At Târgu Jiu Town, between 8th and 11th of October 2014, will be organised the National Conference of ANBPR (National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries form Romania). This will be the first major Conference organised after the end of BIBLIONET Project and librarians will discuss and diseminate important information in order to continue actions started in the BIBLIONET Program period of time. An important part of professional interest will be focused on organisational development and returning toward library tools development (automated catalogues, web services for information dissemination). We invite you to participate at this big autumn professional event togetheer with public librarians and also we invite you to discuss with our representative who will attend, as usually, the event.

BiblioPublica Conference organized by ANBPR will take place on 14-15 of May, 2014, at Bistriţa. On this special occasion will be working meetings of the Association Governing Council, professional committees and various working groups. From the IME is invited to attend Dr. Liviu-Iulian Dediu, as a member of ANBPR Governing Council and member of the ANBPR Automation Commitee. ANBPR is The National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries from Romania.

The end of 2013 came with the onset of two major projects related to the implementation of RFID solutions in Romanian public libraries. It's about Timis County Library (see also: http://www.timisoarastiri.ro/update-biblioteca-centrala-universitara-eugen-todoran-a-introdus-in-premiera-pentru-romania-codurile-radio-pentru-carti-acum-e-randul-bjt/) and "D. Zamfirescu" County Public Library of Vrancea (see also: http://www.bjvrancea.ro/servicii-pentru-public-in-noul-sediu-central/). Timis County Library is the first public library in Romania which has a selfcheck equipment for their library users. Both of the libraries are using TinREAD integrated library system and 3M brand equipment.

A new library began the year using TinREAD as integrated solution. It is Adjud Municipal Public Library, which has migrated from TinLIB TinREAD.Standard version.

Once mid-November, the Library has organized training courses for TinREAD use, librarians completed the migration procedures, and early December have begun to use TinREAD.Standard. The new TinREAD integrated library software package replaced TinLIB that Arges County Public Library uses the early 2000s.

Since late May, for one month, will conduct a series of professional meetings organized by ABR under the title: Spring meetings of divisions and sections ABR. Indicative Programme is to: http://www.abr.org.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280%3Aintalnirile-de-primavar-ale-diviziunilor-i-seciunilor-abr&catid=22%3Acomunicate&lang=ro

In a recently published article, Mr. Dragos Adrian Neagu, County Public Library "P.Istrati" from Brăila Director responds to an amount of questions related to his achievements as a professional, at his 20-year anniversary of activity within the institution. To the question "What is the most important project that you made or that you have participated in these two decades of work at the library?" Mr. N. gives response, which led to the achievement of the Collective Catalogue of Libraries in Romania - BIBLIO.RO (http://catalog.biblio.ro), which also has the functionality of a digital library, developed with the help of TinREAD. Also worth mentioning that Mr. Neagu speaks about development of his library information services which have as support the TinREAD.Standard Neo-ILS: the development of his institution digital library which has a collection of digital objects that integrates both the titles of old and contemporary periodicals, scholar bibliography for middle school classes and multimedia. I might add, to the praise the creation of lists supplied by the TinREAD in OAI-PMH format linking the digital objects from the local database with EUROPEANA.EU, the scan and automatic data processing project based on TinREAD and its functionality of use standard bibliographic METZ and ALTO (by scanning the "Înaintea" serial title, an historically constituted and ceased the appearance) and integration of EM equipment from 3M that complements the free access system of the users to the library's printed materials. In this way, we congratulate Mr. Dragos Adrian Neagu for the achievements he has scored in his work and we wish him to be healthy and able to continue which aims, along with his public library from Brăila professionals.

BiblioPublica Conference organized by ANBPR will take place on 18-19 April, at Buşteni. On this special occasion will be working meetings of the Association Governing Council, professional committees and various working groups. From the IME is invited to attend Dr. Liviu-Iulian Dediu, as a member of ANBPR Governing Council and member of the ANBPR Automation Commitee. ANBPR is The National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries from Romania.

Since April, all the librarians who use TinREAD System and are part of the organizations that have technical support contract, will be able to call souport service type "Help Desk". Requests are entered automatically by the system. As your answers will be added to the database (answers that will be visible by the authors of the questions) this will develop a knowledge base that can be accessed by all the subscribers when they are faced with a similar problem. In this way, the response to the various requests for information or to improve their situations will be able to be found without the need to write a notes/requests. For accessing the new assistance tool enter: http://support.ime.ro or enter the section from IME website.