Here HIBOLIRE informs about the project’s own events up to 2009. For more recent events, check the News-page.
- HIBOLIRE was one the organizers of Book Culture from Below - The 18th Annual SHARP Conference. Several members of HIBOLIRE gave presentations during the conference. For more information on the programme as well images from the conference, check the conference homepage.
- Walking Seminar on the Good Book, the Good Library and Good Reading
HIBOLIRE in cooperation with the Swedish School of Library and Information Science arranged a Walking Seminar on the Good Book, the Good Library and Good Reading in Simrishamn and Haväng at the Southeast Coast of Sweden May 17-19 2010. Twelve HIBOLIRE-members took part in the seminar. Before the seminar the participants presented ideas on articles of the theme of the seminar. These ideas were discussed during walks along the shore and summing up discussions. After the seminar full articles will be written and published. For more information contact: Magnus.Torstensson[at]hb.se - Hibolire publication: Library Spirit in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Historical perspectives
Photos from the book release
What is the historical explanation for the birth of the best public libraries in the world? Library Spirit in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Historical perspectives gives a row of answers. It presents the development of public libraries in the Nordic and Baltic countries from their historical roots until the present day. This is the first time libraries in this vast area covering a large part of the globe are presented together.
The book can be ordered (price 17 Euros) from the net bookshop Granum - A seminar Library Spirit in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 1909 – 2009, arranged in Copenhagen in December 14-15 2009, was the 2nd seminar in honor of the agitator and pioneer of establishing free public libraries in Denmark and the Nordic countries, Andreas Schack Steenberg (14. 12. 1854 – 27. 1. 1929).
The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark and The Nordic Council of Ministers co-operated with Hibolire for the arrangements of the seminar. The main purpose was to present the book Library Spirit in the Nordic and Baltic Countries – Historical Perspectives (2009).
- The 18th international conference devoted to book science, Book and Media Science: Research, Researchers, Communication, was held at the conference hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 22–23 October 2009. The event was organized by the Institute of Book Science and Documentation from the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University. As with previous conferences, assistance was provided by HIBOLIRE and, this year for the first time, by the Department of the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The programme of the conference is available as a pdf-file.
- The year 2009 started with a doctoral workshop Books as material objects, books in space, books in movement. Tampere Summer School of the HIBOLIRE Network
Tampere, June 4-5, 2009
Workshop papers:
Dr. Ilkka Mäkinen: Opening of the Summer School
Keynote Speaker Dr. Lotte Hellinga: Histories of the book, old and new, and what they have in common
Senior Paper 1 by Wolfgang Undorf: A book is a book is a book: Multiple books - case studies and general thoughts
Senior Paper 2 by Alma Braziniune: Private library as the object of research in book science and librarianship
Doctoral Student Paper 1 by Rima Ciceniene: Culture of manuscripts in Grand Duchy of Lithuania. XIV-the middle of the XVI Centuries
Doctoral Student Paper 2 by Asko Tamme: Estonian Year of the Book 1935
Senior Paper 3 by Nan Dahlkild: Nordic library architecture in the Twentieth Century: The emergence of the Scandinavian style
Doctoral Student Paper 3 by Pentti Mehtonen: Discourse on library buildings in the Finnish professional press after the Second World War. A preliminary research plan
Keynote Speaker Prof. Alistair Black: Books, buildings and social engineering: Early public library buildings in Britain from past to present
Doctoral Student Paper 4 by Johanna Lilja: The influence of politics on the exchange networks of Finnish learned societies in 1919-1939
Doctoral Student Paper 5 by Marita Paas: Estonian devotional literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Research plan
Minna Ahokas: Information about the SHARP Helsinki Conference 2010
Doctoral Student Paper 6 by Outi Vuorenrinne: Liberalization of book selection in Finnish public libraries in the 1960s-1970s
Doctoral Student Paper 7 by Jolita Steponaitiene: Modernisation of Lithuanian book during the Press Ban period (end of the 19th century)
Doctoral Student Paper 8 by Jorma Niemitalo: Thesis project on the history of book-bindings - The year 2008 ended with a workshop Library Spirit in the Baltic-Nordic Region, held at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University College of Borås, November 27-28 2008. Following presentations were given:
Key note speaker Sven-Eric Liedman: “Bildung” and “Volksbildung” – historical background (see: http://www.hum.gu.se/~idewww/liedman/html/frame.htm)
Ilkka Mäkinen and Magnus Torstensson: On HIBOLIRE and the book project
Zivile Zavadskyte-Zakarauskiene: The Topic of the Book Trade in Publications of Lithuanian Book Scientists
Ineta Sibrian: Culture of Reading Formation in Lithuanian Public Libraries (1918-1990)
Discussion on Arvydas Pacevicius' article: Genesis, essentiality and the idea of Public Library in Lithuania
Ilkka Mäkinen: On Finland's and Åland's public libraries and their history
Magnus Torstensson and Joacim Hansson: presentation on Swedish history of public libraries
Laura Skouvig: Library Spirit: The construction of a vocation for Danish librarianship
Martin Dyrbue: TBA
Discussion on Nan Dahhlkild's article: Public libraries' history on Faraoe Islands and Greenland
Aile Möldre and Tiiu Reimo: Books that Common People Read: Estonian Public Libraries Through Centuries
Jana Dreimane: Public libraries in Latvia in the 20th century
Discussion on Lis Byberg's article: A short history of Norwegian public libraries and ‘how they got that way’
Discussion on Kristin H. Pétursdóttir's and Stefania Júliusdóttir's article: The history of public libraries in Iceland
The presentations of the workshop are prepared for publishing during 2009.
- With the Department of History at the University of Helsinki, Hibolire arranged a workshop 50 Years since L'apparition du livre in 16 October 2008. The programme.
- The international conference of book science Martynas Jankus: the press of national renaissance and the workers of press (For 150th anniversary of Martynas Jankus) was held at the Vilnius University, September 25-27 2008. More information at the conference website
- Hibolire was one of the arrangers for SHARP's first regional conference in the Nordic countries, the Published Words, Public Pages - SHARP Copenhagen: a Nordic conference of International Print Culture, held at The Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science at Copenhagen, Denmark in September 10-12 2008. See Conference information
- Hibolire arranged on October 31st 2007 a doctoral workshop in Helsinki under the theme Possession and Distribution of Books. The workshop was arranged in conjunction with the decennial Jubilee Seminar of the
Finnish Book Historical Association on November 1st – 2nd 2007. See the Jubilee Seminar program.
Workshop Presentations:
Key note speaker Lis Byberg (Oslo University College): Dissemination of Books and Ideas in 18th Century Norway
Signe Jantson (Tallinn University): Forms of book trade in Estonia 1865–1940
Wolfgang Undorf (National Library of Sweden): Possession and Distribution of Printed Books in Scandinavia before the Reformation
Helena Strömquist-Dal (University of Lund): Bookbinding and Reading Practises - Technical and Material Changes in Swedish Bookbinding Culture around
Rene Haljasmäe (Estonian Academy of Arts, Cultural Heritage and Restoration): Incunabula in Estonian Libraries and Their Origin
Asko Tamme (Tartu Public Library/Tallinn University): Estonian Public Library Discourse in the 20th Century
Mats Dolatkhah (University College of Borås): Books in Times of Change: Rationales of the Public Library - Hibolire participated in the conference Making Connections Between Library, Book, Reading and Information History, hosted by the Innovation North: Faculty of Information and Technology Leeds Metropolitan University, on June 7-8 2007.
- The first Hibolire Summer School History of Books, Libraries and Reading in the Baltic Sea Region was held on 8th - 10th of June 2006, at the University of Tallinn, Estonia. The Summer School gathered together for the first time PhD students and established researchers of the Hibolire network, who all are doing research on the history of books, libraries and reading in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
- International Conference Book Science in Lithuania and the Countries around the Baltic Sea from
1918 until the End of the Second World War was held on the 29th - 30th
September 2006 at The Institute of Book Science and Documentation, Vilnius University, Lithuania. The conference jubilated the 65th anniversary of the Department of Bibliology at Vilnius
University (1940-1943).
- Hibolire collected the session Underground in the Periphery of the Russian Empire I and other presentations for the international conference Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin on the 27th - 29th of July 2006. The full programme of the conference arranged by the Wissenschaftszentrum's Research Group Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization in Europe is available as well as a report of the conference.
