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Book donation is the oldest method of completing a library's collections but is still considered today an act of great generosity, of great interest to libraries, especially in recent years, when the total amounts allocated to the purchase of books are in a vertiginous decline. For the Philosophy Library, branch of the Central University Library "Mihai Eminescu" Iași, an important source of completing the collections is the documents entered free of charge in the library funds following remarkable donations from individuals or legal entities: donations coming from the headquarters, from various institutions, from authors (teaching staff, PhD students, writers), from students (to the final license/master) or from retired teachers. Of great importance are the considerable donations made by families who have inherited impressive libraries of university professors or cultural personalities. Every book donated to the Philosophy Branch is important, we can consider the value of the information it contains, the existence in the library collections, the bibliophile value, the prestige of the publishing house that printed it, the quality of the paper, autographs. All donations entered in the branch's collections contain publications relevant to the library profile; these donations have helped to enrich the Philosophy Branch's collections with some rare, valuable books, but of great importance is the fact that the donated titles, in most cases, did not exist in the library's collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 19-22 April 2018, in Chișinău, took place the 22nd edition of the International Children's and Youth Book Fair of the Republic of Moldova. The event was organized by the "Ion Creangă" National Library for Children. The objectives were: supporting publishing and dissemination of books for children and youth, promoting of book with a high artistic level and supporting those contributing to create and edit publications for children. Over 150 publishers and representatives of several countries attended the event. During the book fair, the International Conference "Library and Children's Reading: Current Challenges" was also organized, at which representatives of the National Library of Romania participated with two proffesional papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BOBCATSSS Symposium is held annually by and for students of library and information science schools of different European universities and it takes place under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). In 2012, BOBCATSSS was organized by students of three universities: University of Amsterdam, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands) and Stuttgart Media University (Germany). Ideas drawn from the ceremony were related to Internet technology dependence, the negative impact on education, the importance of networks in how information becomes knowledge, media universities, what is socialization, media privacy. In one section of the symposium, the author of the article presented with Ane Landøy from the University of Bergen Library, the paper What challenges are library leaders facing? Ane Landøy is a PhDc at Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen and she has conducted qualitative research on issues facing the leaders of libraries in Norway. Results were confronted with the academic community expectations regarding library services, research conducted by the author at the Transylvania University of Brasov. The article, in fact a report on the event, summerizes briefly the main works and papers that have attracted interest, enough to keep the attention of the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]