Lifelong reading/Keynote speaker: BARBRO WIGELL-RYYNÄNEN
(Library Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki, Finland)
The National Year of Reading: a case study of librarians as
key partners in empowering communities and building a nation of readers/ CAROLYNN
RANKIN (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom)
Promoting inter-generational literacy: the case of Gayaza
Family Learning Resource Centre (GFLRC) programme in Central Uganda where
mothers read and write with their children/ NAPAGI AUGUSTINE TIMOTHY (Gayaza
Family Learning Resource Centre, Kampala, Uganda)
Educating librarians for literacy and building community/ WALLACE
KOEHLER (Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA)
Libraries promoting intergenerational dialogue – discussion/
IVANKA STRICEVIC (Croatia)
Main factors behind the good PISA reading results in Finland/
PIRJO SINKO (Finnish National Board of Education, Helsinki, Finland)
Joint efforts to improve reading education: cooperative
projects between public libraries and schools in the Norwegian School Library
Program/ SIRI INGVALDSEN (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway)
Together for the future - Ritaharju Community Centre/ PIRKKO
LINDBERG and TUIJA POLO-KORET (Oulu City Library, Oulu, Finland)
Filling the blanks: articulations between public and school
libraries to guarantee quality education in Argentina/ GRACIELA PERRONE,
CAROLINA PINELA, SOLANA NOCETI, GUADALUPE GÓMEZ and PABLO GUERRA (National
Teacher's Library (BNM), Argentina)
A study on the cooperation between public libraries and
elementary schools in Taiwan/ HAO-REN KE and YEN WEN (Graduate Institute of
Library & Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei,
Taiwan, China)
Empowering people for life: Vantaa-Windhoek library project/
RITVA NYBERG (Vantaa City Library, Vantaa, Finland) and TRUDY GEISES (Division
of Community Services, Windhoek, Namibia)
Knowledge management is in public libraries/ CLAUDIA LUX
(Central and Regional Library Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
External knowledge inflow by open innovation in public
libraries/ URSULA GEORGY (Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Köln,
Germany)
Knowledge management in theory and practice: case Raahe City
Library/ TERHI MUSTAKANGAS (Oulu University of Applies Sciences, Oulu, Finland)
Managing knowledge capital in public libraries for a
knowledge-driven socioeconomic environment/ PETROS A. KOSTAGIOLAS (Ionian
University, Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Corfu, Greece)
Youth202: an experiment in teen-driven knowledge management
at an urban American public library/ REBECCA HOPE RENARD (DC Puplic Library,
Washington DC, USA)
Improving fiction literature access by linked open data
-based collaborative knowledge storage - the BookSampo project/ EETU MÄKELÄ,
KAISA HYPÉN and EERO HYVÖNEN (Aalto University, Department of Media
Technology/Turku City Library, Espoo/Turku, Finland)
Journey into imagination – a glimpse of the history of
Finnish children's literature/ PIRKKO ILMANEN (Entresse Library, Espoo City
Library, Espoo, Finland) and MARJUKKA PELTONEN (Tapiola Library, Espoo,
Finland)
Outreach to vulnerable youth in Africa through partnerships
for innovative programming: The Lubuto Library Project/ JANE KINNEY MEYERS
(Lubuto Library Project, Washington DC, USA)
The living book/ JIM HØJBERG (Vejle Public Library, Vejle,
Denmark)
"Sense and Sensibility": "Blended living and
learning" in children’s libraries as places of virtual, social, sensual,
esthetic and creative experiences – including practical examples from Germany/ SUZANNE
BRANDT (Büchereizentrale Schleswig-Holstein, Flensburg, Germany)
My mission is to listen: read to a dog but not just any dog/ RAISA ALAMERI (Sello Library, Espoo City Library, Espoo,
Finland)
Ebooks: has a content divide replaced the digital divide?/ Keynote
speaker: PATRICK LOSINSKI (Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
A new mobile approach: peer-to-peer loaning using
smartphones/ HEINI OIKKONEN and TIMO TUOMINEN (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki,
Finland)
Danish Digital Library powered by "TING" - about
Open Source and joined efforts in public libraries/ ROLF HAPEL (Citizens'
Services and Libraries, Aarhus Kommune, Aarhus, Denmark)
The library as an online community touch-point/ ELAINE NG
(National Library Board Singapore, Singapore)
How access to ICTs in public libraries make an impact:
Findings from the Global Impact Study and how you can use them for advocacy/ MELODY
CLARK and CHRIS COWARD (Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA),
University of Washington, Seattle, USA)