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 - 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 - 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 - 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 21st century society - Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Software Developer Tilde Ltd. (Latvia)
Integration of encyclopedic and linguistic digital resources in an integrated online educational resource - 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