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Support for Miraculous Nut Festival 2018

Every day brings us new evidence of how an inexhaustible fountain of ideas and imagination a child’s soul is. This was confirmed at the anniversary 10th annual of the Miraculous Nut Festival 2018 in the Municipal Library in Piešťany, which was subtitled “Book on Radio – Radio in the Book”. The festival is a competition in the dramatic performance of children aged 6-14. Part of the festival was also encounter of children with their parents and with educationists and library workers. The patronage of the festival was taken over by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic Livia Klausová, and the President of the Trnava region Jozef Viskupič.

We are very pleased to be able to support this event and have become its partner, because it is up to us adults, how do we listen to and help develop children’s imagination – the creator of the thinking, attitudes and emotional intelligence of forthcoming generation.

Elag confirmed our thought

On 4th-7th June 2018 we attended the ELAG 2018 International Conference at the National Technical Library. It was devoted to the data – the sources of knowledge, and what could be acquired from it. It is mainly knowledge, that can help us greatly in our work, and so we can provide users with better quality services in more effective way.

The first day was devoted to workshops – the participants had the opportunity to try different technologies and procedures used by colleagues from abroad to solve problems that we have encountered in our country. During the conference, we listened to very interesting contributions and discussions – colleagues dealt with issues of the effective integration of different sources of knowledge and related services so that the library continued being a single source of access to knowledge. We made sure that the development of the ARL platform went in the right direction – our users have been having access to different resources and services from one place, even from any mobile device. The central theme, therefore, was technology, that has been constantly shifting, and has changed the work of librarians very radically. Again, it was confirmed, that continuing education focusing on technologies and possibilities of their effective use in our work was extremely important, and we will have to pay much more attention to it.

https://www.elag2018.org/

INFORUM 2018

At the end of May, the 24th INFORUM conference on electronic information resources and their professional use in science, research, education and entrepreneurship took place in Prague. During its existence, it hosted a number of important lecturers. One of them is our executive Ing. Nadežda Andrejčíková, Ph.D. Her this year’s contribution, thirteenth in total, attracted many viewers. Then she was included in the “Hall of Fame” among other lecturers and moderators who attended the conference most of the time.

As the title of her presentation “The user is always at least the first” indikated, she focused on the current importance of library-information systems in libraries, the behavior of users in relation to their needs and the offer of libraries, etc. She highlighted the importance of electronic information resources, electronic documents and electronic servises, and emphasized the importance of developing and implementing information systems not separately, but in one platform, as a set of technologies, tools, resources, applications and services integrated together into one complex.

Take a look at the INFORA 2018 collection or photo gallery.

New installation of selfcheck

Further installation of RFID technology took place in Knihovna Kroměřížska in Kroměříž (www.knihkm.cz) and in the University Library of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (www.ukf.sk). A selfcheck was installed in both cases.

Archives, Libraries, Museums in the Digital World

Cosmotron actively participated at this year’s 18th Conference of Archives, Libraries, Museums in the Digital World. Our colleague L. Piškula spoke about preparedness of KIS for GDPR. The presentation is available to everyone, if you are interested in it, contact us at firma@cosmotron.cz.