Preliminary Programme of the Symposium
October 22, Wednesday
15:00 Tour of the Main Building of the National Library of Russia (Sadovaya Street, 18)
October 23, Thursday
9:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Opening of the Symposium
Vladimir Zaitsev, Director General, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
Alla Yu. Manilova, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg
Andris Vilks, President of Bibliotheca Baltica, Director General, National Library of Latvia, Riga
10:30 Keynote Presentations
Moderator: Andris Vilks, President of Bibliotheca Baltica, Director General, National Library of Latvia, Riga
1. Kyrill Chistyakov, Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society, St. Petersburg
Viktor Ionov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
The Baltic Sea in a Changeable World
2. Ulla Ehrensvärd, National Library of Sweden, Stockholm
The History of Mapping the Baltic Sea Area
11:30 - Coffee Break
12:00 Selected Country Reports
Moderator: Vladimir Zaitsev, Director General, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
1. Lise Johannsen, Copenhagen City Library, Denmark
Status of Digitization Ventures in Denmark with Special Regard to Maps
2. Anda Juta Zalite, National Library of Latvia, Riga
Digitization of Latvian Maps: Praxis and Vision of the Future
13:00 - Photosession
13:15 - Lunch
14:00 Selected Country Reports
Moderator: Andris Vilks, President of Bibliotheca Baltica, Director General, National Library of Latvia, Riga
1. Liudmila Kildushevskaya, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
Maps of the Baltic Region in the Collections of the National Library of Russia
2. Vitalij Kaptsiug, St. Petersburg Society for Geodesy and Cartography, Russia
"The Struve Geodesic Arc" in the Baltic Geographical, Social and Cultural Areas
15:00 - Coffee Break
15:30 Section "Access and Preservation"
Moderator: Vladimir Zaitsev, Director General, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
1. Thor Dekov Buur, Copenhagen Public Libraries, Denmark
Maps on the Internet - How Users Can Enrich Existing Maps
2. Aleksei Andronov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia,
Edmundas Trumpa, Lathuanian University, Riga
Dialectological Maps of Baltic Languages as Milestones in the History of Science: Preservation and Accessibility
17:00 - Tours of the New Building of the National Library of Russia
19.00 - Reception
October 24, Friday
10:00 General Assembly and Workshop Discussion
Moderator: Andris Vilks, President of Bibliotheca Baltica, Director General, National Library of Latvia, Riga
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:30 Section "Information Loss and Gain"
Moderator: Gunnar Sahlin, Director, National Library of Sweden, Stockholm
1. Anna Kuklińska and Romualda Szura, National Library of Poland, Warsaw
History of the Baltic Sea Southern Shore: an Analysis of Shoreline Changes Based on the Old Maps from the National Library in Warsaw
2. Kai Ekholm, National Library of Finland, Helsinki
Finnish Panopticon: the Russian Control Commission and Story of the Maps Stalin Requested Back
12:30 Section "Processing"
Moderator: Gunnar Sahlin, National Library of Sweden, Stockholm
1. Olga Krasnikova, Library of the Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg,
Sergei Sementsov, St.-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
Russia
Cartographic Information Database "Saint Petersburg Region from the XVII to XXI centuries" at the Library of the Russian Academy of Science, and its Role in the Development of the Architectural Planning System of Saint Petersburg
2. Olga Barysheva, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
Digital Library — the Path through Countries and across Borders
13:30 - Lunch
14:30 Section "Cooperation"
Moderator: Liudmila K. Kildushevskaya, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
1. Wolfgang Kreft, Herder-Institute, Marburg, Germany
Digitizing the Collection of Historical Topographical City Maps — "Historisch-topographischer Atlas schlesischer Staedte" (Historical Topographical Atlas of Silesian Cities)
2. Steffi Mittenzwei, Berlin State Library — Prussian Cultural Heritage, Germany
Maps and Geodata in German Libraries and Archives
15:30 - Coffee Break
16:00 Final Discussion and Closing of the Symposium
Moderator: Juergen Warmbrunn, Director, Herder-Institue Library, Marburg, Germany
17:00 - Tours of the New Building of the National Library of Russia
October 25, Friday
10:00 - Tours of Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo.
