Panel disscussion knowledge and skills, discussion 27

What knowledge and skills should be acquired as part of the higher

education, to promote cooperation between the Poles and Lithuanians

discussion

IDEAReview existing programmes and make list of new

classes, specialization(s)/Master's Programmes,, teaching metohods, forms of education for information science professionals that would allow implementation of various projects/information cmapaigns/acitivities in information centers, libraries and archives.

The focus of those projects would be understanding and empowering cooperation between Poles and Lithuanians.

GOALWe should make ourselves aware of the fact that the cooperation between LT and PL is needed and ensure we understand why.

We should equip ourselves with knowledge about existing problems, about our respective cultures.

We should arm ourselves with skills that would help us achive that goal.

That knowledge will be used in our work as professionals in libraries, archives, information centers, organizations and anywhere else where it's needed.

What is already happening – Poland

What is already happening - Polandinternational week

ISSS

Cooperation between Department of General Linguistics, East Asian Comparative Linguistics and Baltic Studies and respective faculty at Vilnius University in Vilnius (and with University of Latvia in Riga).

Branch of the University of Bialystok „Faculty of Economics and Informatics”! It is officialy on the list of Lithuanian higher education facilities

What is already happening - PolandDifficult relations – Poland&Lithuania: publication in English

made by Scientific Club from LIS UW and by students form Vilnius University Faculty of Communication Student Science Association (VU KF SMD)

The primary goal was to create scientific pulication that shows analysis of bonds and similarities that exist between Poland and Lithuania: cultural, economic, scientific, demographic etc.

It was said it’s necessary to establish cooperation with Vilinus Uniersity and representantion form their student associations, to establish cooperation with Polish emabssy in Lithuania and with Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency.

The work is in progress

What is already happening – Lithuania

What is already happening – Lithuania

• ISSS

• Difficult relations – Poland&Lithuania: publication in English made by Scientific Club from LIS UW and by students form Vilnius University Faculty of Communication Student Science Association (VU KF SMD)

• Branch of the University of Bialystok „Faculty of Economics and Informatics„! That is officialy on the list of Lithuanian higher education facilities

What else is happening?

Points from discussion

What can be done?

What can be done?

optional vs. obligatory classes (point for discussion) cooperation between LIS and

Department of General Linguistics, East Asian Comparative Linguistics and Baltic Studies (language,

knowledge, conferences – LIS professionals about , joint classes?)

promote the idea of cooperation across UW (mirrored in Lithuania?)

What can be done?

promote internships in Lithuania and Poland start exchanges with Vilinus University?

(language barrier) organize webinars in English were participants

from both countries could talk and exchange ideas

start wiki projects for LIS students in both countries (as part of some classes – coordinate

programmes)

What can be done?

start translating programmes to Lithuanian and Polish

start translating websites to Lithuanian and Polish(and the other way around)

international week – start co-operating with Lithuania

What can be done?

Teach students about their neighbors' library network

- how it works, how it looks (the similarities, the differences)

- Is there legal deposit there? Give examples of good, interesing Lithuanian and

Polish libraries (respectively) – 'cause why not?- same as above: archives, information centers (and

other institutions we can think of)

Discussion points

Classes – optional vs. obligatory Master's programme? Webinars – what do you think about those? Wiki projects – about what? How we can utilize the gained

knowledge in the future - or current - work?

Classes

conclusions from discussion

Master’s programme?

conclusions from discussion

Webinars

conclusions from discussion

Wiki projects

conclusions from discussion

In our future work...

How we can utilize the gained knowledge in the future or current work?

Summarization

Thank you very much!

To all participants and

audience

This project was co-financed from:

Orlen Lietuva

Polsko-Litewski Fundusz Wymiany Młodzieży

Fundacja Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views neither of the Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji nor Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej.