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World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council

"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"

19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa

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Programme and Proceedings

Abbreviations

CB = Coordinating Board
Off-site = not in the ICC but elsewhere, location will be added once known
SC = Standing Committee
SI = Simultaneous Interpretation (English, French, German, Russian and Spanish)
TBA = to be announced

Friday 17 August 2007

08.30-11.00
1 Professional Committee (Closed Meeting)

11.30-14.30
2 Governing Board (Closed Meeting)

15.00-18.00
3 CB I General Research Libraries (Div I)
4 CB I Special Libraries (Div II)
5 CB I Libraries Serving the General Public (Div III)
6 CB I Bibliographic Control (Div IV)
7 CB I Collections and Services (Div V)
8 CB I Management and Technology (Div VI)
9 CB I Education and Research (Div VII) 10 CB I Regional Activities (Div VIII)


Saturday 18 August 2007

Note for Standing Committee members: these SC meetings will be used for the elections of the new Section Officers

08.30-11.20
11 FAIFE Committee Meeting
12 SC I Science and Technology Libraries
13 SC I Public Libraries
14 SC I Art Libraries
15 SC I Bibliography
16 SC I Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
17 SC I Government Information and Official Publications
18 SC I Information Technology
19 SC I Library History
20 SC I Library Services to Multicultural Populations
21 SC I Reading
22 SC I Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning

11.30-14.20, Saturday
24 SC I Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
25 SC I National Libraries
26 SC I Classification and Indexing
27 SC I Geography and Map Libraries
28 SC I Management of Library Associations
29 SC I Reference and Information Services
30 SC I Newspapers
31 SC I Information Literacy
32 SC I Metropolitan Libraries
33 SC I Library Buildings and Equipment
34 SC I Law Libraries
35 SC I Academic and Research Libraries
36 SC I Knowledge Management
37 SC I Audiovisual and Multimedia
38 SC I Government Libraries

14.30-17.20, Saturday
39 SC I Health and Biosciences Libraries
        (Will be held at the University of Kwazulu Natal)
40 SC I Serials and other continuing Resources
41 SC I Acquisition and Collection Development
42 SC I Education and Training
43 SC I Libraries for the Blind
44 SC I Cataloguing
45 SC I Statistics and Evaluation
46 SC I Library Theory and Research
47 SC I Management and Marketing
48 SC I Social Science Libraries
49 SC I Rare Books and Manuscripts
50 SC I School Libraries and Resource Centers
        (Will be held at the Holiday Inn Marine Parade)
51 SC I Preservation and Conservation
52 SC I Genealogy and Local History
53 SC I Libraries for Children and Young Adults
54 SC I Library and Research Services for Parliaments
55 CLM Business Meeting (By invitation only) (IFLA Board Room)

18.00-19.00, Saturday
Caucus Meetings:

56 Caucus: Canada
57 Caucus: French Speaking Participants
58 Caucus: German Speaking Participants
59 Caucus: Dutch Speaking Participants
60 Caucus: Portuguese Speaking Participants
61 Caucus: CIS
62 Caucus: Nordic Countries
63 Caucus: UK
64 Caucus: USA
65 Caucus: Africa, Asia & Oceania and Latin America & Caribbean
66 Caucus: Spanish Speaking Participants
67 Caucus: Chinese Speaking Participants
68 Caucus: Italian Speaking Participants


Sunday 19 August 2007

9.30-11.30
69 SI - Opening Session
Opening Address
Dr. ALEX BYRNE President of IFLA
Keynote speaker: Justice Albie Sachs

11.45-13.30, Sunday
70 PC Hearing on IFLA's professional structure
Discussion paper
Russian translation

13.45-15.45, Sunday
71 SI - Newcomers Session
Details to be announced

13.45-15.45, Sunday
72 SI - UNESCO
Libraries and Knowledge Societies
Chair: Claudia Lux, IFLA President-elect

ABDUL WAHID KHAN, Assistant Director General, Information and Communication Division and
ALEX BYRNE, IFLA President will discuss the role of Libraries and Information Services in the era following the World Summit on the Information Society, including the effects on Claudia Lux's Presidential Theme for the years to come.
13.45-15.45, Sunday
73 National Libraries
The future of national libraries: convergence and partnerships 13.45-15.45, Sunday
74 Quality Issues in Libraries
The new entrance to the library: effectiveness and use of the library web-site 13.45-15.45, Sunday
75 Division IV
Update on international issues and report on bibliographic control in Southern Africa
  • Overview and Announcements
    BARBARA TILLETT (Library of Congress, Washington, USA)
  • Functional Requirements of Authority Data (FRAD)
    GLENN PATTON (OCLC, Dublin, USA)
  • Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)
    MARCIA ZENG (Kent State University, Kent, USA) and MAJA ZUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Cataloguing Section Activities
    JUDITH KUHAGEN (Library of Congress, Washington, USA)
  • Bibliographic Control in South Africa
    INA FOURIE and MARLENE BURGER (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
13.45-15.45, Sunday
76 Law Libraries
Open Access Law and Free Legal Information for Democracy and Human Rights 13.45-15.45, Sunday
77 SC I Africa *
78 SC I Asia and Oceania *
79 SC I Latin America and the Caribbean *
*Note for Standing Committee members: these SC meetings will be used for the elections of the new Section Officers

16.00-18.00, Sunday
80 Exhibition Opening

16.00-16.30, Sunday
81 Extraordinary Meetings Coordinating Boards to Elect PC representative
General Research Libraries (Div I)
Special Libraries (Div II)
Libraries Serving the General Public (Div III)
Bibliographic Control (Div IV)
Collections and Services (Div V)
Management and Technology (Div VI)
Education and Research (Div VII)
Regional Activities (Div VIII)

16.30-17.00, Sunday
82 Extraordinary Meeting Professional Committee to elect PC Chair


Monday 20 August 2007

08.30 - 10.30
83 SI - Division VIII with Education and Training (1)
Advancing LIS education in Developing Countries: views from LIS educators and practitioners 08.30 - 10.30, Monday
84 SI - Preservation and Conservation Core Activity
Preservation of audiovisual and oral tradition archives (with a focus on African studies)

08.30 - 10.30, Monday
85 IFLA Press Conference
Details to be announced.

08.30 - 10.30, Monday
86 @ Your Library

  • Learn how the new Campaign for the World's Libraries Guide can help you promote libraries in your country
    MICHAEL DOWLING (American Library Association)
08.30 - 10.30, Monday
87 Science and Technology Libraries
Changing trends in higher education and its impact on the delivery of science and technology information. 08.30 - 10.30, Monday
88 New Professionals
Developing new professionals for the future
  • Diversity counts: challenges for new professionals in promoting a diverse workforce
    TRACIE HALL (Dominican University, Illinois, USA)
  • Developing leadership skills
    UJALA SATGOOR (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
  • Rising to the challenge: contributing to the strategy of your organisation
    ANDREW CRANFIELD (EBLIDA, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • Developing skills through exchanges: the "Inform the World" programme
    VERONDA J. PITCHFORD (Urban Libraries Council, Chicago, USA)

10.45-12.45, Monday
83-2  SI - Division VIII withEducation and Training (2)
Advancing LIS education in Developing Countries: views from LIS educators and practitioners

10.45-12.45, Monday
89  SI - Bibliography with National Libraries and Classification and Indexing
Re-thinking national bibliographies in the digital age 10.45-12.45, Monday
90 IFLA President
  • Indigenous Knowledge
    ALEX BYRNE
10.45-12.45, Monday
91 UNIMARC
UNIMARC in a changing information environment
  • UNIMARC - current state of affairs and future directions
    ALAN HOPKINSON (Middlesex University, London, UK) and MARIA INÊS CORDEIRO (National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • The use and future of UNIMARC in Namibia
    PAUL ZULU (National Library of Namibia)
  • Challenges and perspectives for Angolan libraries in the 21st century: the importance of co-operation and the role of UNIMARC
    MARIA JOSÉ RAMOS (National Library of Angola)
  • Pratique de l'UNIMARC au Sénégal
    MAMADOU SENE (Bibliothèque Centrale de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
  • L utilisation d'UNIMARC à la Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie
    SAMIA KAMARTI (Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie)
10.45-12.45, Monday
92 Art Libraries
Developing and documenting contemporary indigenous and minority culture 10.45-12.45, Monday
93 Academic and Research Libraries
Find a mentor: an opportunity to network and to learn from colleagues
  • Overview and explanation of mentoring
    SUE McKNIGHT (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom)
After the introduction, small groups will be established for mentoring.

12.45-13.45, Monday
94  SI - Plenary Session
Chair: Claudia Lux, IFLA President-elect
  • Adama Samassekou, President of the African Academy of Languages:
    Le Réseau Mondial pour la Diversité Linguistique - Maay
13.45-15.45, Monday
95  SI - Copyright and other Legal Matters
Traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and folklore
What are they? Who owns them? What kinds of intellectual property protection should they have? What challenges do they present to librarians?
  • Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions and Traditional Knowledge: Key Issues
    WEND WENDLAND (World Intellectual Property Organization, Switzerland)
  • South Africa's Approach to Traditional Knowledge
    MACDONALD NETSHITENZHE (Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa)
  • Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Indigenous People's Perspectives
    MATTIAS AHREN (Saamia Council, Norway)
  • Traditional Knowledge: A Native American Librarian's Perspective
    LORIENE ROY (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
13.45-15.45, Monday
96-1  SI - Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section (1)
Using technology to improve interlending and resource sharing services 13.45-15.45, Monday
97 Government Libraries
Government libraries: approaches to multi-lingual collections and services 13.45-15.45, Monday
98 Health and Biosciences Libraries
Open Access: a panacea for developing countries 13.45-15.45, Monday
99 Information Literacy
Visibility for Information Literacy Work: The International IFLA/UNESCO IL Resources Directory and the IL International State of the Art Report
  • Introduction to the International IFLA/UNESCO IL Resources Directory and the IL International State of the Art Report
    JESUS LAU (Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico), SYLVIE CHEVILLOTTE (ENSSB, Lyon, France) and LINDA GOFF (California State University, Sacramento, USA)
Group Dynamics to provide feedback about the content of the two repertories by the audience. Come and check how well your country Information Literacy efforts are represented, and learn what other regions of the world have done in this subject.

13.45-15.45, Monday
100 Officers Training Session (For IFLA Officers Only)

16.00-18.00, Monday


101  SI - Africa
Looking into the future: models of African libraries in the 21st century and beyond

16.00-18.00, Monday
96-2  SI - Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section (2)
Using technology to improve interlending and resource sharing services 16.00-18.00, Monday
102 Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Partnering to build and grow parliamentary libraries and research services: best practices for success 16.00-18.00, Monday
103 Newspapers
African Newspapers: Access and Technology 16.00-18.00, Monday
104 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award (ATLA)
All delegates are invited to attend the announcement of the annual Access to Learning Award given to recognize the exemplary and innovative efforts of a public library, or similar organization, outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the Internet. An open Reception follows.

16.00-18.00, Monday
105 Libraries for Children and Young Adults
Learning and understanding the worlds' richness and diversity through children's books: The 5th Anniversary of the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) 16.00-18.00, Monday
106 Officers Training Session (For IFLA Officers Only)

Tuesday 21 August 2007

08.30-10.30
107  SI - FAIFE with Health and Biosciences Libraries
Access to HIV/AIDS Information in Africa and Intellectual Property Issues 08.30-10.30, Tuesday
108-1  SI - Genealogy and Local History with Audiovisual and Multimedia (1)
Stories without writing: local and family history beyond the written word 08.30-10.30, Tuesday
109 Replicating Innovation, Improving Lives: Best Practices from the Access to Learning Award (ATLA) Recipients - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Interactive panel discussion about how to successfully expand or replicate programs that provide free access to computers and the Internet while ensuring meaningful and appropriate impacts for users. Previous ATLA recipients will share lessons and examples from their own work. 08.30-10.30, Tuesday
110 Geography and Map Libraries
Mapping the African continent 08.30-10.30, Tuesday
111 E-Learning
E-learning - in search of collaboration and quality 08.30-10.30, Tuesday
112-1 President-Elect (1)
"Libraries on the Agenda" - the discussion
Details to be announced.

10.45-12.45, Tuesday
113  SI - National Libraries with ICABS and Information Technology
National libraries and resource discovery strategies - local, national and global 10.45-12.45, Tuesday
108-2  SI - Genealogy and Local History with Audiovisual and Multimedia (2)
Stories without writing: local and family history beyond the written word 10.45-12.45, Tuesday
114 LIS Education in Developing Countries
Quality assurance and LIS education in developing countries 10.45-11.45, Tuesday
114a Industry Updates: Swets
Chair: Nancy Gwinn, Member of the Governing Board 10.45-12.45, Tuesday
115 Academic and Research Libraries with Management and Marketing
Libraries in the spotlight: promotion and marketing strategies
  • Go and get visible: live communication for libraries
    KLAUS CEYNOWA (Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany)
  • Beyond promotion: audience development by the National Library of Singapore
    GENE TAN and ICAAC TEO (National Library of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Marketing strategies for visibility and indispensibility
    LINDA ASHCROFT (Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
10.45-12.45, Tuesday
116 Government Libraries with Government Information and Official Publications and Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Guidelines for libraries of government departments: a hearing on the draft guidelines
  • Overview of Guidelines
    NANCY BOLT (Nancy Bolt & Associates, Golden, USA)
  • Reaction to the Guidelines from the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
    DONNA W. SCHEEDER (Library of Congress, WASHINGTON, USA)
  • Reaction to the Guidelines from the IFLA Government Information and Official Publications Section
    JANE M. WU (David Lubin Memorial Library, Rome, Italy)
10.45-12.45, Tuesday
112-2 President-Elect (2)
"Libraries on the Agenda" - the discussion
Details to be announced.

12.00-14.00, Tuesday
box Poster Session Presentations
(Exhibition Hall)

12.45-13.45, Tuesday
117  SI - Plenary Session
Chair: Alex Byrne, IFLA President 13.45-15.45, Tuesday
118-1  SI - Reading with Public Libraries and School Libraries and Resource Centres (1)
Libraries in good health: Resources and practices designed to support community development and outreach in health related issues

13.45-15.45, Tuesday
119  SI - Government Information and Official Publications

Government and science: progress, development and partnerships for libraries of the future

13.45-15.45, Tuesday
120 Agricultural Libraries

Impact of globalisation on small farmers worldwide: implications on information transfer 13.45-15.45, Tuesday
121 Library Services to Multicultural Populations with Libraries for Children and Young Adults
Multilingual Library Services to Multilingual Families 13.45-15.45, Tuesday
122-1 Management and Marketing with Metropolitan Libraries (1)
Libraries - crucial institutions in a complex society 13.45-15.45, Tuesday
123 Meet the IFLA Treasurer

16.00-18.00, Tuesday
118-2  SI - Reading with Public Libraries and School Libraries and Resource Centres (2)
Libraries in good health: Resources and practices designed to support community development and outreach in health related issues

16.00-18.00, Tuesday
124 Knowledge Management
Using knowledge management to facilitate information transfers in our multicultural world
  • "The Social Library: The 2.0 Phenomenon and KM" - Collaboration, Cooperation, Sharing, Storytelling, Networking
    STEPHEN ABRAM (SirsiDynix, USA)
  • DISA workflow: Knowledge management in digital library operations
    DALE PETERS (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
  • Archiving of Digital Libraries: Towards Online Storage
    MAGDY NAGI (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt)
  • "Adapt or die": Energizing library staff and academics through the development of digital repositories
    INA SMITH and HEILA PIENAAR (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

16.00-18.00, Tuesday
125 Acquisition and Collection Development
Collection description models - next generation initiatives
16.00-18.00, Tuesday
122-2 Management and Marketing with Metropolitan Libraries (2)
Libraries - crucial institutions in a complex society

16.00-18.00, Tuesday
126 National Association Members Meeting

Wednesday 22 August 2007

All day
127 Genealogy and Local History with Audiovisual and Multimedia
Study tour to: Durban Archives Depot and Killie Campbell Africana Library and Hidden Years Music Archive

08.30 Groups depart from Conference site
09.00 Durban Archives Depot (Group A)
     Killie Campbell Africana Library (Group B)
11.00 Durban Archives Depot (Group B)
     Killie Campbell Africana Library (Group A)
13.00 Combine groups for a quick lunch
14.30 Hidden Years Music Archive, KwaZulu-Natal University, Howard Campus
16.30 Return to Durban ICC

A tour bus will pick up delegates from Durban ICC: there will be a small transportation fee.
For more information, contact Melvin P. Thatcher thatchermp@gensocietyofutah.org

08.30-10.30, Wednesday
128-1  SI - Division III (1)
Social inclusion: how can public libraries embrace the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community?
Democracy and social inclusion
08.30-10.30, Wednesday
129-1  SI - Management of Library Associations with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (1)
Library Association Leadership Development A panel discussion on political advocacy from both the association and the member perspective: Afternoon round tables moderated by Sylvia Piggott, Canada, and Carla Funk, Medical Library Association, USA.

08.30-10.30, Wednesday
130 IFLA Publications
Launch of new IFLA Publications
Chairs: Alex Byrne, IFLA President and
Sjoerd Koopman, IFLA Coordinator of Professional Activities

Authors and editors are presenting the top new titles recently published. The variety is as broad as the IFLA palette of activities: new publications on bibliographic control, African librarianship, library buildings, library leadership development and the new cover design of IFLA Journal.
Take this opportunity to learn about the latest state of play and of course you can place your orders!

 

08.30-10.30, Wednesday
131 Statistics and Evaluation
Developing a new assessment model for the new millennium: is the South African experience extensible? 08.30-10.30, Wednesday
132 Library Theory and Research
LIS Research and publishing: the African LIS researcher's story 08.30-10.30, Wednesday
133-1 Academic and Research Libraries with Information Literacy (1)
Conduits for transformation: incorporating multimodal instruction and learning into information literacy 09.00-16.00, Wednesday
134 Education and Training - Off-site
Location: University of Kwazulu-Natal Library
Collaboration among LIS schools in Africa 10.45-12.45, Wednesday
128-2  SI - Division III (2)
Social inclusion: how can public libraries embrace the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community?
Bridging the information gap - digital inclusion
10.45-12.45, Wednesday
129-2  SI - Management of Library Associations with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (2)
Library Association Leadership Development

10.45-12.45, Wednesday
135 Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA)
Organising for democratic access to information in Africa
I. Introducing ATINA
  • ABRAHAM AZUBUIKE (UNECA Library, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), FRANCIS T. KIRKWOOD (Canadian Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada) and JANE WU (FAO Library, Rome, Italy)
II. New horizons for public information access in Africa
III. An African information access network for democracy: Panel discussion and Town Hall Meeting
10.45-12.45, Wednesday
135a Industry Updates
Chair: Bob McKee, Member of the Governing Board
  • 10.45-11.30
    OCLC: The Benefits of Global Cooperation
    Jay Jordan, President & CEO OCLC
  • 11.45-12.45
    EBSCO Information Services
    Katy Ginanni, Sales Manager EBSCO
10.45-12.45, Wednesday
136 Bibliography
National bibliographies - the African landscape: partnering to enhance national bibliographies in Africa 10.45-12.45, Wednesday
137 Serials and Other Continuing Resources
Serials and Other Continuing Resources: New Initiatives in Africa and Developing Countries 10.45-12.45, Wednesday
133-2 Academic and Research Libraries with Information Literacy (2)
Conduits for transformation: incorporating multimodal instruction and learning into information literacy 12.00-14.00, Wednesday
box Poster Session Presentations
(Exhibition Hall)

12.45-13.45, Wednesday
138  SI - Plenary Session
Chair: Paul Sturges, Chair IFLA/FAIFE Committee 13.30-17.30 , Wednesday
138a   - Digital Archiving and Preservation Update

The national libraries of the Netherlands and Australia have organised an informal information session on recent developments in digital archiving and preservation happening in libraries around the world. This session is intended to facilitate information exchange among libraries with an interest in managing digital collections. Presenters from different countries (including Sweden, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa, Japan, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands) will give short presentations on their latest developments. Presented topics include: digital archiving workflow, repository systems, web archiving, digital preservation tools (characterisation, migration, emulation), file format registries; (inter) national projects etc.

13.45-15.45, Wednesday
128-3  SI - Division III (3)
Social inclusion: how can public libraries embrace the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community?
The Right to Read
13.45-15.45, Wednesday
139-1  SI - Preservation and Conservation with Rare Books and Manuscripts (1)
Preservation in African collections: perspectives and case studies
  • Perspectives on African culture and heritage
    ADAMA SAMASSEKOU (Académie Africaine des Langues, Mali)
  • Memory and national identity
    IAGUBA DJALO (Bibliotheque publique INEP, Bissau, Guinée-Bissau)
  • Memory and national identity
    KAY RASEROKA (University of Botswana Library Services, Gaborone, Botswana)
  • International Library of African Music. Collection and efforts toward preservation and digitization
    DIANE THRAM (International Library of African Music, Grahamstown, South Africa)
  • Manuscript cooperation in Timbuktu
    ALEXIO MOTSI (National Archives and Records Service, Pretoria, South Africa)
  • The McGregor Museum's Photographic Collections with a special emphasis on the historic negatives
    French translation
    ROBERT HART (McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa)
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War in South Africa: Conservation and digitization of an unique photographic collection in University Library Lausanne
    French translation
    DANIELLE MINCIO (Bibiliothèque cantonale et universitaire Unithèque, Lausanne, Suisse)
  • Bleek Collection. Overview and preservation efforts.
    PIPPA SKOTNES (Michaelis Art School of the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)
13.45-15.45, Wednesday
140 Asia and Oceania
Information providers coping with disaster in Asia and Oceania 13.45-15.45, Wednesday
141 Information Coordinators Meeting
(For IFLA Information Coordinators Only)
Sophie Felfoldi, Web Manager, IFLA

13.45-15.45, Wednesday
142 Library Buildings and Equipment
Toolkits for successful library design: guidelines and case studies 13.45-15.45, Wednesday
129-3 Management of Library Associations with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (3)
Library Association Leadership Development

15.00-18.00, Wednesday
143 Africa Section SC II

16.00-18.00, Wednesday
128-4  SI - Division III (4)
Social inclusion: how can public libraries embrace the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community?
Libraries for All
16.00-18.00, Wednesday
138-2  SI - Preservation and Conservation with Rare Books and Manuscripts (2)
Preservation in African collections: perspectives and case studies

16.00-18.00, Wednesday
144 Library History
The history of libraries and librarianship in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • The factors which influenced the establishment and development of libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa
    French translation
    INDRA RANASINGHE (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)
  • The history of libraries and librarianship in South Africa, and their future
    SEBINA LEVEMBER (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa)
  • The mobile libraries of Ngaoundere (Northern Cameroon): a contested means of acquiring knowledge
    ROSTAND KAWE (University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon)
  • Librarians and readers in the South African anti-apartheid struggle
    ARCHIE DICK (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  • Library history in Africa; or, Cinderella and the ICT sisters
    ANTHONY OLDEN (Thames Valley University, UK)
16.00-18.00, Wednesday
145 Cataloguing
Cataloguing Partnerships: principles, standards and projects 16.00-18.00, Wednesday
146 Information Technology
Second Life for libraries: Let's give users what they want: user driven library services 16.00-18.00, Wednesday
129-4 Management of Library Associations with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (4)
Library Association Leadership Development

Thursday 23 August 2007

08.30-10.30
147  SI - IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)
Libraries contributing to web 2.0 08.30-10.30, Thursday
148  SI - Latin America and Caribbean
Building digital libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean; the state of art 08.30-10.30, Thursday
149 Women, Information and Libraries
Women, Information and Libraries in relation to the UN Millennium Development Goals 08.30-10.30, Thursday
150 Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Presentation of the Multicultural Library Manifesto

Alex Byrne will open the session and after the paper isgiven by Kirsten Leth Nielsen. ALA President, Loriene Roy will give a brief talk about her thoughts with regard to the Manifesto.

08.30-10.30, Thursday
151 Reference and Information Services
Getting and keeping ahead: educating for reference and information services for the future

08.30-10.30, Thursday
152 Statistics and Evaluation
Special libraries need special measures 10.45-12.45, Thursday
153  SI - Copyright and other Legal Matters
Debunking Myths About Authors' and Publishers' Collecting Societies - the 'Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

 

10.45-12.45, Thursday
154  SI - Social Science Libraries
Evidence based practice in social science libraries: using research and empirical data to improve service 10.45-12.45, Thursday
155 Division of Regional Activities with IFLA/ALP
Libraries at the forefront of grassroots development 10.45-12.45, Thursday
156 Libraries for the Blind with Libraries for Children and Young Adults
Best practice in library services for print-disabled children 10.45-12.45, Thursday
157 Classification and Indexing
Partners for subject access to bring libraries and users together 10.45-12.45, Thursday
158 Division of Education and Research
The internet, libraries and the changing information behaviour: perspectives for research and education 13.15-14.45, Thursday
159 Closing Session

15.00-18.00, Thursday
160 Council Meeting

Friday 24 August 2007

08.30-10.50
161 SC II Audiovisual and Multimedia
162 SC II Social Science Libraries
163 SC II National Libraries
164 SC II Geography and Map Libraries
165 SC II Management of Library Associations
167 SC II Newspapers
168 SC II Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning
169 SC II Information Literacy
170 SC II Library and Research Services for Parliaments
171 SC II Metropolitan Libraries
172 SC II Library Buildings and Equipment
173 SC II Academic and Research Libraries
174 SC II Reading
175 FAIFE Committee Meeting

11.00-13.50, Friday
176 SC II Law Libraries
177 SC II Science and Technology Libraries
178 SC II Public Libraries
179 SC II Art Libraries
180 SC II Bibliography
181 SC II Genealogy and Local History
182 SC II Preservation and Conservation
183 SC II Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
184 SC II Education and Training
185 SC II Government Information and Official Publications
186 SC II Library History
187 SC II Libraries for Children and Young Adults
188 SC II Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
189 SC II Library Services to Multicultural Populations
190 SC II Asia and Oceania
191 SC II Latin America and the Caribbean
192 SC II Reference and Information Services

14.00-16.50, Friday
193 SC II Serials and other continuing Resources
194 SC II Health and Biosciences Libraries
195 SC II Acquisition and Collection Development
196 SC II Cataloguing
197 SC II Government Libraries
198 SC II Libraries for the Blind
199 SC II Knowledge Management
200 SC II Information Technology
201 SC II Statistics and Evaluation
202 SC II Library Theory and Research
203 SC II Management and Marketing
204 SC II Rare Books and Manuscripts
205 SC II School Libraries and Resource Centers
206 SC II Classification and Indexing
207 CLM Business Meeting (By invitation only)

17.00-18.30, Friday
208 CB II General Research Libraries (Div I)
209 CB II Special Libraries (Div II)
210 CB II Libraries Serving the General Public (Div III)
211 CB II Bibliographic Controls (Div IV)
212 CB II Collections and Services (Div V)
213 CB II Management and Technology (Div VI)
214 CB II Education and Research (Div VII)
215 CB II Regional Activities (Div VIII)

Saturday 25 August 2007

All day:
216 Governing Board Meeting (By invitation only)

Conference Venue

ICC, International Convention Center, Durban, South Africa

Click to see a map to the ICC

Address: 45 Ordnance Road
4000 Durban
South Africa

Tel: +27 31 360 1000
Fax: +27 31 360 1005