Libraries IN Lithuania: PROJECTS AND TRENDS Gražina Lamanauskienė Ministry of Culture of Republic of Lithuania grazina.lamanauskiene@lrkm.lt

Public Library system 1.257 municipal public libraries 60 main libraries 128 urban branches 12 children‘s branches 1.057 rural branches (60 of them are joint with school libraries) 84 % of public libraries are situated in rural areas

„Libraries for innovation 2“ 13.248 people participate in training: ICT training – 7.709 Professional/business – 3.359 Creative industries – 1.076 Personal development – 477 Other (spec. children and similar) – 627 22.143 participated in labs Personal development – 6.599 Creative industries – 6.542 IT – 6.058 Professional/business – 356 Other – 2.588 Libraries in total organized 1.190 events, around 40.000 people participated in these events.

„Libraries for innovation 2“ 91 new/upgraded services were developed, for example: Psychological support (psychologist in the library, tailored games to help children for children with social/psychological issues); Non-formal training (various clubs, online training services, Interactive language training); Mobile labs/ IT centers (Broadcasts to village libraries, mobile 3d printer/tab/computer labs etc.); Creative and IT development labs (Photo/ video/ audio creative labs, comics lab, 3d modeling/printing labs) 215 products developed (methodologies, websites, applications, games, videos etc.) Increased volunteer activities and increased partner events in libraries.

Strategic directions of the library development 2016–2022 The directions are aimed to promote structural dialogue at the level of the library system and state administration and to ensure interactivity and compatability of the activities based on the values of smart society, smart economy and smart management. The strategic goal of the directions is to pursue effective use of the potential of libraries, as effective information infrastructure, by ensuring development of lifelong learning for society members, social and economic welfare and increase of the impact on the national and regional development

impact on the national and regional development Strategic directions 2016–2022 libraries for SOCIAL–economic welfare LIBRARIES FOR SUsTAiNABLE DEVELOPMENT libraries for LEARNING The strategic goal of the directions is to pursue effective use of the potential of libraries, as effective information infrastructure.  IDENTITY PURPOSE to strengthen the activities of training/ learning cultural and information competences and literacy PURPOSE to enhance library communities PURPOSE to improve management of libraries tapatumas dialogue objectives to increase diversity, accessibility, quality of non-formal education services; integrate the library resources and services into formal education processes to modernize physical and virtual environment to activate reading promoting initiatives to develop services actualising the cultural heritage objectives to develop and regularly update ICT infrastructure of libraries to increase diversity, accessibility and quality of public electronic services to ensure reduction of social exclusion and social integration of people with disabilities to develop information knowledge infrastructure objectives to implement of result-oriented management systems in libraries to develop the system of library specialists' training to promote collection of information resources of quality contents to strengthen representation and interinstitutional partnership of libraries smart society smart economy smart management Formation and satisfying the needs of the society

2016 − the Year of Libraries Resolution No. XII-1461 of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania of 16 December 2014 Purpose was to improve attractiveness of the image of libraries to society and social partners, to highlight advantages of the library network, to reveal the potential of the development of multimedia services provided by libraries and their benefits for society.

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