Wednesday 17 May - Sokos Hotel Viru (see below)

Arrival
EBHL Board meeting - 15.00

Thursday 18 May - Academic Library of Tallinn University (about 3 minutes walk from the hotel); Tallinn Botanic Garden

8.15 - Meet in Sokos Hotel Viru
8.30 - Registration (at Academic Library of Tallinn University)
9.00 - Marika Plooman, Marketing Manager at the Academic Library of Tallinn University, will give us a tour of the Library
11.15 - Report by Riin Olonen, Elnet Consortium Development Manager, about the Elnet Consortium and the Estonian Libraries Catalogue

12.00 - 12.45 Lunch in the café of the Academic Library
13.00 - Bus to Tallinn Botanic Garden

13.30 - Welcome and opening of meeting by Dr Margus Kingisepp, Director of Tallinn Botanic Garden
13.35 - Business meeting
14.45 - Report by Grozdana Sirotic, Librarian, Central Biological Library, Faculty of Science, Zagreb on Useful Plants of Croatian Flora database
15.00 - 16.30 Tour in garden by botanist Urmas Laansoo

16.30 - 17.30 EBHL drinks reception
17.30 - Bus to Sokos Hotel Viru
19.10 - Meet in Sokos Hotel Viru
19.30 Conference Dinner in restaurant Nord (group menu)

Friday 19 May - Tallinn Botanic Garden

8.30 - Meet in Sokos Hotel Viru, bus to Tallinn Botanic Garden

9.00 - 9.30 Visit to Library - Librarian Kaia-Kadri Gailit
9.30-10.00 Visit to Herbarium - Curator Taimi Piin
10.00 Dr Heiki Tamm, Director of the Botanical Garden, University of Tartu - Botanic gardens in Estonia

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Maire Vatsar, Librarian, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tartu - Library of the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
11.15 Brent Elliott, Librarian, Royal Horticultural Society - The copying of illustrations without left-right reversal in the Renaissance
11.45 Roger Mills, Oxford University Library Services - Recent developments at Oxford - new library system, launch of digital library (including Flora Graeca), new buildings, new arrangements for special collections

12.30 -13.30 Lunch

13.30 - Margus Pau, Bookshop Krisostomus - Bookshop Krisostomus
14.00 - Dr Hain Tankler, Senior Researcher, Tartu University Library - Botanical "staff" at the Tartu University Library

14.45 Coffee/ Tea
15.15 Bus to National Library of Estonia

16.00-17.30 Visit to National Library of Estonia
17.30-19.00 City tour in old Tallinn
20.40 - Meet in Sokos Hotel Viru
21.00 Dinner in old Tallinn at the Maikrahv restoran (Menu: Merchant Guild Feast, 32 EUR per guest + alc.)

Saturday 20 May - Organised sightseeing trip to Lahemaa National Park and Palmse manor

8.00 - Meet in Sokos Hotel Viru
10.00-12.00 Tour of Palmse manor and park
12.00 - Lunch in Palmse restaurant
16.00 - Sokos Hotel Viru

Accommodation - Sokos Hotel Viru

A provisional block booking has been made for 17-21 May 2006
35 single rooms Viru class 84,00 EUR incl. breakfast; double room 106,30 EUR, payment on arrival

To book, fill in and email the registration form to Kaia-Kadri Gailit.

Bookings can be changed without any problems up to 28 days before arrival; final booking, (with names and credit card details) have to be announced to Kaia-Kadri Gailit by 9 May 2006 at the latest, as she has to confirm these details 7 days before arrival.

Useful links:

Tallinn Tourism
Estonian Air - direct lines to Tallinn
Tallinn Airport information