Presentations

Session 1: Users and Content

• Abdelaziz Abid
  UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
  Using Digital Libraries: A Chance or a Nightmare?
• Andris Vilks
  The National Library of Latvia
  The physical and digital national library: Vision and reality
• Dr. Wolfram Neubauer
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  From Library Catalogues to Knowledge Portals

Session 2: Users and Content

• Dr. Ching-chih Chen
  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College (USA)
  How Digital Libraries Can Bring the World's Treasures and Heritage to the End-Users Instantly!
• Dr. Gunnar Sahlin
  The National Library of Sweden
  Swedish National Library - challenges in the digital age
• Vigdis Moe Skarstein
  The National Library of Norway
  The Digital National Library - Strategies for the preservation and distribution of knowledge and culture in the National library of Norway
• Uldis Straujums
  The National Library of Latvia
  Structure and management of digital library to support learning environment

Session 3: Users and Content

• Tiiu Valm
  Vice-Chair of The European Library; The National Library of Estonia
  Libraries and social dilemma: libraries transforming
• Dr. Dusan Katuscak
  Slovak National Library
  Projects of the Slovak National Library and intentions for the use of digital content
• Adolf Knoll
  National Library of the Czech Republic
  ENRICH: creation of a European digital library of manuscripts
• Katarzyna Slaska
  National Library of Poland
  The Polona National Digital Library as a tool of learning

Session 4: Users and Content

• R. Arwel Jones
  The National Library of Wales
  An End to Digitisation
• Pavils Zarins
  Stanford University (USA)
  Finding Solutions to E-book Challenges
• Sandis Kolomenskis
  Microsoft Latvia
  Innovative libraries for the 21^st century society
• Andrejs Vasiļjevs
  Software Developer Tilde Ltd. (Latvia)
  Integration of encyclopedic and linguistic digital resources in an integrated online educational resource

Session 5: Data Organization and Structure

• Michael Emly
  Leeds University (UK)
  Multimedia repositories in learning and teaching - lessons from the MIDESS project
• Paul Doorenbosch
  Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
  New architecture, new services: the changing role of the National Library of the Netherlands in Internet information
• Elena L. Krepkova
  All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature
  The LFL Digital Library
• Daniel V. Pitti
  University of Virginia (USA)
  From Cultural Heritage to Education: The Role of Metadata