Preliminary programme:

Thursday 11.8.2011

Hostess of the Day: Inkeri Näätsaari, Director of Libraries, Turku

Parking the Mobile Libraries by the River Aura 

9.00 Registration

11.30 Lunch 

13.00 Greetings: Aleksi Randell, Mayor of Turku

13.30  Pete Poskiparta, Mentalist

14.00 Lena Kingelin, PR coordinator, Turku 2011: Turku, European Capital of Culture 2011

14.30 Antero Kyöstiö: Finnish Mobile Libraries before 1961

15.00 Ilkka Mäkinen, Lecturer, University of Tampere: ''The history of the Finnish Mobile Libraries'', Release of the new book by Antero Kyöstiö

15.30 Coffee

17.00 Welcome party in the Turku City Library Garden

Elina Rantanen, Chairman of Culture Board, Turku

Jarmo Lindén, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Culture

19.00 Happy hours by the river Aura

19-22 Mobile Libraries open to the Public

Friday 12.8.2011

Hostess of the Day: Päivi Almgren, Senior adviser, Library affairs, Turku

10.00 Susanne Stökl: Mobile Libraries in Germany

10.45 Cai Jing, Senior PR Officer, KONE Elevators Co. Ltd: The Mobile Library Project in China (KONE Corporation Centennial Foundation)

11.30 Lunch

13.00 Roberto Soto Arranz, Manager, Diputación de León: Mobile Libraries in Spain

13.45 Antoinette van Zanten, Manager, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Netherlands: Multi Service Bus, Netherlands

14.30 Maria Vedenyapina, General Director, Pushkin Library Foundation: Russian Mobile Libraries

15.00 Julia Abramova, Manager, The Mayakovsky central Municipal Public Library: The Media Bus Project in St. Petersburg

15.30 Coffee

16-19 Mobile Libraries open to the Public

20.00 Festival Dinner

22.00 Festival celebration with music, dance etc

Saturday 13.8.2011

Host of the Day: Kalle Varila, Chief of Mobile Library, Turku

10.00 Anders Gistorp, Senior Librarian, Falkenberg Public Library: The Process of Creating Something New (The Swedish Mobile Library of the Year 2010)

10.45 Ian Stringer, MCLIP hon FCLIP: The Super British Mobile Library

11.30 Lunch

13.00 For Finnish Participants: the election of the new FLA workgroup for Mobile Libraries

13.30 Nuno Marcal, Mobile Librarian, Biblioteca Municipal de Proença-a-Nova - Portugal: Portuguese Mobile Libraries

14.00 The Project ''Good life in the rural areas'' from Denmark

14.30 Tiina Viik, Director of Libraries: The New Mobile Library Boat of Länsi-Turunmaa, Finland

15.00 Farewell
15.30 Coffee

Changes more than possible.

Abstracts

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