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EVI LASKARI, HONORARY VOLUME
a librarian who supported and advised borrowers). Under Evi’s initiative,
the Mobile Library visited the philanthropic foundation for kids, ‘Xamogelo
tou Paidiou’- ‘Child’s smile’, in Magoulades
o The operation of two computers, in a separate room of the Library, for
use by disabled persons. One of this computers is for blind persons, under
Braille system and the other one for persons with disabilities
o The archiving of a great amount of aged and rare books, a process under
evolution
Evi Laskari, beyond her managerial and development activities of the Library,
especially tended to follow updates and education regarding well-known and
beneficial ways (globally), to manage and organize libraries, still called the Sci-
ence of Librariaship. Therefore, in March 1995, she attended a seminar in Glas-
gow, in December of 1998 in Saint Maxime Var (France), in June 1999 in La
Londe (France) and 2007 in Vienna, as well as several seminars of the National
Documentation Centre in Athens. In 2003 she attended the Postgraduate Pro-
gram in “Science of Information in a Digital Environment” of the Department
of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, in relation with the Science
of Librarianship’s evolution. She ended her studies by writing her thesis titled:
‘Open URL code technologies in relation to Dublin Core metadata’. This kind of
research topic indicates her ability to pass off and research for innovation in her
discipline, as she did not ‘stop’ in a classic approach of a librarian, but within
this thesis, she tried to test herself with an innovative subject, which reaches Li-
brary Science based on Informatics tools. After obtaining her Masters degree, Evi
Laskari broadened her scientific vision. In June 2008 collaborating with the Lec-
turers Christina Banou and Petros Kostagioals, she lectures in the Department of
Archives and Library Science. Evi Laskari made a scientific announcement at the
International Conference ‘Metropolitan Libraries Conference’ in Prague, in which
she presented a paper titled: ‘Research as regards strategic planning as mean of
Greek Public Central Libraries development in 21st century’. The same team pub-
lishes a scientific article titled ‘Strategic planning and management of Public Li-
braries: the case study of Public Library of Corfu’ that has been accepted to be
published, after a review, in Library Management, one of most wwell-known sci-
entific journals in Library Science. In the same volume, the remaining to authors
published an article dedicated to the work of the Library, and Evi’s memory.
Thus, the Public Library of Corfu became well-known as a successful Public Li-
brary, among Librarians of Europe and whole world, something that can be seen
as an additional effort made by Evi Laskari regarding this Library.
In 26 September 2008, during the 17
th
National Conference of Academic Librar-
ians, in Ioannina, Evi had planned to present a scientific announcement titled:
