WELCOME! LIDA 2001 LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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WELCOME!LIDA 2001LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

• Dubrovnik, Croatia 23 - 26 May 2001

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LIDA courses conferences

• Annual programs
• held in BEAUTIFUL Dubrovnik
• International forum for exchange learning
• Changing themes annually
• But steady purposes objectives

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LIDA purpose

• to address the changing and challenging
  environment for libraries and information systems
  and services in the digital age
• with an emphasis on examining contemporary
  problems, advances and solutions

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Rationale. Questions.

• Why?
• because of constant changes in the digital world
  all of us need a constant update of professional
  knowledge competencies
• Examine, explore, learn together
• Promises? Realities? Problems? Opportunities?
  Challenges? Pitfalls?

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Our LIDA 2001 themes The Internet ethics and
legal issuesInformation services - practice
and research
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Reminder LIDA 2000 themesLibraries on the
InternetInternet in Libraries
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Future LIDA 2002 themesIntegrating
information seeking information
retrievalInformation services in digital
environments- practice and research
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Issues

• What do libraries actually do in a digital
  environment? Internet?
• How do they do it?
• What could libraries do?
• What does the digital world actually do to
  libraries?
• to library USERS?
• How to change for the better?

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Digital age

• Environment exemplified by
• use of all kinds of records processes in
  digital forms
• transformation to digital forms
• digital networks for communication
• INTERNET

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Going from Internet basics

• A network of networks, bound by common technical
  standards
• nobody owns it
• nobody manages it - but many try
• Provides for communication, file transfers,
  cooperation
• Provides for World Wide Web,
• but it is more than the Web

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A major contemporary force

• Affecting and transforming
• societies on a global scale
• business, economy, commerce
• institutions, organizations, LIBRARIES
• how people work, communicate, cooperate how
  science works
• librarians, information professionals
• you, me, all of us

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But ...

• Internet is NOT a source of all information
• Many others are there are valuable
• Internet is not a savior for all information
  needs and requests
• Internet has many limitations
• technical, economic, social

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Major changes in libraries

• Affected through evolution of DIGITAL LIBRARIES
• Changes in nature of
• COLLECTION
• what is now a collection?
• ACCESS
• distributive, libraries without walls

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changes ...

• SERVICES
• many new models to various user groups
• COOPERATION
• new modes of sharing, consortia
• MANAGEMENT
• new management approaches, structures
• economics challenging, unsettling

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Needed new knowledge

• a new set of competencies
• firmly build upon old ones
• constant upgrade of knowledge skills
• constant improvement
• But provides
• new rewards opportunities
• reaching out to users more than ever

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Tradition

• Internet digital age do NOT mean abandoning
  library tradition values
• It means
• application of true tried principles values
  to new situations
• AND developing new ones

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Opportunities

• Basic ethical principles remain
• but now an opportunity to be extended to new
  modes of access
• In libraries new modes always meant new
  opportunities
• adjust, use, expand, innovate
• At the same time critically examine everything

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Enjoy the conference
Enjoy Dubrovnik!