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The definition of a national policy, of an integrated creation and coordination strategy of an organizational center - schedule, in a national level, conduces determinatively to the evolution of the provided services and to the reinforcement of a nation's libraries. It includes the effectiveness of many partners who are involved in the knowledge area, playing its own role and contributing in a timely, valid and immediate help to the distance users, into a friendly interactive environment. The paper will focus on the cases of The National Library of Canada, The National Library of Australia, The Library of Congress and The Boston Public Library which are the pioneers worldwide in the coordinate and realistic carry out of two of the most important e-services, characterized by functional connectiveness and meditative joining, in their national librarianship framework. These two are: 1. e-learning 2. e-reference (supporting distance service provided by a net of libraries and skilled librarians) As it concerns the first two, the information gathering brought into effect, with the forwarding of the whole program from the project managers, and as for the two other libraries, by visiting them by myself, collecting the relevant material and after thorough exposition by the responsible staff. The electronic resources have been multiplied, the users need education in their navigation for accuracy, effectiveness and immediate necessities cover, immediacy and pertinence between the searches and the references. Especially, librarians should have the opportunity to act as tutors, as virtual tour leaders via email or videoconference. The National Library into an interactive and collaborative framework, with all other libraries,in a national level, especially the academic, as carriers of scientific knowledge, can boost the user' s convenience outlining their social national mission. Incorporating digital technology into a service of interdependence and interactivity, the librarian of a national, public, academic library, a museum1 s library, a gallery' s library, a library of every foundation that provides information, experience the encounter with the colleague and the user, doing his job with responsibility, facilitating access to knowledge. The challenge for the Greek librarian reality, with the proper adjustment to its particularities, is definitely obvious. We must not stay behind. Studying the structure and the needs of the Greek reality and taking under serious consideration the foreign examples, we can go ahead with proposals, actions and pilot applications. |
