Citation
(2003), "PULMAN Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 37 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/prog.2003.28037aab.008
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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PULMAN Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
PULMAN – Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations) is responsible for policy co-ordination in the European Commission funded PULMAN (Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks) network, which stimulates and promotes the sharing of policies and practices in the digital era in local and regional public libraries, archives, museums and other cultural organisations. PULMAN will culminate in a high level policy conference in Oeiras, Portugal, 13-14 March 2003.
The PULMAN network currently reaches across 26 European countries. But the network is expanding. The European Commission has recently approved an extension called PULMAN XT. This means that Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine will join the PULMAN network.
One of the goals of PULMAN XT is to establish mentoring and twinning arrangements between good library services in the PULMAN XT countries and centres of excellence in the rest of Europe. This task is co-ordinated by Helsinki City Library.
EBLIDA will broker mentoring and twinning arrangements between library associations across the European professional network in order to establish professional knowledge exchange activities. The interest of EBLIDA is to encourage the development of strong library associations and a dynamic profession in the emerging democracies, thus strengthening the European library community.
This includes undertaking a needs analysis of the situation in the countries, defining knowledge-exchange programmes between the professional communities, enabling the exchange of information about management practices, tools and services, thus furthering wider European integration.
EBLIDA was established in 1992 as a non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organisation representing libraries on a European level. Subjects on which EBLIDA concentrates are culture, copyright, information society-related matters and information technology.
For further information please contact: Teresa Hackett, Director, EBLIDA, PO Box 43300, NL-2504 AH, The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 (70) 309 0608; Fax: +31 (70) 309 0708; E-mail: eblida@nblc.nl; URL: www.eblida.org