14th of October

12.00 - 13.00  Registration/Lunch

13.00 - 13.05  Introduction to the conference by PubliCA

13.05 - 13.30  Public Libraries and the Information Society.
                         The Danish Minister of Culture,
                         Mrs. Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen

13.30 - 14.15  Keynote: The position of public libraries in  
                         relation to the information society
                         Mrs. Mirja Ryynänen, MP, Parliament of Finland

14.15 - 14.45  Coffee

14.45 - 15.30  The Public libraries and their role in terms of
                         social inclusion, lifelong learning, cultural
                         policy and economic growth.
                         By the General Director of IFLA,
                         Mr. Ross Shimmon

15.30 - 16.00  ISTAR speaker Mr. Ioannis Koukiadis, MEP,
                          Professor of Law, University of Thessaloniki

16.00 - 16.05  The President of EBLIDA Mrs. Britt-Marie
                          Häggström introduces session on national
                          strategies

16.05 - 16.35  The Irish Strategy by Mr. Tom O'Mahony,
                          Assistant Secretary, Department of the
                          Environment and Local Government

16.35 - 17.00  The Portuguese strategy
                          by Mr. José Carreira Marques,
                          the Mayor of Beja Municipality

17.00 - 18.00  Pause

18.00 - 20.30  Reception at the Royal Danish Library's new
                         building at Copenhagen's Harbour-front.
                         Bus transportation will be organised.

20.30 -             Dinner and entertainment

15th of October

09.00 - 09.45  Special session: Perspectives for the public
                         libraries in regard to the ongoing develop-
                         ments in the IST Programme and RTD
                         activities in DG XIII/E 
                         by Mr. Bernard Smith, Head og Unit, DG XIII/E2,
                         Culturel Heritage Applications

09.30 - 11.15  Session on interaction between Society and   
                         Public Libraries by PubliCA
                         Four short presentations
                         Democracy and citizenship
                         - Mrs Breda Karun, Ljubljana
                         Economic and social development
                         - Heather Kirby, Information Services Manager,
                         Croydon Libraries
                         Lifelong learning - Franz Meijer, Director,
                         Public Library Rotterdam
                         Culture and linguistic diversity - Tuula Haavisto
                         Project Manager CECUP (Central and Eastern
                         European Copyright User Platform)
                         Questions and debate

11.15 -11.45   Break

11.45 -12.00  Three 5 minutes Summaries of the conference.
                         Impressions from Director Jens Thorhauge,
                         the Danish National Library Authority
                         Victor Colodron, Technical Adviser, Ministry of
                         Education and Culture, Spain
                         Audrone Glosiene, Head of Department og Library
                         Science, Faculty of Communication,
                         Vilnius University, Lithuania (Not yet confirmed

12.00 -12.30  Presentation of declaration by PubliCA

12.30 -            Lunch