: Croatian Library Association - Section of special and academic libraries
Co-organisers: National and University Library in Zagreb, University Library in Rijeka

Programme and organising committee: Nadica Avakumović, Edita Bačić (chair), Kristina Kalanj, Zagorka Majstorović, Marijana Mišetić, Tatiana Petrić, Senka Tomljanović, Vesna Špac, Zrinka Udiljak Bugarinovski.

About the conference
Working title: " Connection and cooperation : opportunities and challenges".
Conference will deal with following topics:

Part A: The position of library community in the system of culture, higher education and science.
Part B: Library as a mediator of scientific and professional information.
Part C: Libraries. Solidarity. Society.
Working mode: invited presentations, poster presentations, panel - discussions, workshops, round tables and accompanying program.

Deadline for participation with presentation is until 17 March 2017.
Deadline without presentation is to 15 April 2017.

Commission for Mobile Libraries of the Croatian Library Associaton in cooperation with the Commission for Public Libraries of the Croatian Library Association and the Association of Istria librarians with the City Library and Reading Room Pula as the host are organising the 13th Round Table on Mobile Libraries in the Republic of Croatia and the 7th Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries named Let's start a bibliobus! How to initiate and maintain a mobile library service?, which will be held in Pula, on Friday, May 12th 2017.
On this international professional conference, among Croatian lecturers, it was also announced the participation of interesting guests and lecturers from Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries, about a dozen mobile libraries from all around Croatia and from Slovenia (Maribor and Novo Mesto), Hugary (Pécs and Nyíregyháza) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bihać) will be presented.You can review the preliminary programme
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Date and venue: 12 to 15 October 2016, Hotel "Zora" Primošten
Organizer: Croatian Library Association
Co-organizers: The Librarian Association Šibenik, City Library "Juraj Šižgorić"
The main theme of the Assembly: Libraries: physical, virtual and legal spaces for services and users
Sub-themes of the Assembly: From hybrid to the digital library; Libraries as space and green library; Indicators for evaluating library; The relationship between libraries and founders; The work of Croatian regional library associations; Publishing activities of Croatian Library Association
Program Committee: Astrid Grobenski-Grgurić, Ljiljana Krpeljević, Dina Mašina, Marijana Mišetić, Mila Perasović, Irena Pilaš, Alka Stropnik, Zrinka Udiljak Bugarinovski, Danijela Živković
Organizing committee: Nada Avakumović, Melinda Grubišić Reiter, Dunja Holcer, Vilijam Lakić, Blaženka Peradenić-Kotur, Kristina Romić, Marija Šimunović, Vesna Špac

Programme of the Assembly

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Croatian Library Association's Committee for a mobile libraries in cooperation with the Commission for Public Libraries, Librarian Society of Bilogora, Drava and Kalnik Region and Public Library „Petar Preradović“ Bjelovar organizing 12th Round Table on Mobile Libraries in Croatia and 6th Festival of Croatian Mobile Libraries - Bibliobus is coming! Mobile libraries as a part of the library network.

At this upcoming international conference, except Croatian lecturers, there will be interesting lecturers and guests from Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia. On the Festival of Croatian mobile libraries will also be presented about ten mobile libraries from different parts of Croatia as well as the new mobile library from Pecs, Hungary. (more)

Dear col­lea­gue,
We would like to invite you to con­tri­bute to the 14th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2015).

ISI 2015 is a bian­nual gathe­ring of scho­lars, rese­ar­chers and stu­dents from infor­ma­tion sci­ence from Europe and beyond who share a com­mon inte­rest in cri­ti­cal infor­ma­tion issues in con­tem­porary society. The con­fe­rence series ori­gi­na­ted in the German-language infor­ma­tion sci­ence com­mu­nity but has become more and more inter­na­tio­nal in recent years. This time, ISI 2015 will take place in Zadar, Croatia, from May 19 - 21, 2015 and will be co-organized by the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar and the German Academic Association for Information Science (Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft e. V.), in asso­cia­tion with the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Below and at www.isi2015.eu please find more detailed infor­ma­tion about the conference.
If you have any ques­ti­ons, please do not hesi­tate to con­tact us. We are looking for­ward your contribution.

With kind regards,
Franjo Pehar (head of orga­ni­sa­tion com­mit­tee) & Christian Schloegl (head of pro­gramme committee)

39th Croatian Library Association General Conference and Assembly will be held in Split, from 15th to 18th of October 2014. It will be organized by Croatian Library Association.
Conference theme: Libraries – missions and strategies (opširnije)