Activity report for 1996(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

Library of the Academy of Sciences - $ 2,952.24National Children’s Library “I.Creanga” - $ 1,566.93Republican Library for Technicaland Scientific Information - $ 2,000.00“I.Mangher” Municipal Jewish Library - $ 991.51Expenditures: $ 10,242.21“ ASLIB: Library Automation Systems” was organisedfor 21 librarians (invited expert - Lyn Robinson,ASLIB Association).Different projects of seminars, presented by librariesand the Librarians Association from Moldova weresupported:SUBSCRIPTIONS TO NATIONAL PERIODICALSSubscriptions to the cultural journals “Contrafort”,“Basarabia” and “Sud-Est” (385 copies each) havebeen distributed to public libraries.Expenditures: $ 5,577.95Library Managementorganised by “I.Creanga” Chldren’ s Library, Chisinau.Special guest lecturer- Dr. Ronald F.Chapman ofHamilton Library, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.80 librarians participated at the seminar.Librarians and Community ServiceLibraries and the World’s MemoryBOOK AQUISITIONBooks were bought, following the librarians suggestions,such as encyclopedical literature, teachingmaterials, textbooks and other literature in Romanian.Within the program 57 titles were bought in more than5000 copies. The donation was distributed to 77public, schools’ and university libraries.Expenditures: $ 12,528.80The program suported librarians‘ participation atdifferent international meetings:The 62nd Conference of the International Federationof Association of Libraries and Librarians organisedby UNESCO, Beijing, ChinaLidia CULICOVSCHI, Director, Municipal Library“B.P.Hasdeu”Silvia GHINCULOV, Director, Library of the Academyof Economic StudiesTotal Expenditures: $ 23,350.71TRAINING AND WORKSHOPSLibrary and Information Science was missing fromthe priorities established by the Socialist State, thesingle sponsor of the vast range of municipal andinstitutional libraries. Following the Soviet period theworsening economic situation prevented the librarycommunity from developing an adequate professionalstandard. Librarians are people, failing to establishthemselves in other fields, interested in literature butignorant of the profession. Training and workshopssought to revitalize this community. Selectedprofessionals, current with the latest developmentsof library and information science, were brought here,establishing connections with foreign communitiesof librarians and by encouraging Moldovan librariansto develop their own information exchange forums.Within the Regional Workshop Program, the seminarAmerican Library Association’s Annual Conference,New York, USANatalia GHERADI, Deputy Director, Library of theAcademy of Economic StudiesLibrarians and Associations in the Transient World :New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation,Foros, UkraineClaudia BALABAN, Director, Children’s Library “IonCreangã”, Tudor SPINEI , Director, Library of SUMInternational Conference on Library Automation inCentral and Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungaryparticipants - 5 specialistsAttendance at the meeting in memory of Onisifor Ghibu,Sibiu, Romania.Participants 10 personsWithin this program English Language courses werea c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 37