Sójkowska, Podgórski, and Rożniakowska, Part 4
Last but not least: the “Forum” section, where many librarians spend lot of time and energy discussing many problems related to librarians, libraries and librarianship.
The comprehensive set of necessary information means that EBIB service is the basic tool used at work by most librarians. Openness of the editorial office members and willingness to cooperate with users has resulted in readers who are keen to publish their papers in EBIB Bulletin. Not only they report the most important events to the editorial office, which are then posted in “News” section, readers also take part in subject–oriented discussion forums. All this makes the service being very lively and appreciated. It plays a crucial role in the improvement and professional life of all librarians: those still studying, the beginners and the professionals with long–lasting professional experience.
During several years of its activity, the EBIB platform has become the place for the exchange of ideas, where everybody (either in the EBIB Bulletin or on the Forum) can initiate interesting posts, which certainly will be continued, kindly answered or commented in depth with professional opinion. The integration among librarians is probably the greatest achievement of the editorial office and the project.
At present EBIB is maintained and edited by 31–person team. The board of directors, editorial board and other members are enrolled in research libraries all over Poland. They work and communicate remotely on a daily basis, with the use of a discussion list, Skype, e–mail messages or phone in order to make important decisions. Since 2001, the EBIB editorial office operates as a group of librarians associated with the Commission for Electronic Publishing of the Polish Librarian Association — the largest organization that associates librarians in Poland.
EBIB is a non–profit undertaking, therefore depends on volunteers to fulfill many duties. EBIB team members continuously aim at excellence in quality of service, quality of texts and level of user satisfaction.
A very important undertaking, which is being implemented step by step, is an English version of whole platform. So far, the EBIB Bulletin has the English version of papers’ abstracts and conference materials’ abstracts. Also the other sections of the platform are partly translated. The dream of EBIB team would be full translation of the service in order to promote Polish librarianship all over the world