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On the 4th and 6th July 2006 Sala Borsa Library tested 8 users to check how people interact with the web site. The usability test was focused on web resources and services, as Bologna online (documentation about the culture, history, society, institutions of the city) and Ask a Librarian (online reference service offered in cooperation with the main city libraries).
The results were positive: the users discharged the tasks in a short time and expressed a good evalutation in the final interview.

Bekescsaba, 12th-14th July, 2006.

The three-day-long conference brought into focus the following topics: our cultural heritage, tourism and libraries taking part in European Union projects. Numerous foreign experts also attended the conference (from Slovakia, Romania, Spain). Two foreign lectures - given by Rob Davis (England) and Ioannis Trohopoulos (Greece - Veria) - raised the standard of the meeting, too. Ioannis Trohopoulos presented Veriagrid, talked about the activity of the Town Library of Veria and its role in several European Union projects, which aroused a lot of interest among Hungarian librarians. Dr. Ambrus Zoltan informed the audience about the activity of the Bekes CountyLibrary in the Light Project, and presented the Koros-Maros Cultural Heritage Website. The lecturers and participants had the opportunity of getting acquainted with some of the region’s sights, traditions and natural values in the form of a study-tour on the second day of the conference.

The participants in the Lisbon Management Meeting, on the 16th and 17th June 2006, in front of the meeting place

Usability test

Usability test to 17 people on 17th May, 2006

The Békés County Library gave the usability test to 17 people on 17th May, 2006. The testing took place in the Town Library of Hodmezovasarhely. It was followed by a discussion where people could talk about what they thought of the test, the website, the application and the testing itself. On basis of the evaluation of the tests a modification and development plan was prepared that is going to be implemented during the following one or two months.

The RoskildeLight.dk was presented at a disseminationevent on May the 17th. Most of the associations present expressed their interest in cooperating with the homepage.

RoskildeLight links to homepages of local association and thereby they have their own homepages exposed to a greater public. As a mean of creating a greater local identity we are looking foreward to this cooperation.

Next dissemination event will be at a big library conference with 75 participants late May 2006

At the Low Countries Library Link Conference 2006 on Libraries and Civil Society the LIGHT Operation was presented to the participants by Roskilde Library as part of our lecture on creating a new landscape for citizenship and lifelong learning. More information: http://www.debibliotheken.nl/content.jsp?objectid=6949   

The participants at the Interregional meeting in Veria on 17, 18 March 2006 in front of the bus which promotes the first cultural map of the city of Veria, the pilot application which Veria Public Library implement in the Context of Light project.

The Municipality of Veria and Veria Central Public Library organize during February and March 2006 several Literary events in order to promote the digital cultural map of the city.