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In the 21st century governmental institutions and media in Lithuania pay a lot of attention to the development of "information" or "knowledge" society and are engaged in practical implementation of information technology (IT). Governmental institutions are concerned to keep pace with the European Union and neighbouring countries, especially Baltic countries, level. To develop and implement society's computer literacy require necessary technologies and means for which creation and development it is obligatory to possess computer devices, IT specialists, there ought to be approval of the state and society and reciprocal concern. School library as one of the most important parts in school experiences and has to overcome all the changes in educational and cultural systems to keep with information society. In order not to stay behind from public and academic libraries, which are provided with modern technologies, school libraries also must have electronic catalogue, which would facilitate the accounting and management of funds, delivery of the recourses existent in the funds. The Ministry of Education and Science in Lithuania announced the contest and in 2003 gave the licence to Ltd "Sintagma" which created software called MOBIS (information system of school libraries). The paper reviewed and evaluated implementation, different stages of implementation and functional potential of for schools designed computer-based catalogue MOBIS in Lithuanian schools' libraries, a survey of librarians in Lithuanian schools about implementation of this program in their working place, advantages and disadvantages of the system was carried out. According to the librarians, who have already installed electronic catalogue MOBIS, the system has essentially facilitated their work. MOBIS system gives them a chance to administer comfortably school library's funds. Cataloguing, gathering, administration and search of issues are performed quickly and efficiently. The system also provides a possibility to connect to the catalogues of other schools and copy the descriptions of issues. It helps to save time. However, many school libraries get not enough sponsorship and the support from school's resources is not sufficient so not all libraries are able to purchase the hardware necessary to work with the program MOBIS. The installation of MOBIS program in Lithuania's schools was planned to be accomplished till the end of 2006. Unfortunately, only a small number of schools can boast of full implementation and usage of this program. Although only in one third of schools this program is already installed, the work is not fully accomplished yet because there is a lack of necessary skills, time resources are too short, a shortage of librarians, there are not enough courses about installation and administration of MOBIS for librarians. Therefore a great deal of work waits for school librarians. Now it is difficult to foresee the problems. First steps are always complicated, however, namely the first steps confirmed the benefit of school libraries' computerisation and software MOBIS which also showed new work possibilities in the area of cataloguing, gathering and users' service.

In the 21st century governmental institutions and media in Lithuania pay a lot of attention to the development of "information" or "knowledge" society and are engaged in practical implementation of information technology (IT). Governmental institutions are concerned to keep pace with the European Union and neighbouring countries, especially Baltic countries, level. To develop and implement society's computer literacy require necessary technologies and means for which creation and development it is obligatory to possess computer devices, IT specialists, there ought to be approval of the state and society and reciprocal concern. School library as one of the most important parts in school experiences and has to overcome all the changes in educational and cultural systems to keep with information society. In order not to stay behind from public and academic libraries, which are provided with modern technologies, school libraries also must have electronic catalogue, which would facilitate the accounting and management of funds, delivery of the recourses existent in the funds. The Ministry of Education and Science in Lithuania announced the contest and in 2003 gave the licence to Ltd "Sintagma" which created software called MOBIS (information system of school libraries). The paper reviewed and evaluated implementation, different stages of implementation and functional potential of for schools designed computer-based catalogue MOBIS in Lithuanian schools' libraries, a survey of librarians in Lithuanian schools about implementation of this program in their working place, advantages and disadvantages of the system was carried out. According to the librarians, who have already installed electronic catalogue MOBIS, the system has essentially facilitated their work. MOBIS system gives them a chance to administer comfortably school library's funds. Cataloguing, gathering, administration and search of issues are performed quickly and efficiently. The system also provides a possibility to connect to the catalogues of other schools and copy the descriptions of issues. It helps to save time. However, many school libraries get not enough sponsorship and the support from school's resources is not sufficient so not all libraries are able to purchase the hardware necessary to work with the program MOBIS. The installation of MOBIS program in Lithuania's schools was planned to be accomplished till the end of 2006. Unfortunately, only a small number of schools can boast of full implementation and usage of this program. Although only in one third of schools this program is already installed, the work is not fully accomplished yet because there is a lack of necessary skills, time resources are too short, a shortage of librarians, there are not enough courses about installation and administration of MOBIS for librarians. Therefore a great deal of work waits for school librarians. Now it is difficult to foresee the problems. First steps are always complicated, however, namely the first steps confirmed the benefit of school libraries' computerisation and software MOBIS which also showed new work possibilities in the area of cataloguing, gathering and users' service.

In the 21st century governmental institutions and media in Lithuania pay a lot of attention to the development of "information" or "knowledge" society and are engaged in practical implementation of information technology (IT). Governmental institutions are concerned to keep pace with the European Union and neighbouring countries, especially Baltic countries, level. To develop and implement society's computer literacy require necessary technologies and means for which creation and development it is obligatory to possess computer devices, IT specialists, there ought to be approval of the state and society and reciprocal concern. School library as one of the most important parts in school experiences and has to overcome all the changes in educational and cultural systems to keep with information society. In order not to stay behind from public and academic libraries, which are provided with modern technologies, school libraries also must have electronic catalogue, which would facilitate the accounting and management of funds, delivery of the recourses existent in the funds. The Ministry of Education and Science in Lithuania announced the contest and in 2003 gave the licence to Ltd "Sintagma" which created software called MOBIS (information system of school libraries). The paper reviewed and evaluated implementation, different stages of implementation and functional potential of for schools designed computer-based catalogue MOBIS in Lithuanian schools' libraries, a survey of librarians in Lithuanian schools about implementation of this program in their working place, advantages and disadvantages of the system was carried out. According to the librarians, who have already installed electronic catalogue MOBIS, the system has essentially facilitated their work. MOBIS system gives them a chance to administer comfortably school library's funds. Cataloguing, gathering, administration and search of issues are performed quickly and efficiently. The system also provides a possibility to connect to the catalogues of other schools and copy the descriptions of issues. It helps to save time. However, many school libraries get not enough sponsorship and the support from school's resources is not sufficient so not all libraries are able to purchase the hardware necessary to work with the program MOBIS. The installation of MOBIS program in Lithuania's schools was planned to be accomplished till the end of 2006. Unfortunately, only a small number of schools can boast of full implementation and usage of this program. Although only in one third of schools this program is already installed, the work is not fully accomplished yet because there is a lack of necessary skills, time resources are too short, a shortage of librarians, there are not enough courses about installation and administration of MOBIS for librarians. Therefore a great deal of work waits for school librarians. Now it is difficult to foresee the problems. First steps are always complicated, however, namely the first steps confirmed the benefit of school libraries' computerisation and software MOBIS which also showed new work possibilities in the area of cataloguing, gathering and users' service.

In the 21st century governmental institutions and media in Lithuania pay a lot of attention to the development of "information" or "knowledge" society and are engaged in practical implementation of information technology (IT). Governmental institutions are concerned to keep pace with the European Union and neighbouring countries, especially Baltic countries, level. To develop and implement society's computer literacy require necessary technologies and means for which creation and development it is obligatory to possess computer devices, IT specialists, there ought to be approval of the state and society and reciprocal concern. School library as one of the most important parts in school experiences and has to overcome all the changes in educational and cultural systems to keep with information society. In order not to stay behind from public and academic libraries, which are provided with modern technologies, school libraries also must have electronic catalogue, which would facilitate the accounting and management of funds, delivery of the recourses existent in the funds. The Ministry of Education and Science in Lithuania announced the contest and in 2003 gave the licence to Ltd "Sintagma" which created software called MOBIS (information system of school libraries). The paper reviewed and evaluated implementation, different stages of implementation and functional potential of for schools designed computer-based catalogue MOBIS in Lithuanian schools' libraries, a survey of librarians in Lithuanian schools about implementation of this program in their working place, advantages and disadvantages of the system was carried out. According to the librarians, who have already installed electronic catalogue MOBIS, the system has essentially facilitated their work. MOBIS system gives them a chance to administer comfortably school library's funds. Cataloguing, gathering, administration and search of issues are performed quickly and efficiently. The system also provides a possibility to connect to the catalogues of other schools and copy the descriptions of issues. It helps to save time. However, many school libraries get not enough sponsorship and the support from school's resources is not sufficient so not all libraries are able to purchase the hardware necessary to work with the program MOBIS. The installation of MOBIS program in Lithuania's schools was planned to be accomplished till the end of 2006. Unfortunately, only a small number of schools can boast of full implementation and usage of this program. Although only in one third of schools this program is already installed, the work is not fully accomplished yet because there is a lack of necessary skills, time resources are too short, a shortage of librarians, there are not enough courses about installation and administration of MOBIS for librarians. Therefore a great deal of work waits for school librarians. Now it is difficult to foresee the problems. First steps are always complicated, however, namely the first steps confirmed the benefit of school libraries' computerisation and software MOBIS which also showed new work possibilities in the area of cataloguing, gathering and users' service.

Articles in this volume are grouped under four headings: 1) The Word in Context, 2) Text and Pragmatics, 3) Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, 4) Foreign Language Teaching. Articles under the heading "The Word in Context" explore English, German, Polish idioms; multimodal meanings; expression of negation; corpus-based contrastive analysis of syntactic constructions and linguistic units in Lithuanian, German and English; linguistic aspects of advertisements; characteristics of Church Slavonic adjectives, etc. Articles in the section entitled "Text and Pragmatics" present insights into translation of taboo words from English into Lithuanian; hedging in political discourse; epistemic modality; syntactic compression; nounal compounds in English and Lithuanian; face-saving and face-threatening acts in art reviews, etc. Articles under the heading "Linguistic and Cultural Contacts" deal with convergence and divergence in europeisms; bloodlands fiction; metaphors in East poetry translations; national identity; politeness and cooperation principles in communication; disphemisms in intercultural communication; intertextuality in modern prose, etc. Articles in the section "Foreign Language Teaching" explore issues such as digital learning environments; factors of students' learning motivation; integration of Erasmus students into Lithuanian culture; acquisition of Latvian as foreign language; distant foreign language learning; development of students' cultural awareness; topical issues of English and German maturity examinations, etc.

Articles in this volume are grouped under four headings: 1) The Word in Context, 2) Text and Pragmatics, 3) Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, 4) Foreign Language Teaching. Articles under the heading "The Word in Context" explore English, German, Polish idioms; multimodal meanings; expression of negation; corpus-based contrastive analysis of syntactic constructions and linguistic units in Lithuanian, German and English; linguistic aspects of advertisements; characteristics of Church Slavonic adjectives, etc. Articles in the section entitled "Text and Pragmatics" present insights into translation of taboo words from English into Lithuanian; hedging in political discourse; epistemic modality; syntactic compression; nounal compounds in English and Lithuanian; face-saving and face-threatening acts in art reviews, etc. Articles under the heading "Linguistic and Cultural Contacts" deal with convergence and divergence in europeisms; bloodlands fiction; metaphors in East poetry translations; national identity; politeness and cooperation principles in communication; disphemisms in intercultural communication; intertextuality in modern prose, etc. Articles in the section "Foreign Language Teaching" explore issues such as digital learning environments; factors of students' learning motivation; integration of Erasmus students into Lithuanian culture; acquisition of Latvian as foreign language; distant foreign language learning; development of students' cultural awareness; topical issues of English and German maturity examinations, etc.

Articles in this volume are grouped under four headings: 1) The Word in Context, 2) Text and Pragmatics, 3) Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, 4) Foreign Language Teaching. Articles under the heading "The Word in Context" explore English, German, Polish idioms; multimodal meanings; expression of negation; corpus-based contrastive analysis of syntactic constructions and linguistic units in Lithuanian, German and English; linguistic aspects of advertisements; characteristics of Church Slavonic adjectives, etc. Articles in the section entitled "Text and Pragmatics" present insights into translation of taboo words from English into Lithuanian; hedging in political discourse; epistemic modality; syntactic compression; nounal compounds in English and Lithuanian; face-saving and face-threatening acts in art reviews, etc. Articles under the heading "Linguistic and Cultural Contacts" deal with convergence and divergence in europeisms; bloodlands fiction; metaphors in East poetry translations; national identity; politeness and cooperation principles in communication; disphemisms in intercultural communication; intertextuality in modern prose, etc. Articles in the section "Foreign Language Teaching" explore issues such as digital learning environments; factors of students' learning motivation; integration of Erasmus students into Lithuanian culture; acquisition of Latvian as foreign language; distant foreign language learning; development of students' cultural awareness; topical issues of English and German maturity examinations, etc.

Articles in this volume are grouped under four headings: 1) The Word in Context, 2) Text and Pragmatics, 3) Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, 4) Foreign Language Teaching. Articles under the heading "The Word in Context" explore English, German, Polish idioms; multimodal meanings; expression of negation; corpus-based contrastive analysis of syntactic constructions and linguistic units in Lithuanian, German and English; linguistic aspects of advertisements; characteristics of Church Slavonic adjectives, etc. Articles in the section entitled "Text and Pragmatics" present insights into translation of taboo words from English into Lithuanian; hedging in political discourse; epistemic modality; syntactic compression; nounal compounds in English and Lithuanian; face-saving and face-threatening acts in art reviews, etc. Articles under the heading "Linguistic and Cultural Contacts" deal with convergence and divergence in europeisms; bloodlands fiction; metaphors in East poetry translations; national identity; politeness and cooperation principles in communication; disphemisms in intercultural communication; intertextuality in modern prose, etc. Articles in the section "Foreign Language Teaching" explore issues such as digital learning environments; factors of students' learning motivation; integration of Erasmus students into Lithuanian culture; acquisition of Latvian as foreign language; distant foreign language learning; development of students' cultural awareness; topical issues of English and German maturity examinations, etc.

The article analyses the former prospects of armed resistance to Soviet occupation in 1940. It discusses Plan "R" of the Lithuanian Armed Forces prepared for the case of a military conflict with the USSR. The article reveals the positions in which the Lithuanian Armed Forces were planning to confront the enemy from the east and southeast. It provides theoretical insights on the likely level of resistance to the Soviet occupation, the directions and pace at which military actions could have taken place.

The article analyses the former prospects of armed resistance to Soviet occupation in 1940. It discusses Plan "R" of the Lithuanian Armed Forces prepared for the case of a military conflict with the USSR. The article reveals the positions in which the Lithuanian Armed Forces were planning to confront the enemy from the east and southeast. It provides theoretical insights on the likely level of resistance to the Soviet occupation, the directions and pace at which military actions could have taken place.