| : Σε ευχαριστώ για τη συμμετοχή σας. Λόγω συνθηκών, το Συνέδριο διεξάγεται διαδικτυακά. Για τον ίδιο λόγο, το κεντρικό του θέμα είναι ο ρόλος των βιβλιοθυκών στη διαγήρυση έκτακτων συνθηκών. Προσυπογράφω αυτό που διαβάζω στο εισαγωγικό κείμενο της ανακοίνησης του Συνεδρίου, δηλαδή ότι σήμερα είναι επιτακτικότερη παρά ποτέ η περαιτέρω αυτοματοποίηση πληροσίων, η προσθήκη νέων, αλλά και η βελτίωση των είδη παρεχωμένων, με τη χρήση των δυνατοτήτων που παρέχει η νέα ψηφιακή εποχή. Οι Ακαδημαϊκές Βιβλιοθήκες καλούνται να χρησιμοποιήσουν κάθε τύπου συμβατές με τον ρόλο τους τεχνολογίες προς όφελος των χριστών τους, αναβαθμίδοντας ακόμη περισσότερες ψηφιακές υποδομές τους. And to make our guest, Mr. Christopher Cox, feel closer, I will refer to the abstract of his presentation. He says, COVID-19 has caused academic libraries to make temporary changes to their spaces and the way they deliver services in order to avoid infection and provide a safe environment. How might these changes impact libraries and library design in the long term? His statement and his question are absolutely justified and need to be addressed right away by our university. I would like to refer briefly to the history of the MP Library. The library was founded in 1837 and began official operation in 1914. It is one of the oldest and largest Greek academic libraries. It has about 220,000 volumes of books and 100,000 volumes of journals. It is housed in the largest part of the Polytechnic Library and has an exhibition in the Patrician Hall and includes the Library of the School of Architectural and Mechanical Engineering as well as the Doxiadis Collection. I do not visit the library as often as I would like to and certainly less often than before I take a high seat and no longer to enjoy its content with the sensations of clarity and comfort. The exposure to the smell of the book and its unveiling has now retreated due to digital evolution and of course the unmatched versatility of the screens. But what remains unmatched, at least for my generation, is the ability to focus and process information that direct contact with the traditional book offers in contrast to the e-book. But the e-book is here to dominate, as is the great expansion of access to information that is now offered by modern libraries. I refer directly to the database and the bibliography as well as the increased title of the library of the NIP, that is the library and information center. We are proud of our library and owe a lot of memory to Vassilis Papazoglou who gave an important boost to its development. In closing, I express my gratitude to the staff of the NIP library for their dedication and especially under the difficult circumstances of the pandemic and of course for the organization of the conference, which I hope will be successful and will be able to deal with the fewest technical problems of the internet. I wish you all good health and happy holidays. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Britain and the NIP. We will continue with a short greeting from our opponent of academic and academic affairs, Mr. Zosoukididis, with whom we are also working directly on issues of the library. And I warmly thank him for his participation today and for his general support for our library. I would also like to, with my turn, apologize for this short delay and I hope that it will continue, and I am sure with your expectations, really. I would like to extend my greetings to all the participants, the library community, the heads and chairs of libraries, the students and the lecturers of libraries, the colleagues who participate, everyone. The importance of libraries in academic institutions as a center of knowledge and information is invaluable in supporting the educational and research process. Libraries continue to fulfill their role as the heart of universities, despite the distance, of course, from the printed form to the electronic one. The contribution of the series of pan-Greek conferences of academic libraries is well known and appreciated by all members of the academic community, because it has helped a lot in the development of libraries, in the integration of ways of lending, syndromes based on data, and much more. It has been proven that in this series of conferences you are constantly asked by the participants of the future of the library. This can be the electronic book, new electronic bases, open forms of access, and much more. The international experience is recorded, and in the end, better solutions are suggested for the Greek reality. I think it is an essential activity, and nothing can stop it, not even the technical difficulties we experienced, not even COVID, nothing. The annual conference of academic libraries takes place now, for the first time, of course, in digital form. I remember here, for example, it was in 2000 at MEP, when the first Panhellenic Conference of Academic Libraries took place, with the president in charge, Vassilis Papazoglou, who took place once before. For the first time, it took place in the library building, which is a seven-story building, and is one of the most luxurious academic libraries in the country. One of the interesting events of that time, was that it took place from three different points and floors of the library, and any member could ask questions from all the positions. It had an online feel, we would say, for the time, and it was something new, innovative. The thematic aspects of the digital conference now have been taken into account. They include urgent issues of the operation under the pandemic conditions, the distance of operation, innovative elements related to access to knowledge, and so on. We are waiting for very interesting conclusions. The period we lived in the library's operation, we would say, was a difficult experience for all of us, and it was really oppressive. We basically had to adjust the way of operation constantly, depending on the data, how the access would be, how the public support would be, our teachers. From the position of responsibility I have, I have the best opinion about the anxiety and contribution of all the people of our library during all this time, and I know that the same thing happens only in academic libraries. I had the same positive feeling from personal experience, and from previous years, when we collaborated with members of our library for the best possible utilization and presentation of an important donation of the hand of Dr. Rokos, the great mathematician and professor of the Greek University of Pantelis Rokos, whose donations included books, writings and various other advertising, and in fact we made a preparation of an entrance ticket. I would like to emphasize that our library pays tribute to all the donors and members of the academic community who contributed work and value. A typical example is the collection of the library of Doxiadis, a particularly important donation. It is the well-known library of the Academic Center of Housing, which was donated to the NIP of our Foundation and Konstantinos Doxiadis. This library, which supported the research and educational activities of the Athenian Technical Union and the Athenian Center of Housing, as well as the study activities of the Doxiadis office, consisted for decades of a basic reference to the technical world of the country and is considered particularly important internationally. The donation is considered a special collection under the title of the library of Doxiadis, on the fifth floor of the Boulinas Building, in the courtyard of the library, at the entrance of the buildings. It is also a historical library of the NIP, which is a result of a systematic effort of the old collection of the library of the Foundation. It includes books that have been published from the 17th century until 1950, and the main focus of the collection consists of old and rare books, leaflets, maps, inscriptions and encyclopedias. It is also worth noting the ancient material of the art, which includes an invaluable wealth of documents from the beginning of the Foundation's operation until today, and allows us to know the role that the NIP played in its creation. It remains untouched, and it is a future project, its promotion and its collection and the preservation of this invaluable material. I warmly thank all those who worked for the success of this conference, the employees who, with the coordination of Mrs. Stavoulakouris, who we have in the NIP, have prepared the platforms and applications, along with the technicians, and of course I thank all the members of the Scientific Committee of the conference. I wish you good success in the work of the conference and happy holidays to everyone. Thank you very much, Ms. Pritani. Thank you very much for the words you said about the library. Indeed, there is a lot of valuable material that needs to be revealed, and of course the historical archive is an important point that we need to look at. Thank you very much, Ms. Pritani. I would like now to turn it over to Mrs. Stavoulakouris. I would like now to start our conference, but first I would like to tell you a few things about the process. The speakers will follow up. Those who are interested in asking questions about the lecture will be able to do so. The process has changed a bit due to the technical problems we had. However, you will be able to ask your questions in the main of the conference, in the panel 26. You will not be able to send your questions there. I made a mistake. You will be able to send them there if you wish to connect to the live session of the Q&A session. Therefore, we will send you a link so that you can connect at that time and speak live. Therefore, you will be able to send your questions via the main of the conference, in the panel 26. You will be able to send your questions if you wish to join and answer them. You will be able to connect there. We will send you the link after the main session. We will connect you to the live questions. I would like to mention the 26th Pan Hellenic Conference on Academic Advocates. You can stay tuned to the YouTube channel to watch all the interesting talks. We will start with the first recorded talk, as I mentioned earlier, by Mr. Christopher Cox. Thank you very much. We all had a good time. I would like to warmly thank all of you, all of you who registered. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. |
