The centenary conference “21st Century Libraries: Traditions and Innovations“
On the occasion of its centenary, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is organizing an international research conference. At the conference’s main session, Prof. Luiz Oosterbeek, UNESCO Chairholder in Humanities and Cultural Integrated Landscape Management, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, and Secretary-General of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) will share his insights and experience regarding critical reasoning and flexibility; Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian of the British Library will speak about collaborating to advance knowledge and mutual understanding among librarians, partners and leaders; and Dr. Jānis Krēsliņš, Senior Academic Librarian for Research Affairs at the National Library of Sweden, will be giving the presentation “Memory in a Time of Digital Inattentiveness: an Institutional Perspective”.
The conference’s introductory presentation “Life Library as a Model” will be given by the Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas. In the words of the National Library’s executive, the impressive anniversary of the Library presents a favourable opportunity to evaluate the gained experience and continue the Library’s success story during the second century of its existence with new energy and ideas.
Among the participants of the Discussion, there will be the executives of three national libraries: the Director General of the National Library of Estonia Janne Andresoo, the Director General of the National Library of Poland Dr. Tomasz Makowski and the Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas, and the Vice Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Ingrida Veliutė. The participants will be discussing on issues regarding the importance of partnerships and their potential, the impact of change of spaces within buildings on the origination of new activities and the news from the life of the professional communities from the neighbouring countries and their vision of the developments of libraries in the 21st century. The Discussion will be moderated by the musicologist Gerūta Griniūtė.