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Session Plan
THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTARY
LIBRARIES IN ENHANCING DEMOCRACY IN THE
DIGITAL AGE
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Working sessions will be divided into general session (Session 1),
core sessions (Session 2,3,4) and final session (Session 5).
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Core sessions will consist of presentations by four to six member
libraries followed by discussions by all the participants. Each presentation is
limited to within fifteen minutes. Each session will be devoted to country
reports.
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Member libraries will be requested to present their countries’
situation and approach to the theme. To make the discussions fruitful and
concentrated some sub-themes and key words have been selected and offered for
possible use by the member libraries. They are to be taken as suggestions only
and the member libraries do not necessarily have to include every sub-theme in
their reports.
THEMES FOR THE PAPER PRESENTATIONS
1.
To what extent have the Parliamentary Libraries become digitalized?
How digital are we?
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Why are we digitalizing?
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Where are we in digitalization? (the state
of infrastructure, the present condition and on-line and off-line media)
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Why are we on the net? New opportunities
and challenges,
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Websites of Parliaments and/or
Parliamentary libraries, the position of the library in the net?
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The use frequency of the digital media by
MPs, the rate of MPs digital literacy,
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How digital are MPs? (Do they have personal
e-mail, personal websites, the frequency in using them)
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Library staff training, the digital
literacy of the library staff,
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The using frequency by outside readers,
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The new opportunities in the reference
sources of libraries (e-books, e-journals etc.)
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Digitalization: random or planned (white
paper, projections, policy)
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Is there a short and medium run
digitalization plan? Who decides?
2.
Digital Information Policy
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The criteria in the presentation of
information (the filtration of information, flow of information, censorship,
transparency)
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The content management (Who decides, the
position of the library in the decision-making procedure, coordination among
different units)
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The level of basic information about
parliament, parliamentary agenda and parliamentarians.
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The extent of the electronic provision of
services to the citizen (digital access to information, new products, new
instruments)
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Efforts addressed to various user groups
(students, the youth, the old, the handicapped, NGOs, etc.
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New digital products for members.
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Digital information environment of the
Parliamentary libraries (sources and possibilities of information
acquisition)
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The impact of digitalization on democracy?
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Free access to online information,
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The national rate of internet use, the
efforts for extension,
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Are online services being provided in
different languages?
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The effects of digitalization on democracy
(participation, objectives, limitations, possibilities)
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The relationship between people and
Parliament (interactive means, campaigns, on-line participation, news and
discussion groups, active citizenship, active involvement, experiences, the
place of library in that communication)
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Do digital opportunities make difference in
policy-making?
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New citizenship in the digital society
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From representative democracy to a
participatory one?
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