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The article offers information on the ninth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008. "Reference in Digital Environments" and "Education and Training in/for Digital Libraries" were this year's tracks. For the first three days, participants of the conference met at the Inter-University Center, and the last two days at the Hotel Odisej. Tefko Saracevic of Rutgers University and Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic of University of Zadar opened the conference by reviewing the short history of LIDA and the longer history of its topics. Kathleen Kern, Helle Lauridsen, and Caleb Tucker-Raymond all stressed the role of the user in determining digital library services.

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age conference held in Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia. Tefko Saracevic of the New Jersey's Rutgers University discussed on the benefits of digital libraries to librarians. Themes of the conference were "Reflections: Changes Brought by and in Digital Libraries in the Last Decade," and "Heritage & Digital Libraries: Digitization, Preservation and Access."

The article discusses the highlights of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2007 conference, held from May 28 to June 2, 2007 in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia. Donald W. King, research professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, said that researchers are not only relying more on libraries, but they seem to be reading more. He replicated a previous study he did with Carol Tenopir from the University of Tennessee, explaining that this increased usage was caused by a decrease in personal collections, more articles being read than can be identified by online bibliographic searches, along with broadened access to articles through electronic collections. He surveyed 6,000 households for the study, titled "The Cost and Use of Electronic and Print Journal Collections."