Thematic Areas

Developing new services

Use of international infrastructures and available information technology for the development and provision of new services or new patterns of conventional services to the end user (e.g. patterns and access tools for conventional catalogues, library loans, etc). The incorporation of libraries to the functional flow of user communities, adoption of new roles (e.g. development and content production, publications, etc.), as well as introducing a new support concept for educational processes.

Developing collections and managing hybrid materials

Policy and management issues, deriving from hybrid material forms in a modern library. Uniform confrontation of problems deriving from different material formats (e.g. localisation, local management, exploitation). Competence of old models and management tools management, new developments and conferencing.

Material processing: Old and new tools: development, parallel use, and convergences

Old tools and new publishing forms. Development and adaptation of old tools and new forms of material processing. Parallel use of tools. Special forms of processing digital materials. Policy and approaches for selecting forms, tools and methods per material category.

Development of digital collections and conventional material digitalization management. Policy and problems of digital material maintenance.

Examining digital collections' management in the context of conventional libraries. Cohabitation problems in regard to conventional materials (differences of approach, treatment and utilization). Access management and copyright. Developing autonomous digital library collections. Digitalization policy and strategy. Implementation experience: Problems and solutions. Theoretical approach to the choice criteria conserning material digitalization. Economic, technical and legal opinions. Digitalization in the service of maintenance: Theoretical approaches and practical applications. Digital materials maintenance problems: Variety and multiversity of the types of materials and their problems. Maintenance possibilities and prospects as a criterion for developing digital collections.

Libraries and Education

New forms of library integration to all educational levels. Exploiting new material forms and technologies of information for expending and differentiating library functionality related to educational processes. New service forms, products and support tools for educational needs.

Intellectual rights

Management access to local collections and cooperative efforts. Copyright management. Greek and international law, common practices and foreign experiences.

Central strategies and library collaboration

Public and central policies. Criteria and methodology for configuring and mapping out common policies. Consortia and relative experiences. Policies and approaches for the central and cooperative choice of forms, tools and methods of access, material treatment and access. Developing collaborations among Greek libraries