• 10:00 am – 10:30 am. Libraries & People: from the Books onwards. Practices and Issues of digitization, digitalization, digital preservation within physical and digital public spaces.

Annalisa Rossi, Head of the Soprintendenza archivistica e bibliografica della Lombardia - Italian Ministry of Culture

• 10:30 am – 11:00 am. Digital preservation of a special collection at the Lasallian Library in Rome. Digital preservation has been emphasized, both as a method of providing research and supporting preservation policies. Meanwhile, the management of library special collections requires, from time to time, multidisciplinary approaches on the part of the librarian in order to manage the records from both preservation and information access perspectives. Examples will be presented to enable the proper preservation of a 19th-century photographic collection while making the photographic material digitally usable.

Anna Cascone, Head of the Lasallian Library, Lasallian Heritage and Research Center

• 11:00 am – 11:30 am. Digitisation as a Way of Making the Library Collections Accessible: The Case of the National Library of the Czech Republic. One of the drivers behind the digitisation effort of the National Library of the Czech Republic is the desire to overcome the often limited physical accessibility of its modern collections to the public. The talk explores this factor in two areas: selection of priority titles for digitisation and presentation of the reformatted documents in the digital library.

Michaela Bežová, Director of Modern Digital Collections Division, National Library of the Czech Republic

Vojtěch Halama, Head of the Department of Coordination of Modern Collections’ Administration and Reformatting, National Library of the Czech Republic

• 11:30 am – 11:45 am. Coffee break

• 11:45 am – 12:15 pm. Artificial Intelligence and Human Adaptability: A New Era of Flexible Living. The presentation will explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping human lifestyles, enhancing adaptability, and creating new opportunities for a more flexible way of living in our rapidly changing world focus to LIBRARY SCENARIO.

Zainab Ajab Mohideen, Senior Information Technology Officer, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

• 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm. The API: the glue for Digital Transformation
  

Edmund Balnaves, CEO, Prosentient Systems (Australia) 

• 12:45 pm – 01:45 pm Lunch

• 01:45 pm – 02:15 pm. Types of digital repositories. Ensuring information security. Saving and sharing your digital collections with persistent identifiers. Choosing the right repository for your institution.

Maria Cotera, Partnerships Development Manager, Figshare

• 02:15 pm – 02:45 pm Digital Cultural Heritage as a source for AI

Andrija Sagić, Head of Digital Development Department, “Milutin Bojić” Library

• 02:45 pm – 03:00 pm Coffee break

• 03:00 pm – 03:30 pm Cultural Heritage Reimagined: Enhancing Experiences at Onassis Library" will explore how the Onassis Library uses innovative technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 3D mapping to create an interactive and immersive cultural space. These tools have revolutionized user engagement with historical documents, artworks, and educational content, providing a model for other libraries to adopt similar strategies.

Vasiliki Gerontopolou, Science & Technology Historian (MA), Onassis Library Coordinator, Onassis Library, Onassis Foundation

Nikolaos Sideris, Librarian, MSc in Information Science, Onassis Library Manager, Onassis Library, Onassis Foundation 

• 03:30 pm – 04:00 pm. Digitization of Library Collections: From Selection to Publishing. Unlocking Heritage: Qatar National Library's End-to-End Digitization workflow, Quality Insights, and Innovative Arabic OCR Solutions

Hany A. Elsawy Abdellatif, Head of digitization Services, Qatar National Library