Workshops
The conference concluded with 3 workshops
1. Cooperation of LLL organisations (libraries and other)
The cooperation with other organisations (schools, municipalities, training institutions, governmental agencies for training and/or regional development, etc) is crucial to achieve the highest impact. The extension of cooperation, not only with nearby educational institutions but, since tele-learning and e-learning are becoming more and more important, with distant educational institutions as well.
Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark and Veria Public Library, Greece
2. Learning Impact
Public libraries need to change their traditional way of thinking with regard to learning services, while library experts need to obtain complex skills so that they can carry on their activities efficiently.” “There is a strong political assumption, both implicit and explicit, that informal/non-formal learning organisations such as libraries have a vital job to do by supporting individual learners’ needs, providing them with choices and flexibility, helping people to continue and return to learning, enabling adults to get a job or qualification, signposting and inspiring people to take up other courses, helping children to learn and supporting schools in diversifying children’s experiences.;
Moderator: MLA, UK and Library Management Division, Lisbon Municipality, Portugal
Workshop 2 : Learning Impact
Workshop 2 : Learning Impact, Library Management Division, Lisbon Municipality, Portugal
3. Library 2.0 - libraries, literacy and learning in the knowledge society
Public libraries have the duty to help to reduce today’s digital divide that may become tomorrow’s ‘info-exclusion.’ As technologies evolve, making sure that the benefits of high-speed networks are available in rural as well as urban areas is becoming a policy priority. There are different uses and practices of ICT technologies and services provided by public libraries. The provision of ICT facilities and other web technologies without a good community educational programme would not succeed. To gain the best results, apart from providing the ICT and web facilities, one has to provide training in their use. Moreover, one must help European citizens understand why ICT is useful in their everyday lives.
Moderator: Acrosslimits, Malta, National Library Slovenia
Library 2.0 - libraries, literacy and learning in the knowledge society
Workshop 3 Report