The Skype Discussion "Libraries in the United States of America and in Ukraine" was held at the Window on America Center in Lutsk.

 

 

 

On Wednesday, March 28^th  in the framework

 of the pilot project the Skype discussion was

 held at the Window on America Center in Lutsk.

 

The topic of discussion was Libraries in the United States of America and in Ukraine.

The speaker on the topic of Libraries was

 Jurij Dobczanskyj, Senior Cataloging Specialist

 at the U.S. Library of Congress.

 19 visitors (among them students and two teachers of Volyn college of Art, librarians of Volyn Research Library) came to the Center on that day to have a live talk with Mr. Dobczanskyj. The visitors introduced themselves and discussed professional issues, voiced their thoughts and asked questions on that topic.

During one hour Skype discussion the present audience could learn more about the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world and America's oldest federal cultural institution, its services and cooperation with clients, principles of library fund creation and updates, etc.

The Skype discussion allowed the audience to interact with the American colleague, to get profound answers on the following questions:

• Place of the Library in community life;
• Computer technologies in modern library.

After a talk with Jurij Dobczanskyj the present audience was proposed to watch the video about the Library of Congress, the organization of the automation and information in the Library, managing the electronic library collection. The slide show presentation about the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections, made by the Window on America Center coordinator Olena Pyshniuk was designed to acquaint the visitors with enhancement of services for the readers, including those with disabilities and Ask a Librarian Service in the Library.

The meeting theme – to discuss a topic of Libraries in the USA and in Ukraine and to discover the place of library in community life – was successfully achieved.

The conference was videotaped so everyone can visit WOA Center Blog http://woalutsk5.blogspot.com/ and find it at the Video Bar.