DELOS CEE Event: Current Trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe

Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003. Getting there was not easy on a budget ticket - my flight was cancelled, and I was rescheduled to fly to Warsaw on a flight seven hours later.Torun is a small city of about 200,000 people with a surviving mediaeval core. It used to be on the border of Poland, and now it is in the centre, due to the redrawing of boundaries after WWII. The DELOS meeting took place mainly in an imposing tower in part of the city wall, just next to the remains of a castle formerly occupied by the Teutonic Knights. The theme of the conference was 'Current Trends in Digitisation'. Chief Librarians (or often their deputies and spies, as one deputy observed) from all over the CEE region attended the meeting, including Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland (of course), Macedonia, Hungary and Latvia.. One speaker came from Italy, to represent the MINERVA project. There were also several heads of projects, who spoke in detail
about these on the second day.