We would like to invite all the literary enthusiasts, librarians, and teacher-librarians to the third conference organised by Warszawski Program Edukacji Kulturalnej as part of the EduAction. It has already become a tradition that it is held at the Warsaw Book Fair.

Registration: https://eduakcjadlabibliotek.evenea.pl/

Bearing in mind that cultural education is the sum of actions shaping the human capital, preparing us for conscious participation in culture and stimulating our aesthetic sensitivity, we would like to meet on 18 May with the intention of strengthening and improving our competencies.  A modern librarian plays the role of a consultant, teacher and co-creator of classes. In order to be up to his tasks and meet the expectations of both young and adult readers, he has to be a good time manager and, most importantly, be able to make library an interesting and valuable place.

The conference will cover a reflection on personal development, working with pupils on readings, as well as current issues of the professional milieu of teacher-librarians.

We are pleased to announce the participation of Maja Branka – a coach, consultant, tutor, and supervisor – having 16 years of experience, working both with groups (conducting trainings, workshops, sessions) and individuals. For the past four years she has been involved in a strong cooperation with cultural institutions – libraries and cultural centres, as well as with municipal officials responsible for the cultural policies. She specialises in workshops related to interpersonal and social communication.

At the conference, some time will also be devoted to the new application form of the Warsaw Cultural Education Award.

Learn about the modern library system providing access to academic publications in digital form. Stand BN 102/D19.

If you have failed to submit obligatory copies of any of your publications to the National Library, you can leave the missing copies at the National Library stand (102/D19) throughout the duration of the Book Fair.

A panel meeting with the participation of booksellers from all over Poland, members of the association of small independent bookshops – Kolektyw Księgarzy Kameralnych The participants of the meeting will include: Krzysztof Blinkiewicz from Czerwony Atrament in Płock, Małgorzata Narożna from the bookstore FiKa in Szczecin, Aldona Mackiewicz from Toruński Antykwariat Księgarski. The meeting will be moderated by Anna Karczewska from the initiative “Książki Kupuję Kameralnie” (I buy my books in small bookshops).

The Literary Translators Association is an association of translators of essays, fact and fiction literature and audiovisual works.  Our aims are to stimulate and integrate literary translators, to provide education and protection of their interests, as well as to promote literature, the reading habit and publishing culture.

During the Warsaw Book Fair, members of the Association will be on a stand-by duty at the Association’s stand. Come to talk about your favourite book with the person who translated it for you into Polish.

Creative Europe Desk Poland invites publishers and publishing houses to an information meeting devoted to the financing of translation, promotion, distribution and publication of European literary works (the maximum grant per project is EUR 100,000). We will present guidelines and the current grant application procedures.

Marcin Skrabka, Irena Makarewicz.

Speaker: Russian delegation

Announcement of nominations

Announcement of nominations

A continuation of the survey “Talking about books on the Web. A meeting space of readers” started in 2016, the results of which were presented last year at a conference on the occasion of the World Book and Copyright Day and at the Warsaw Book Fair. It is a joint research project of Lubimy Czytać, a Polish website for book lovers, and the Polish Chamber of Books. This year, having taken into account new, interesting factors, we once again tried to analyse the influence of using increasingly popular websites for book readers on reading habits. The new survey was conducted in April this year.

Announcement of nominations

Speaker: The director of the General Directorate of International Book Exhibitions and Fairs, Sergey Kaykin.

The second edition of the Literary Translators Association’ Award.

Want to know more about the publishing industry in China? What books sell well in China? Want to know the newest sales number in 2016? What are the steps of getting into the Chinese publishing market?

Amazon in Europe, the whole British book industry, half of the national German base, the entire export of Spanish publishers to South America – three to four years ago nobody would have thought that publishers in different countries would one day use a single global multilingual book subject classification.

And yet, one simple, common, and at the same time relatively detailed subject category scheme has been approved. Perhaps, it will long be a prevailing view in Poland that every publisher and retailer needs to create his own book subject classification system. Or maybe a breakthrough will happen?

We will discuss this matter with our guests. The meeting will be hosted by Renek Mendruń, who has been attending the meetings of the International Thema Steering Committee for a number of years on behalf of the National Library of Poland.

Speaker: The Director of the Warsaw Book Fair, the President Jacek Oryl and the Director of the Moscow International Book Fair, Sergey Kaykin.

Screening of a documentary film about Tadeusz Górny.

A panel discussion with Artur Becker, Ewa Wanat, Marek Cichocki and Alexander Skipis (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) 
Chair: Gerhard Gnauck

Wherever the freedoms of the press and opinion are suppressed, democracy is in danger. What consequences does this have for a society? How can authors and journalists, in particular, deal with censorship and continue to do their job? A panel discussion on one of the most important topics of our time.

Speaker: The Round table between the representatives of the publishers and the bookselling companies of Russia and Poland.

Presentation of the progress of works on a digital book lending platform, a project developed for visually impaired readers.

If you have failed to submit obligatory copies of any of your publications to the National Library, you can leave the missing copies at the National Library stand (102/D19) throughout the duration of the Book Fair.

The Literary Translators Association is an association of translators of essays, fact and fiction literature and audiovisual works.  Our aims are to stimulate and integrate literary translators, to provide education and protection of their interests, as well as to promote literature, the reading habit and publishing culture.

During the Warsaw Book Fair, members of the Association will be on a stand-by duty at the Association’s stand. Come to talk about your favourite book with the person who translated it for you into Polish.

The meeting will be conducted by Dr Marcin Zarzecki from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University.

A printing workshop.

With Patrice Locmant (French Ministry of Culture), Britta Jürgs (Kurt Wolff Foundation) and Jessica Sänger (German Publishers and Booksellers Association)

Chair: Włodzimierz Albin 

English/Polish

A German prize for booksellers, the French label "LIR-Librairie Indépendante de Référence" and, of course, fixed book prices: in Germany and France public support for independent bookshops comes in many shapes and sizes. How can we support the diversity of the book trade? What models have proved successful? How could these be applied in Poland? Find answers to these questions, and more besides, in this panel discussion.

Learn about the modern library system providing access to academic publications in digital form. Stand BN 102/D19.

Children as recipients (addressees), often involuntary; the role of literature and reading; the role of family and environment; the threats of modern technology (computers, tablets, smartphones), and the increasingly frequent phenomenon of children taking part in various productions: advertisement, TV series, TV programmes or theatre plays.

The first debate took place during the 16^th Poznan Trade Fair Meetings on books for children. This time, the PTWK invites to the second debate. Join us on a panel discussion with eminent experts and authorities in different areas:

Professor Joanna Papuzińska (University of Warsaw), Professor Edyta Gruszczyk-Kolczyńska (Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw), Irena Koźmińska (President of the ABCXXI Foundation – Cała Polska Czyta Dzieciom), Bogusława Sochańska (President of the Danish Cultural Institute and an esteemed translator), Ewa Gruda (managing the unique Childrens’ Books Museum in Warsaw).

The meeting will be moderated by Olcha Sikorska, the Vice-President of PTWK, the founder and manager of sixteen editions of Poznan Trade Fair Meetings.

Today young  readers want to interact with books in various formsBooksGO – gamifying books and content on smartphones as a way to engage generation Y and Z into readership and technologies, not only in traditional full-text version. Publishers and librarians needs a new approach and tools to develop readership engagement especially within fiction and non-ficition.

This workshop aims to introduce gamification idea and its practical application in readership promotion as well as Finnish software tools dedicated for gamifying books and content on mobile devices (iOS/Android).

Workshops are free, will be held in Polish language, number of participants is limited. To be an active participant please bring a laptop and a smartphone (iOS/Android) . More details and participants info can be find here  www.goodbooks.pl/gamifikacja

 

A discussion with Philipp Meuser (DOM publishers) and the writers Justyna Borucka, Harald Gatermann, Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann and others

The internationally acclaimed architectural guides published by DOM take us away from the beaten tourist path. In a talk with his authors, publisher Philipp Meuser introduces the guides to the architecture of Warsaw, Gdansk and Wroclaw.

With Bernhard Fetsch (Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur)
Chair: Bogdan Szymanik (Bosz Publishing & Bookshops)

What conditions need to be in place for publishers and booksellers to work successfully together? What kinds of marketing model are proving successful in Germany at present? How do publishers gain new readers and bookshops new customers? Come here for advice and inspiration for your publishing business or bookshop.

An official meeting of academic and science book publishers combined with the award ceremony in the competition for the best science and academic book ACADEMIA 2017, including the Main Prize and the special Rector awards: The Award of the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology for the best academic publication in the field of technology and exact sciences and the Award of the Rector of the University of Warsaw for the best academic publication in the field of human and social sciences. The same meeting will also include the award ceremony of the 7^th Librarian of the Year Award 2016. 

How I became a GROM operative. A meeting with NAVAL, a former operative of the special forces unit GROM, author of the book “Ostatnich gryzą psy” and “Przetrwać Belize”.

Presentation of awards: the ECONOMICUS Award of “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” for the best economic book, the TECHNICUS Award of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations ‘NOT’ for the best technical book and and the Professor Jerzy Skowronek Award for authors and publishers in the field of history and archive studies.

Host: Piotr Dobrołęcki, Editor-in-Chief of Magazyn Literacki KSIĄŻKI

Speaker: The Representative of the Living Classics Foundation, Daria Petrova.

We will talk about when a child becomes a reader, how to built a connection by reading together and how to chose books to get started. We will also discuss the phenomenon of bookstart programs in the world and initiatives promoting the reading habit among children.

If you have failed to submit obligatory copies of any of your publications to the National Library, you can leave the missing copies at the National Library stand (102/D19) throughout the duration of the Book Fair.

The Literary Translators Association is an association of translators of essays, fact and fiction literature and audiovisual works.  Our aims are to stimulate and integrate literary translators, to provide education and protection of their interests, as well as to promote literature, the reading habit and publishing culture.

During the Warsaw Book Fair, members of the Association will be on a stand-by duty at the Association’s stand. Come to talk about your favourite book with the person who translated it for you into Polish.

The Award for the best book translation in the technical field or in the field of mathematics and natural sciences published from 1 April 2016 to 18 March 2017.

Agnieszka Marciniak. Methodological advisor to the publishing houses CLE and Nowela.

Violaine Jamel. Methodological advisor of Hachette Livre.

Learn about the modern library system providing access to academic publications in digital form. Stand BN 102/D19.

Throughout the duration of the Book Fair, representatives of the ISBN Office will provide consultations at the National Library stand (102/D19).

Rémi Gérôme. Methodological advisor to the publishing houses Didier and Nowela.

Barbara Klimek. Methodological advisor of Hachette FLE.

Diego Martin Arroyo. Methodological advisor to the publishing houses Edinumen and Nowela.

Meeting among friends

Speaker: The moderator of the Round table  — the philologist-polonist specializing in the field of Polish literature, Victoria Mochalova.

Presentation of the Polish translation of Peter Oliver Loew’s book “Wir Deutschen. Geschichte der Polen in Deutschland” (München: C.H. Beck 2014). The interview with the author will be conducted by the Director of the German Historical Institute (NIH), Professor Miloš Řezník.

The author presents the history of Poles in Germany, discussing Polish immigration and the historical Polish minorities in Germany, from the Middle Ages to the present. Today the Polish community – the second largest minority group in Germany – is highly diverse. It includes displaced people who no longer acknowledge any Polish identity but speak Polish at home, often the Silesian dialect. There are those who want to integrate with the German society as quickly as possible and those who try to remain Polish. There are people who emigrated for economic or political reasons – some of them have Polish citizenship and some have German citizenship. Furthermore, every year Germany hosts hundreds of thousands of Polish seasonal workers. At the same time, Germany is inhabited by the descendants of those who ended up there because of World War II and even of economic migrants from the pre-war period.  

Leonardo Masi. Methodological advisor to the publishing houses Edilingua and Nowela.

An academic session in the LONDYN section. A panel with emigration literature researchers. Seven panelists will present seven deceased writers, who the literary circles in Poland and abroad know little about.

If you have failed to submit obligatory copies of any of your publications to the National Library, you can leave the missing copies at the National Library stand (102/D19) throughout the duration of the Book Fair.

The Literary Translators Association is an association of translators of essays, fact and fiction literature and audiovisual works.  Our aims are to stimulate and integrate literary translators, to provide education and protection of their interests, as well as to promote literature, the reading habit and publishing culture.

During the Warsaw Book Fair, members of the Association will be on a stand-by duty at the Association’s stand. Come to talk about your favourite book with the person who translated it for you into Polish.

Learn about the modern library system providing access to academic publications in digital form. Stand BN 102/D19.

Throughout the duration of the Book Fair, representatives of the ISBN Office will provide consultations at the National Library stand (102/D19).

Meeting.

Speaker: Russian delegation.