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World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council

"Libraries - A voyage of discovery"

August 14th - 18th 2005, Oslo, Norway

Conference Programme & Proceedings

Conference Venue:
The World Library and Information Congress 2005 will be held at the Oslo Spektrum and in the conference hotel, Hotel Radisson Plaza in Oslo, Norway. Both venues are connected and are located in the heart of Oslo.

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Abbreviations:
CB = Coordinating Board
Off-site = not in the "Oslo Spektrum" or the Hotel Radisson Plaza 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 12 August 2005

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)

18.30-19.30
11 Mobile Libraries SC I
(Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica)

The above mentioned Coordinating Board Meetings (CB I) are the business meetings of the IFLA Divisions. They are not usually open to conference delegates.

Saturday 13 August

The following SC Meetings are the business meetings of the Standing Committees of IFLA Sections. They may be attended by observers by permission of the chairs which is usually given. They are a good way of getting to know the work of a Section and may lead to direct involvement.

08.15-10.45
12 SC I Science and Technology Libraries
(Rikshospitalet, Library of Medicine and Health Sciences, Oslo)

08.30-11.20
13 SC I Public Libraries
14 SC I Art Libraries
15 SC I Bibliography
16 SC I Genealogy and Local History
17 SC I Preservation and Conservation
18 SC I Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
19 SC I Education and Training
20 SC I Government Information and Official Publications
21 SC I Information Technology
22 SC I Library History
23 SC I Libraries for Children and Young Adults
24 SC I Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
25 SC I Library Services to Multicultural Populations
26 SC I Reading
27 SC I Serial Publications and other continuing Resources

08.30-10.30
28 SC I Health and Biosciences Libraries
(Rikshospitalet, Library of Medicine and Health Sciences, Oslo)

11.30-14.20
29 SC I University Libraries and other General Research Libraries
30 SC I Acquisition and Collection Development
31 SC I Audiovisual and Multimedia
32 SC I Cataloguing
33 SC I Government Libraries
34 SC I Libraries for the Blind
35 SC I Knowledge Management
36 SC I Statistics and Evaluation
37 SC I Library Theory and Research
38 SC I Management and Marketing
39 SC I Social Science Libraries
40 SC I Rare Books and Manuscripts
41 SC I School Libraries and Resource Centres
42 FAIFE Committee Meeting

14.30-17.20
43 FAIFE Advisory Board Meeting
44 SC I National Libraries
45 SC I Classification and Indexing
46 SC I Geography and Map Libraries
47 SC I Management of Library Associations
48 SC I Reference and Information Services
49 SC I Newspapers
50 SC I Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning
51 SC I Information Literacy
52 SC I Women's Issues
53 SC I Library and Information Science Journals
54 SC I Library and Research Services for Parliaments
55 SC I Metropolitan Libraries
56 SC I Library Buildings and Equipment
57 CLM Business Meeting

18.00-19.00
Caucus Meetings:
58 Caucus: Canada
59 Caucus: French Speaking Participants
60 Caucus: German Speaking Participants
61 Caucus: Netherlands Speaking Participants
62 Caucus: Portuguese Speaking Participants
63 Caucus: CIS
64 Caucus: Nordic Countries
65 Caucus: UK
66 Caucus: USA
67 Caucus: Africa, Asia & Oceania and Latin America & Caribbean
68 Caucus: Spanish Speaking Participants
69 Caucus: Chinese Speaking Participants

Evening IFLA Officers Reception (By invitation only)

Sunday 14 August

08.30-10.00
70 SI - Council I

10.45-12.45
71 Opening Session

Please note that the audience should be seated 30 minutes before the Ceremony starts - i.e. at 10:15 - because the attendance of the King of Norway.

12.45-13.45
72 SI - Plenary Session I.
Rising from the wreckage; Tsunami affected libraries in Sri Lanka
Chair: Jacinta Were, Member of the Governing Board 13.45-15.45
73 SI - Newcomers Session

74 SI - UNESCO Session
Memory of the World Panel
Chair: Bendik Rugaas, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee
  • Aziz Abid: Memory of the World - General Overview
  • Jasmine Cameron: Memory of the World in Asia/Pacific
  • Alida Boye: Memory of the World in Africa - The Timbuktu Manuscripts
  • Celia Zaher: Memory of the World in Latin America and the Caribbean - The Slave Trade Archives project
  • Ekaterina Genieva and Adolf Knoll: Memory of the World in Europe and the UNESCO/Jikji Prize
  • Deanna Marcum: Memory of the World in Lijiang, China
  • General discussion moderated by Jon Bing

75 Reference and Information Services
Virtual versus face-2-face. Reference and information services - a personal service delivered to the 'invisible' user via library portals
Moderator: GITTE LARSEN (The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark) 76 Art Libraries
C20 Visual Culture - Its impact on art library collecting

76 A Africa SC I
76 B Asia & Oceania SC I
76 C Latin America & Caribbean SC I

77 PAC Advisory Board

16.00-18.00
78 Opening of the Exhibition
Including the Opening Party

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

16.30-17.00
80 Extraordinary Meeting Professional Committee to elect PC Chair

Monday 15 August

08.30-10.30
81 SI - Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management - the broader issues and opportunities 82 SI - Government Information and Official Publications
Sailing the treacherous seas of digital government information: from pamphlet boxes to digital library 83 Rare Books and Manuscripts
Embracing the flood. Managing the 20th century as the past: 20th century materials - selection, preservation and access
  • Modern and Postmodern: Evidence of the Twentieth Century in Special Collections
    RICHARD LANDON (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
  • 20th century artists' books
    MARCIA REED (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA)
  • European history in a nutshell. Propaganda leaflets of the twentieth century in the collection of single-sheet materials of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Selection, Preservation and Access.
    CHRISTIANE CAEMMERER (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Germany)
  • Embracing the flood - or rather diverting a tributary in order to help prevent future flooding
    ELISABETH EIDE (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway)
84 Management of Library Associations
Strong Associations Make Stronger Libraries
  • Why Do We Need Associations?: The Value of Library Associations to Libraries and Librarians
    KEITH MICHAEL FIELS (USA)
  • The Global Library Association Development (GLAD) Program and GLAD 'Twinning' Program: A New Tool for Global Library Development
    SYLIVA PIGGOT (Canada) and JANICE LACHANCE (USA)
  • Empowering Library Associations in Asia - south-south cooperation
    SUSANNE ØRNAGER (UNESCO)
  • Setting the Agenda for Global Association Development: Identifying the Needs (Group Discussions/Group Reports)
85 Social Sciences Libraries
10.45-12.45
86 SI - CLM
Developing a library agenda for intellectual property
  • Libraries and the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
    WINSTON TABB (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  • How Do You Say A2K [Access to Knowledge]? Make It Happen!!
    BARBARA STRATTON (CILIP, UK) and TERESA HACKETT (Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL))
  • The View from the WIPO Secretariat
    GEIDY LUNG (WIPO)
  • Library-Related Principles for the International Development Agenda of WIPO
    ROBERT OAKLEY (Georgetown University, USA)
Following these brief presentations, participants will engage in small-group discussions about the role librarians can play in the global A2K initiative, core principles that guide libraries in dealing with copyright legislation in the 21st century, specific provisions needed in intellectual property laws and treaties to enable libraries to fulfill their special roles in the information society, and success stories that may be helpful to colleagues from other countries.
87 SI - Libraries for Children and Young Adults
Children's and young adults services, a voyage in the past, present and future 88 Serials and Other Continuing Resources
Million dollar baby: changing serials business models for an electronic age
  • Caught between print and electronic
    KARI STANGE (BIBSAM, The Royal Library's Department for National Coordination and Development, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Evolving business models: increasing access to research information
    MARTIN RICHARDSON (Managing Director, Journals Division Oxford University Press, United Kingdom)
  • The tangled web: perspective of a library director
    ANTHONY W. FERGUSON (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
89 Division of Education and Research
Recruitment and Careers 90 New Professionals' DG
Introduction: Alex Byrne, IFLA-President Elect 2005-2007
  • Experiences of Job Exchange
    Français
    SIDSEL HINDAL, the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority on the advantages of gaining work experience abroad
  • Status report from the convenors of the NPDG, Andrew Cranfield, Stuart Hamilton and Loida Garcia-Febo
Following this, the majority of the two hour session will take on a rotating table-talk format, where NPDG members will be able to be discuss areas of interest with senior library professionals from around the world.

Sessions:
  • MICHAEL DOWLING (International Relations Office of the American Library Association, US) - Michael will be will be talking about and chairing a discussion on the value of international working relations in an LIS career
  • JULIE ROBINSON (LIBEX, International Library and Information Job Exchange, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK) - Julie will be talking about and chairing a discussion on the practicalities of job exchange schemes
  • DR. ISSAC KIGONGO-BUKENYA (Director of the East African School of Library and Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
    Global Library and Information (LIS) concerns: the case for International Accreditation of LIS qualifications
  • MARIAN KOREN (The Netherlands Public Library Association) - Marian will be talking about how new professionals can become more involved in the work of IFLA.

11.15-13.00
91 Law Libraries Discussion Group
Off-site
The internationalisation of law: the teaching, the students, the research and the library

12.45-13.45
93 SI - Plenary Session II.
Chair: Alex Byrne, IFLA-President Elect 2005-2007 13.45-15.45
94 SI - FAIFE - Part I.
Libraries and Human rights
(Continues: see Part II.)
Chair: Paul Sturges, Chair of IFLA/FAIFE
  • Upcoming legislation and threats to library services
    MARIAN KOREN (The Netherlands Public Library Association, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • The USA PATRIOT ACT and the response of America's libraries
    JUDITH KRUG (American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom)
  • Barriers to accessing information on the Internet
    STUART HAMILTON (IFLA/FAIFE Office)
  • Western security legislation and its implications
    SIMON DAVIES (Director of Privacy International)
  • Freedom of information laws around the World
    BARBARA JONES (Wesleyan University, USA)
95 SI - Statistics and Evaluation with University Libraries - Part I.
Quality in the institutional environment
(Continues: see Part II.) 96 National Libraries
Networking cultural heritage: national libraries, archives and museums working together 97 Newspapers
Newspaper digitisation projects. Developments in the online availability of older newspapers 98 Government Libraries
Destination unknown? Piloting innovation in government libraries 16.00-18.00
99 SI - FAIFE - Part II.
Libraries and Human rights
(Programme, see Part I.)

100 SI - Statistics and Evaluation with University Libraries - Part II.
Quality in the institutional environment
(Programme, see Part I.)

101 Science and Technology Libraries
Open source literature: Widening the scope to serve science and its disciplines 102 Library History
Historical literacy: examples and value 103 IFLA
Best political practices - cases of successful library actions with politicians / decision makers
  • Introduction: Libraries and WSIS
    TUULA HAAVISTO, (WSIS coordinator of IFLA)
  • Creating library policy in Malaysia; co-operation between decision makers and librarians
    Dr. HJ WAN ALI bin WAN MAMAT, (Director General of the National Library of Malaysia)
  • Pay equity for the library profession: a State Library of New South Wales perspective
    ANNE DOHERTY and DAGMAR SCHMIDMAIER (State Librarian of New South Wales)
  • Raising Library Salaries in New South Wales, Australia
    PHIL TEECE (Adviser, Industrial Relations and Employment) and JENNEFER NICHOLSON (Executive Director of ALIA)
  • Library building project in Estonia
    Français
    TIIU VALM, (Director General, National Library of Estonia, member of the IFLA Governing Board)
  • Promotion @your library is good politics
    GERALD HODGES (Associate Executive Director, Communication and Marketing, American Library Association)
  • Discussion and closing

Tuesday 16 August

08.30-10.30
104 SI - Division of Libraries Serving the General Public
Partnerships and public libraries
Moderator: Torny Kjekstad, Chair of the Division 105 SI - Preservation & Conservation, Asia & Oceania & PAC & Library Buildings -Part I.
Housing for eternity - sustainable solutions and mistakes to avoid. The role of library buildings in preservation
(Continues: see Part II.) 106 President-Elect's Planning Session - Part I.
(Continues: see Part II.)
A discussion on the important issues relating to Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and libraries, archives and information services with the President-elect and senior Indigenous speakers:
  • ALEX BYRNE, IFLA President-Elect 2003-2005
  • MARTIN NAKATA, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • JOHN HEREMIA MOHI, Kaiwhakahaere Ratonga Mäori, National Library of New Zealand
This session will provide an opportunity to engage with the issues and to consider how IFLA and its members might respond to them.

107 Genealogy and Local History with Geography and Map Libraries - Part I.
Navigating the world of our ancestors
(Continues: see Part II.) 09.00-14.00
108 Education and Training with Library Theory and Research
Off site: Oslo University, College, Oslo
The Nordic tradition in library and information science research and education and international perspectives 10.00-12.00
109 Information Technology with University Libraries and other General Resources
Off site: University of Oslo, Blindern, Helga Engs hus, Auditorium 1
Register for this session; contact: Larry Woods
Course Management Systems and Library Information Systems: Issues of Interoperability
  • The convergence of CMS and the Digital Library: can it happen?
    KENNETH E. DOWLIN (San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose, USA)
  • There be Dragons: course management systems and library systems at SFU Library and the BC Campus
    LYNN COPELAND (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)
  • Interoperability is the answer: a case study
    LOURDES FERIA (University of Colima, Colima, Mexico)
  • Pursuing the vision: adopting and integrating OAI initiatives at Yale
    EMILY HORNING and KALEE SPRAGUE (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
10.45-12.45
110 SI - Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
Equal Access to Libraries = Opportunity for All
Convenor: Joanne Locke jloke@vax2.concordia.ca 111 SI - Preservation & Conservation, Asia & Oceania & PAC & Library Buildings - Part II.
Housing for eternity - sustainable solutions and mistakes to avoid (Programme, see Part I.)

112 Mobile Libraries
A voyage to discovery - libraries on the move 113 President-Elect's Planning Session - Part II.
(Programme, see Part I.)

114 Genealogy and Local History with Geography and Map Libraries - Part II.
Navigating the world of our ancestors
(Programme, see Part I.)

12.00-14.00
115 Poster Sessions

12.45-13.45
116 SI - Plenary Session III.
Chair: Torny Kjekstad, Member of the Governing Board 13.45-15.45
117 SI - Library and Information Science Journals
LIS journals: a voyage of discovery beyond Anglo-American shores 118 SI - Reading
Libraries, literacy and partnerships: voyages and discoveries 119 Acquisitions and Collection Development
Electronic Resources - different approaches for end-users 120 National Associations Meeting

121 UNIMARC with Information Technology
MARC/XML derivates: the state of the art 15.00-18.00
122 Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Off site: Oslo Public Library, (Deichmanske bibliotek) Henrik Ibsens Gate 1
The Multicultural Bazaar. Swap and shop and celebration of the 25th anniversary of the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations
  • New visions for multicultural library services
    KIRSTEN LETH NIELSEN (Oslo Public Library, Oslo, Norway)
  • Swap and Shop
    Seize the opportunity to market your library materials on multicultural issues and pick up a variety of publicity outreach and other resource materials featuring multicultural services and issues from libraries all over the world. Meet librarians from the north and south, east and west and exchange ideas, knowledge and practice. Resource materials can mean just about anything and you can submit both printed and non-printed materials: Promotional items, advertisements, brochures, newsletters, reading programme promotions, services/policy/orientation materials, announcements, web site pages etc.
    Find out more!
16.00-17.00
123 Meet the IFLA Treasurer
Ingrid Parent, Treasurer of IFLA and Peter Lor, Secretary General of IFLA

16.00-18.00
124 SI - School Libraries and Resource Centres
Policy: empowering school libraries 125 SI - Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
Perspectives on supply of electronic documents 126 Metropolitan Libraries
Managing Metropolitan Library Networks
  • Legislated Transformation in a Metropolitan Library: the Ottawa Public Library experience with amalgamation
    BARBARA CLUBB (Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Canada)
  • Strucures de cooperation et de réseau dans un ensemble de bibliothèques non hiérachisé: le cas de Paris (Patterns of cooperation and networking in an non-hierarchical library system: the situation in Paris)
    ALINE GIRARD-BILLON (Paris Public Libraries, Paris, France)
  • TBA
    SUSAN KENT (New York Public Library, New York, USA)
  • Pride and prejudice: Stockholm Public Library in the communication business
    INGA LUNDÉN (Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden)
17.00-18.00
127 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Access to Learning Award 2005

Award Recipient 2005: Bangladesh's Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha

128 Officers Training Session I. (Session is held twice, IFLA Officers are asked to attend one of them)

Wednesday 17 August

08.30-10.30
129 SI - Division of Bibliographic Control
Bibliographic Control: current issues and initiatives
  • Welcome and overview
    BARBARA TILLETT, Chair, Division of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA)
  • IFLA Bibliography Section Activities
    Deutsch Russian Español
    BOHDANA STOKLASOVA, Chair, Bibliography Section (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)
  • IFLA Cataloguing Section Activities
    Français
    GUNILLA JONSSON, Chair, IFLA Cataloguing Section (Kunglige Biblioteket, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • IFLA Classification & Indexing Section Activities
    MARCIA ZENG, CHair, Classification & Indexing Section (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
  • IFLA Knowledge Management Section
    MICHAEL KOENIG (Long Island University, New York, USA)
  • FRANAR and FRSAR Update
    GLENN PATTON, Chair FRANAR (OCLC Inc., Dublin, USA) and MARCIA ZENG, Chair FRSAR (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
  • UNIMARC Update
    ALAN HOPKINSON, Chair UNIMARC Advisory Board
  • IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) update
    Français Deutsch
    RENATE GÖMPEL, Chair ICABS Advisory Board (Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  • Bibliographic control in the Nordic countries
    Deutsch Español Russian
    UNNI KNUTSEN (Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway)
130 SI - Africa
Change in information needs: challenging roles of libraries and information centres in Africa 131 Library Buildings and Equipment
Design for diversity - redesign and new typology for reaching new user groups
  • The new Oslo Public Library project
    LIV SAETEREN (Oslo Public Library, Oslo, Norway)
  • New trends in Danish Library Architecture
    JENS LAURIDSEN (Tårnby Public Library, Denmark)
  • Guidelines for Library Buildings
    HELLEN NIEGAARD (Section for Library Buildings and Equipment, Copenhagen, Denmark)
132 Industry Updates I.
09.30-10.30 Thomson Scientific
Chair: Nancy E. Gwinn, Member of the Governing Board
  • JEFF CLOVIS (Director, Customer Education and Support, the Americas & Europe)

132a E-Learning DG
Making e-learning work - a discussion around the themes of: financial aspects of e-learning; copyright issues in e-learning; the 5 C’s - connectivity, content, capability, conservation, collaboration. 09.00-13.00
132b International Association of Library Centers (IALC)
International cooperation among library suppliers - what's the use of it?
(By invitation only)
Location: Biblioteksentralen, Malerhauveien 20, 0661 Oslo
  • Introduction to the scope of activities of IALC
  • Developments facing the library markets
  • The future cooperation among library suppliers - is there a need for revitalisation? What can we and our customers gain from it
09.30-10.30
132c Information Coordinators Meeting
(By invitation only)

10.45-12.45
133 SI - Bibliography
National bibliography: new tools, new materials 134 SI - Information Technology
Open source software for libraries 135 Campaign for the Worlds Libraries-@ your library
How countries using the '@ your library' campaign to successfully promote libraries in their countries followed by an open information sharing session
  • @lla tua biblioteca
    GIANFRANCO CRUPI (Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Italy)
  • fr@ ditt bibliotek and ieÿ@t girjerádjosis
    TORE ANDERSON (Norsk Bibliotekforening, Norway)
  • TBA
    TBA
136 Industry Updates II. - OCLC
(10:45-11:45)
Chair: Ellen Tise, Member of the Governing Board
  • JAY JORDAN, President and CEO of Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
136a Quality Issues in Libraries DG
Web site quality 10.45-11.45
137 Officers Training Session II.
(Session is held twice, IFLA Officers are asked to attend one of them)

12.00-14.00
115 Poster Sessions

12.45-13.45
138 SI - Plenary Session IV.
Chair: Sissel Nilsen, Member of the Governing Board 13.45-15.45
139 SI - Classification and Indexing with Cataloguing - Part I.
Cataloguing and subject tools for global access: international partnerships
(Continues: see Part II.) 140 SI - Management and Marketing with Information Literacy - Part I.
Information Literacy: a voyage of discovery for citizens
(Continues: see Part II.) 141 Public Libraries
The library as a hotspot
Moderator: KENT SKOV (Chief Librarian, Head of Information, Media and Logistics, Odense Centralbibliotek, Denmark) 142 Health and Biosciences Libraries
Health information for developing countries 143 Asia and Oceania
Digital libraries and sustainability 14.30-16.00
143a International Association of Library Centers (IALC)
Business Meeting (closed meeting)
Location: Biblioteksentralen, Malerhauveien 20, 0661 Oslo

16.00-18.00
144 SI - Classification and Indexing with Cataloguing - Part II.
Cataloguing and subject tools for global access: international partnerships
(Programme, see Part I.)

145 SI - Management and Marketing with Information Literacy - Part II.
Information Literacy: a voyage of discovery for librarians
(Programme, see Part I.)
This discovery is about learning about, and empathising with, your customers. Do you understand what information literacy skills and knowledge citizens already have. How can you discover their needs and wants? What are your assumptions about your own and your customers’ information literacy? This short workshop will encourage you to reflect on your own situation and to exchange experience with others.

Workshop facilitated by:
BILL JOHNSTON (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
CHRISTINA TOVOTE (Stockholm University, Sweden)
SHEILA WEBBER (University of Sheffield, UK)
146 Geography and Map Libraries
Off-site
Basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for librarians
This workshop will be held at the University of Oslo, Gaustad/Blindern Campus, Harriet Holter Hus, PC Lab.
Directions: Take the T-Bane (subway lines #3 or #5, heading west) from Jernbanetorget (Central Station), to the stop for Blindern. It is an 8 minute train ride. When you exit at Blindern, walk up the hill to the campus, cross the street, and walk towards the Humanities Library. Continue to the left, across a courtyard with fountain. Harriet Holters Hus is on the right, about 25 meters after the fountain. The PC Lab is in the basement (Room 035).

147 Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
A world overview of continuing professional development - country reports and issues identified in an international survey of CPD activities 147a Women's Issues
Women and world peace 148 Africa Section
SC II meeting

Thursday 18 August

08.30-10.30
149 SI - Division of Regional Activities
Developing libraries through partnerships - A Panel Discussion 150 SI - ICABS (IFLA/CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards)
Maintaining access to digital collections 151 Public Libraries and the Democratic Process DG
Opinions and ideas about the vital role which libraries play to the fulfilment of a democratic process in countries
Moderator: JENS THORHAUGE (Danish State Library Directorate, Copenhagen, Denmark)

152 Library Theory and Research
An investigation of the role of IFLA in promoting change and diffusing professional norms in libraries with a weight on norms, standards and policies relating to lifelong literacy
  • Progress report on the Australian and New Zealand perspectives
    KERRY SMITH (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia)
  • Progress report on the perspective from the Netherlands
    MARIAN KOREN (Netherlands Public Library Association, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • Progress report from Norway
    RAGNAR AUDUNSON (Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway)
  • Progress report from Northern Africa
    TAREK OUERFELLI (Institut Supérieur de Documentation, Manouba, Tunisia)
153 Audiovisual and Multimedia
Access to audiovisual and Multimedia Materials 10.45-12.45
154 SI - CLM
Libraries and free trade agreements 155 SI - Libraries for the Blind with Public Libraries
Achieving inclusion through partnership 156 Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Parliamentary libraries and research services, a voyage of discovery 157 Statistics and Evaluation with Information Technology and with University and Research Libraries
Measures and standards in the electronic age 158 Agricultural Libraries DG - start-up
Meeting the information needs of farmers in developing countries

Farmers, ranchers, agricultural managers, policy makers, commercial firms, and Non Governmental Organizations should keep abreast of continuing advances in agricultural methods both in developed and developing countries. Major shifts are occurring in the way information is accessed by farmers including diversification of channels through which they receive information. With the advent of Internet reinforced with a variety of web-based information services the boundaries among the users is shrinking. At the same time the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening. It is more so with the liberalization of trade and globalization of economic activities. It is therefore felt desirable to have a forum under the aegis of IFLA to discuss and deliberate agricultural information issues and concerns.
Stephen Katz, Chief WAICENT, Information Dissemination, Management Branch, FAO will be attending this session as a Resourse Person.
Convenor: Deva E. Reddy, devaereddy@tamu.edu

12.45-13.45
159 SI - Plenary Session V.
Chair: Sissel Nilsen, Member of the Governing Board 14.15-15.50
160 SI - Closing Session

16.00-18.00
161 SI - Council II

Friday 19 August 2005

The following SC Meetings are the business meetings of the Standing Committees of IFLA Sections. They may be attended by observers by permission of the chairs which is usually given. They are a good way of getting to know the work of a Section and may lead to direct involvement.

08.00-10.50
162 SC II Public Libraries
163 SC II Art Libraries
164 SC II Genealogy and Local History
165 SC II Classification and Indexing
166 SC II Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
167 SC II Education and Training
168 SC II Management of Library Associations
169 SC II Government Information and Official Publications
170 SC II Information Technology
171 SC II Knowledge Management
172 SC II Reference and Information Services
173 SC II Libraries for Children and Young Adults
174 SC II Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
175 SC II Library Services to Multicultural Populations
176 SC II Reading
177 CLM Business Meeting

11.00-13.50
178 SC II University Libraries and other General Research Libraries
179 SC II Acquisition and Collection Development
180 SC II Cataloguing
181 SC II Government Libraries
182 SC II Libraries for the Blind
183 SC II Bibliography
184 SC II Library Theory and Research
185 SC II Management and Marketing
186 SC II Social Science Libraries
187 SC II Preservation and Conservation
188 SC II Rare Books and Manuscripts
189 SC II School Libraries and Resource Centres
190 FAIFE Committee Meeting
191 SC II Health and Biosciences Libraries
192 SC II Science and Technology Libraries
193 SC II Serial Publications and other continuing Resources

14.00-16.50
194 SC II National Libraries
195 SC II Geography and Map Libraries
196 SC II Audiovisual and Multimedia
197 SC II Library History
198 SC II Newspapers
199 SC II Continuing Professional Development & Workplace learning
200 SC II Information Literacy
201 SC II Library and Research Services for Parliaments
202 SC II Metropolitan Libraries
203 SC II Asia and Oceania
204 SC II Statistics and Evaluation
205 SC II Latin America and the Caribbean
206 SC II Library Buildings and Equipment

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

17.00-19.00
215 FAIFE Advisory Board Meeting

The above mentioned Coordinating Board Meetings (CB II) are the business meetings of the IFLA Divisions. They are not usually open to conference delegates.

Saturday 20 August

All day
216 Governing Board meeting