Activities

The Association organizes events to introduce libraries for the wider public.
Yearly highlights for the Association are the Annual Meeting and the Forum in February and the Library Days in October. The Forum discusses subjects relevant to libraries and librarians.

The Library Days in October bring librarians together from both small and bigger libraries in different locations in Estonia. We find out the

library team with biggest knowledge of Estonian literature and the librarian with best professional skills in searching on Internet. The Library Days always hosts the Day of the Estonian Book, the Day of Rural Librarian, seminar of the Research and Special Libraries.

Summer camps for rural and school libraries, seminars, information days, Congresses of Estonian and Baltic librarians are held periodically and regularly.

Some of the topics of Library Days:

Congresses of Estonian Librarians

The 1st Congress in 1923. Since 1988 congress is held every 5 years.
The last, 10th Congress was held in Pärnu in 2013. The 11th Congress will take place in October 2018.

Congresses of the Librarians of the Baltic States

A tradition since 1930, held every five years in different countries. The last, 9th Congress, “Reading in Digital Age” took place in Lithuania in October, 2011.

Biographical database of Estonian librarianship

ERBA http://ery.tlulib.ee/ comprises  personal and bibliographical information on people who have given much effort and been successful in Estonian librarianship for a long time.