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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
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
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
- New institutions,
New landscapes: two models of convergence in Canada
 
IAN WILSON (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada) and LISE
BISSONNETTE (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec,
Montréal, Canada)
- Managing National Libraries
in an interconnecting future: insights on an inclusive reference
service and networking - the Singapore experience
FAUZIAH SOERATMAN (Research & Service Innovation, National
Library of Singapore), NGIAN LEK CHOH (National Library of
Singapore, Singapore) SOH LIN LI, (INVENT, National Library Board,
Singapore, Singapore)
- From beer halls and maternity
wards to public library: the story of Naivasha and Karatina
Community libraries, Kenya
IRENE MUTHONI KIBANDI (Kenya National Library Service, Nairobi,
Kenya)
- Webarchiving
Internationally: Interoperability in the future
GRETHE JACOBSEN (Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark)
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
- Challenges in Assisting
Schools of Librarianship and Information Studies in Developing
Countries - A perspective from Research in Latin America
IAN M. JOHNSON (The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Great
Britain)
- Directing students of LIS to
the Wider World of Librarianship
IDA F. PRIYANTO (Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
- Spiral Training:
Information Literacy Skills Development
SUSAN SCHEEPERS and MAUREEN BRASSEL (University of Pretoria,
Pretoria, South Africa)
- The professional
Brazilian library system and its capacity to adapt to changes:
overview
CÉLIA BAPTISTA BELLUZZO and MARCIA ROSETTO (University of the State
of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
- Forging Global Partnerships:
Intercontinental Collaborative Initiatives between LIS
Programs
EDWIN-MICHAEL CORTEZ (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
JOHANNES BRITZ (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA), KENDRA
ALBRIGHT (Sheffield University, UK), ISSAC KIGONGO-BUKENYA
(Makerere University) and NITZA HERNÁNDEZ (University of Puerto
Rico)
- Integration of ICTs
in Library and Information Science Education in sub-Saharan
Africa
MABEL K. MINISHI-MAJANJA (University of South Africa, UNISA, South
Africa)
- Hacia la
Alfabetización Informacional en América Central
ALICE MIRANDA-ARGUEDAS (Heredia, Costa Rica)
- LIS Development and Challenge in
East Asian Countries of Taiwan, Korea, and Japan
CHIHFENG P. LIN (Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan)
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)
- Introduction
CHRISTIANE BARYLA (IFLA PAC Core Activity)
- Collections as Connectors: the story of Sir George Grey's
libraries in South Africa and New Zealand
JOCELYN CUMING (National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New
Zealand) and MELANIE GEUSTYN (South Africa National Library)
- Digitization and conversion of catalogues: cooperation for the
development of local process
BRIGITTE LION (Jouve Digital Cultural Heritage, Paris, France)
ABDERRAHIM AMEUR (Division de la Promotion et du Traitement du
Fonds documentaire, National Library Morroco)
- Challenges of collecting
memories of the liberation struggle in Namibia: a legacy of
post-colonial archives
ELLEN NDESHI NAMHILA (University of Namibia, Namibia)
- South African Liberation
Struggle Living Archive Collection
CLEMENCE PETIT-PERROT, CRAIG MATTHEW (DOXA Productions, Cape Town,
South Africa) and DALE PETERS (Digital Innovation South Africa
(DISA), University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa)
- Archives Sonores du Gabon pour
une Numerisation Durable du Fonds Pepper
FRANCK RENAUD (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement , Bondy, France)
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.
- TBA
ANDREW KANIKI (National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South
Africa)
- Building
Science Information Fluency In African Universities: How Libraries
And Researchers Are Benefiting From Improved Access To Science
Scholarship
BARBARA ARONSON (WHO, Geneva Switzerland), GRACIAN CHIMWAZA (ITOCA,
Harare, Zimbabwe), TANDI EDDA LWOGA (Sokoine National Agricultural
Library, Morogoro, Tanzania), OLIVIA VENT (Cornell University,
USA)
- La bibliothèque de
sciences et technologies : levier de réussite de la réforme
universitaire au Maroc
HANAN ERHIF and LAMYAA BELMEKKI (Association nationale des
informatistes Maroc)
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
- The importance of national
bibliographies in the digital age
INGRID PARENT (Library and Archives, Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
- The new "Guidelines for
national bibliographies in the digital age."
MAJA ZUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- More wine, not enough bottlers: selection and description of
materials in national bibliographies
ALAN DANSKIN (British Library, London, UK) and BEACHER WIGGINS
(Library of Congress, Washington USA)
- Best practices for
subject access to national bibliographies: interim report by the
Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by national
libraries and national bibliographic agencies
FRANÇOISE BOURDON (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)
and PATRICE LANDRY (Swiss National Library, Berne, Switzerland)
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
- The ArtAfrica Project
ANA BARATA (Biblioteca de Arte Fundaçao Galouse Gulbenkian, Lisbon,
Portugal)
- The role of art libraries and
their partners in documenting and preserving the threatened
cultures: the case of Global Memory Net and the World Heritage
Digital Library
CHING-CHIH CHEN (Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA USA)
- The virtual cultural heritage
of Lapland
> ANNE IHALMO (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland)
- The Sami people - a people in four countries. The Sami library
and information service
MAUD ROBERTS (Stockholm University Library, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Navigating the Bookscape:
Artists' Books and the Digital Interface
DAVID PATON (University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein, South
Africa)
- Exhibiting Libraries:
Integrating Information Literacy in the Studio-Based Art &
Design Curriculum
DANIEL PAYNE (Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto,
Canada)
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
- Twice as nice or double
trouble? Bilingual working in the Welsh Assembly Government Library
& Publications Service
REBECCA DAVIES (Assembly Library & Publication Service, Welsh
Assembly Government, Cardiff, Wales)
- South
African Government Library Services and the Batho Pele principles:
how do the 11 (eleven) official languages impact on service
delivery?
T.F. CONSTABLE and MRS.MOTSAROME MABENA (University of South
Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)
- Delivery of Web-based
multi-lingual digital collections and services to multi-cultural
populations: The Case of Global Memory Net
CHING-CHIH CHEN (Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA USA)
- La importancia de la
colaboración entre bibliotecas con colecciones multilingües para
incrementar el número de sus usuarios y mejorar sus
servicios
ARACELI GARCÍA MARTÍN (Biblioteca Hispánica, Madrid, Spain)
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
- Meeting the challenge of "local content" in African public
library services: a national library initiative
LINUS IKPAAHINDI (National Library of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria) and
JOHN AGADA (Emporia State University, Emporia, USA)
- Supporting the
information needs of small and micro businesses: a South African
case study
PETER UNDERWOOD and GALE JABOCS (University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch, South Africa)
- Quelles alternatives pour les
bibliothèques scientifiques africaines face aux défis du XXIe
siècle?
NAFISSATOU BAKHOUM (Bibliothèque de l'Ifan, Cheikh Anta Diop,
Dakar, Senegal)
- Developing a reading culture
among the rural masses of Mwambo, Zomba District, Malawi: a concept
for the 21st Century and beyond
FRANCIS FYSON CHAMBA KACHALA (Chancellor College Library, Zomba,
Malawi)
- ILS: towards an alternative
qualification model for information and libraries in the African
context
JAYA RAJU (Durban University of Technology, Durban, South
Africa)
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
- The politics of resources and conflicts in Africa: a hydro and
geoinformatic analysis of selected regions
PETER OCHOLLA and KALVIN GOVENDER (University of Zululand,
KwaDlangezwa, South Africa)
- Creating unique geological
maps: international resources and services that shape undergraduate
projects
ELIZABETH TILLEY (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
- Maps and Geospatial Data in Africa: Acquisition Challenges,
Copyright and Licensing Challenges, and Other Issues from the Front
Lines
JOSEPH NJANGIRU (East View Cartographics, Minneapolis, USA)
- Maps of Africa in
Russian Libraries
LUDMILA KILDUSHEVSKAYA (National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation)
08.30-10.30, Tuesday
111 E-Learning
E-learning - in search of collaboration and quality
- Applying Moodle to
continuing professional development. "Old" contents in a new
container?
MATILDE FONTANIN (University of Triest, Triest, Italy) and MITJA
ŠVAB (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
- Collaboration and
support: two key ingredients to E-Learning implementation
MARILYN GELL MASON and LISA WOZNIAK (WebJunction, Dublin, Ohio
USA)
- WISE Libraries: Building the
Online Course of the Future
PEGGY BROWN (Instructional Design, School of Information Studies,
Syracuse University), ELLEN FORSYTH (Public Library Services, State
Library of New South Wales), BRUCE KINGMA (Entrepreneurship and
Innovation, Syracuse University) and REBECCA SHAFFER-MANNION
(School of Information Studies, Syracuse University)
- From libraries to e-learning
centres: a South African library experience
VIVIAN AGYEI (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South
Africa)
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
- Oral Histories Online:
the Human Perspective of Historic Boston
MAURA MARX (Boston Public Library, USA), Co-author JOHN DAVID PERRY
(Pittsburgh, USA)
- "It was another
Alexandria": an Oral Narrative of a Cosmopolitan City
SAHAR HAMOUDA (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt)
- Vancouver in 1907: A
Case Study of Archival Film as a Source of Local History
JANET TOMKINS (Vancouver Public Library, Canada), Co-author ANDREW
MARTIN (Vancouver, Canada)
- Developing Digital
Communities: the War Detectives Project
ELAINE FULTON (Scottish Library and Information Council, Hamilton,
Scotland, UK)
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
 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
- Health-related
public library services for women in West Bengal, India
RATNA BANDYOPADHYAY (Calcutta University, Calcutta, India) and
SARBANI GOSWAM (Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India)
- Public libraries
and adult dyslexic customers: A model and its evaluation
RITVA JARVELIN and MARJAANA MERILAINEN (Tampere Public Library,
Tampere, Finland)
- Biblioterapia: experiencias
de la Sala Infantil de la Biblioteca Provincial Julio A. Mella,
Camaguey, Cuba
ZAIDA MONTELLS MENDOZA (Biblioteca Provincial Julio A. Mella,
Camaguey, Cuba)
- Literacy to support
healthy living: CODE's experience with HIV/AIDS issues
SEAN MADDOX (CODE, Ottawa, Canada), ELISABETH SEQUIRA (Associaçao
Progresso, Maputo, Mozambique) and GRAY NYALI (National Library
Services, Lilongwe, Malawi)
- Reading RX: a healthy
dose of knowledge, innovative approaches to addressing health
related issues in public libraries
KATHLEEN IMHOFF (Lexington Public Library Lexington, USA) and
GINNIE COOPER (District of Columbia, Washington, USA)
- Salud tribal en bibliotecas
escolares: tradición oral y expresión cultural
EDGARDO DIEGO CIVALLERO (National University of Córdoba, Córdoba,
Argentina)
- The Rio Grande
Valley of Texas: Issues and Models for Health Informtion for
Youth
BARBARA IMMROTH and BILL LUKENBILL (University of Texas, Austin,
USA)
13.45-15.45, Tuesday
119 SI - Government Information and Official
Publications
Government and science: progress, development and partnerships for
libraries of the future
- Between the devil and the deep
blue sea: how the publishing department of an international
organization tries to address the challenges of information
delivery in a changing environment
VALENTINA KALK (The World Bank, Washington, USA)
- In search of
intergovernmental organisations: the development of an IGO search
engine
DAVID OLDENKAMP and AMALIA MONROE (Indiana University Bloomington
Libraries, Bloomington, USA)
- The United States Department
of Agriculture and Albert R. Mann Library's Economics, Statistics
and Market Information System
NAN HYLAND (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
- Creating library
partnerships: the United Nations' changing role in disseminating
information and knowledge
LINDA STODDART (Dag Hammarskjöld Library, New York, USA)
- Portals for government information delivery: comparative analysis
of information management practices across countries in North and
South in plans, policies and projects
ATANU GARAI (Globethics Net, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Impact of e-government
on management and use of government information in Kenya
NERISA KAMAR and MILLICENT ONGO'NDO (Egerton University, Njoro,
Kenya)
13.45-15.45, Tuesday
120 Agricultural Libraries
Impact of globalisation on small farmers worldwide: implications on
information transfer
- Globalisation and small-scale
farming in Africa: What role for information centres?
L.O. AINA (University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)
- Indigenous
knowledge in Agriculture: A case study of the challenges of sharing
knowledge of past generations in a globalised context in
Uganda
DIANA AKULLO (National Agricultural Research Organization, Entebbe,
Uganda)
- Impact of
globalization on the Information Needs of Farmers in Ghana: A Case
Study of Small-Scale Poultry Farmers
JUSTIN CHISENGA (Food and Agriculture Organisation, Regional Office
for Africa, Accra, Ghana) and CLEMENT ENTSUA-MENSAH And JOEL SAM
(Institute for Scientific and Technological Information, Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana)
- Impact of globalization on
rural communities worldwide: implications on information
transfer
D.E. REDDY (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)
- Impact of globalization
and emerging information and communication technologies on
agricultural knowledge transfer to small farmers in India
I.V. MALHAN and SHIVARAMA RAO(University of Jammu, Jammu,
India)
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
- Usability of public
libraries: perceptions and experiences of new users
ALISON BARLOW and ANNE MORRIS (Loughborough University,
Loughborough, UK)
- Participatory co-design: a
relationship building approach for co-creating libraries of the
future
MARY M. SOMERVILLE (San José State University, San José University,
USA)
- Creating and marketing a
WOW-library
KATHY KUNNEKE (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South
Africa)
- Re-branded and re-positioned
- a WOW-library for the 21st century?
PATRICIA ROBERTS (Jamaica Library Service, Kingston, Jamaica)
- Changes of Riga Central
Library after Regaining Independence of Latvia (1991 - 2007)
DOLORESA VEILANDE (Riga Central Library, Riga, Latvia)
- New forms challenging the contents
INGA LUNDÉN (Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden)
- PANEL DEBATE
Moderator: J. ERIC DAVIES (Loughborough University, Laughborough,
UK)
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?
- The fast track in library
evaluation: the South African experience in higher education
libraries
JOYCE GOZO (Quality Assurance Subcommittee, South Africa)
- Report from a deviating
collaborator: the University of Pretoria's interaction with the
emerging integrated system of quality assurance in South African
Higher Education Libraries
MONICA HAMMES (University of Pretoria, Academic Information
Service, Pretoria, South Africa)
- Quality assurance at the
University of Cape Town Libraries: Do we make a difference?
JOAN RAPP (University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa)
- Institutional Quality
Audit: Experience of the University of the Witwatersrand
Library
FELIX UBOGU(University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South
Africa)and CLARE WALKER (University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa)
08.30-10.30, Wednesday
132 Library Theory and Research
LIS Research and publishing: the African LIS researcher's
story
- Tendances de la recherche nord
africaine en science de l'information: entre la théorie et
l'empirisme
WAHID GDOURA (Manouba University, Tunis)
- LIS research in Africa: how
much is it worth? A citation analysis of the literature,
1986-2006
OMWOYO BOSIRE ONYANCHA (University of Eastern Africa, Baraton,
KwaDlangezwa, South Africa/Eldoret, Kenya)
- Research patterns,
trends and challenges in library and information science in South
Africa. An analysis of journal research and output from
1993-2006
DENNIS N. OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, South Africa and
LYUDMILLA OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, South Africa)
- Library and information science
research in Botswana, an analysis of trends and patterns
KGOMOTSO H. MOAHI (University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)
- Readability as consideration
for book selection criterion in book selection practices in some
academic libraries in Nigeria
GODWIN SHOKI (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
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
- Knowledge-enhancing
Helix: Herausbildung und Entwicklung von Informations- und
Medienkompetenz durch systemgestütztes kollaboratives Arbeiten in
der universitären Ausbildung. Eine Fallstudie.
NADJA BÖLLER, JOSEF HERGET and SONJA HIERL (Swiss Institute for
Information Research, Chur, Switzerland)
- Building a Virtual Learning
Commons: What do YOU want to do?
BETTY BRAAKSMA, KATHY DREWES, GEORGE SIEMENS and PETER TITTENBERGER
(University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
- Second Life
Machinima for Libraries: the intersection of instruction,
outreach and marketing in a virtual world
BERNADETTE DALY SWANSON (University of California, Davis, USA)
- The Reflective Online
Searching Skills (ROSS) Environment: embedding information literacy
into student learning through an online environment.
HELEN PARTRIDGE, SYLVIA EDWARDS, ADNREW BAKER, AND LYNN MCALLISTER
(Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)
09.00-16.00, Wednesday
134 Education and Training - Off-site
Location: University of Kwazulu-Natal Library
Collaboration among LIS schools in Africa
- The Current Status and
Challenges in Library and Information Sciences (LIS) Education and
Training in Africa
DENNIS N. OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, South Africa)
- Collaboration amongst LIS Schools in South Africa
THEO BOTHMA (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) and
JOHANNES BRITZ (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee,
United States)
- Creating
Needs-Responsive LIS Curricula in Africa: A Case Study from
Kenya
JOHN GATHEGI (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA) and PETER
MWATHI (Department of Library Studies, Kenyatta University,
Nairobi, Kenya)
- Linking Teaching and Research in LIS Education in Africa
ANDREW KANIKI (National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South
Africa)
- Collaboration in LIS Education
in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities
SIRJE VIRKUS (Tallinn University, Talinn, Estonia)
- Cultural Mediation in
Library and Information Science (LIS) Teaching and Learning
ISMAIL ABDULLAHI (North Carolina Central University, SLIS, Durham,
United States)
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
- Information
Literacy in Practice: engaging public library workers in rural
South Africa
KARIN DE JAGER and MARY NASSIMBENI (Centre for Information
Literacy, Department of LIS, Cape Town, South Africa)
- Braving Rapids, winding
timber-tracks: towards equitable access to information for
libraries in Sarawak
RASHIDAH BINTY BOLHASSAN (Sarawak State Library, Malaysia)
- What is Community Centre,
Gallerup?
LONE HEDELUND(Arhus Public Library, Denmark)
- Serving Patrons in
Their Language, Not Just Ours
PAUL S. ULRICH (Berlin Central and Regional Library, Germany) and
SUSAN MCGLAMERY (Cooperative Services, OCLC)
- Discussion and questions to speakers
- Cultural Presentation - to be confirmed
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
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
- Babies Guidelines - A
presentation of the Guidelines for Services to Babies and
Toddlers
IVANKA STRICEVIC (Zagreb City Libraries, Croatia) and KATHY EAST
(Wood County District Public Library, Bowling Green, USA)
- Libraries respond to
children in need: Two Model Programs
PAT MULLER (County of Henrico Public Library, Richmond, USA) and
BARBARA GENCO (Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, USA)
- Minority Group in a School
Library
SILVA NOVLJAN (National and University Library, Slovenia)
- Paired Reading - encouraging
reading for pleasure at farm schools through peer tutoring in the
Greater Tzaneen area
CHRISTINE NEL (Greater Tzaneen Library Services, South Africa)
- Public Libraries and their
Communities: South Australia reads
TERESA BROOK (Public Library Services, The State Library of South
Australia)
- Discussion and questions to speakers
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
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
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
- Disaster management in the
cultural heritage sector: a perspective of international activity
from the United Kingdom: lessons and messages
GRAHAM MATTHEWS
(Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)
- Writing a new
chapter - glocalization: creating libraries across the globe - a
case study in Sri Lanka
NEVANKA GOONEWARDENA and MELISSA AHO (Metropolitan State
University, St Paul, Minnesota, USA)
- Cooperative Disaster
Salvage and Recovery in Aotearoa New Zealand: a case study of
vacuum freeze-drying services
PAMELA NAJAR-SIMPSON (National Library of New Zealand, Wellington,
New Zealand)
- Academic Institutions and
Libraries of Pakistani administered Kashmir: a pre and post
earthquake analysis
MAQSOOD AHMAD SHAHEEN (US Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan)
- An analysis of the data
archiving practices of selected scientific agencies in the
Philippines
CARINA C. SAMANIEGO (Manila Observatory, Diliman Quezon City,
Philippines)
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
- Cultural presentation:
Bibliotecas, pueblos
indígenas, identidad e inclusión
EDGARDO DIEGO CIVALLERO (National University of Córdoba, Córdoba,
Argentina)
- Copyright and copyleft: Intellectual property rights in a
socially responsible and culturally diverse world
JAMES HENRI (Faculty of Education Hong Kong and Sandra Lee
Instructor, Faculty of Education, British Columbia, Canada
- Cooperation for Better
Libraries
ANNA-BIRGITTA ERIKSSON (Rinkeby, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Integrating people with
disabilities into mainstream library services
YOUNG SOOK LEE (The National Library of Korea, Korea)
- The IFLA Caterpillar
Project
IAN STRINGER (IFLA Public Libraries Section)
- Discussion and questions to speakers
- Closing remarks - summary
- Short cultural presentation
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
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
- Consolidated
ISBD: A Step Forward
ELENA ESCOLANO RODRÍGUEZ (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain) and
DOROTHY MCGARRY (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Co-operative Cataloguing in
South Africa with Special Reference to the Gauteng and Environs
Library Consortium (GAELIC)
HESTER MARAIS (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South
Africa)
- Implementing Online
Catalogues in African Academic Libraries: The Collaborative Role of
International Partners in Improving Access to Valuable Research
Materials
MARY ADWOA ARKORFUL (University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)
- 5th International Meeting of Experts for an International
Cataloguing Code
BARBARA B. TILLETT (Library of Congress, Washington, USA)
- Cataloguing Section activities
JUDITH KUHAGEN (Library of Congress, Washington, USA)
16.00-18.00, Wednesday
146 Information Technology
Second Life for libraries: Let's give users what they want: user
driven library services
- Knowledge for development a
case study of SARDC's Virtual Library for Southern Africa
ALFRED GUMBWA, PATRICIA MAMVOTO and CHENAI MUFANAWENJINGO (South
African Research & Documentation Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe)
- Technology for providing
materials in 94 world languages: a partnership for user-driven
learning, and improved awareness of the people and events that
shape our world
DAVID K. KARNES, FRANCIS LAJBA and STEPHEN R. SHORB (University of
Nebraska, Omaha, USA)
- Development of a
Library 2.0 service model for an African library
HEILA PEINAAR and INA SMITH (University of Pretoria, Pretoria,
South Africa)
- Gallica 2.0: a second life
for the BnF digital library
CATHERINE LUPOVICI (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris,
France)
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
- Opening of the session
RENATE GÖMPEL (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany)
- Don't turn off the lights,
yet!
CAROLINE BRAZIER (The British Library, Boston Spa, United
Kingdom)
- Library of Congress
controlled vocabularies, the Virtual International Authority File,
and their application to the Semantic Web
BARBARA B. TILLETT and COREY HARPER (Library of Congress,
Washington, USA)
- Reaching new audiences: the
People Australia and Picture Australia projects
at the National Library of Australia
PAMELA GATENBY (National Library of Australia, Canberra,
Australia)
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
- Access to information as a
driver towards closing of the gender equality gap: the emerging
scene in Kenya (Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower
women)
WAMBUI WAGACHA (KIPPRA-Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research
and Analysis, Kenya)
- Empowering teenage girls
through technology (Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and
empower women)
LESLEY FARMER (California State University, Long Beach, Los
Alamitos, USA)
- The Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs): gender gap in information, education and
library access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in local
communities of Nigeria
ADETOUN A. OYELUDE and ADEPEJU O. OTI (University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria)
- Inter-continental, intra-continental partnerships: a women's
network (Goal 8 - Developing a global partnership for
development)
MICHELE M. REID (McDaniel College, Westminster, USA) and FATIMA
DARRIES (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South
Africa)
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
- Culture, Capability and
Character in Applying Evidence to Service Enhancement and
Development: an Exploration
ERIC DAVIES (LISU, Loughborough University, Loughborough,
England)
- Grass Roots Peer
Training: an Evidence-Based Experience
PAULINE MANAKA and CAROL ANN HUGHES (University of California,
Irvine, USA)
- Difusión de la
información en el campo de la conservación del patrimonio cultural:
la adopción del acceso abierto en ICOMOS
IMMA SUBIRATS COLL (FAO of the UN, Rome, Italy) and JOSÉ GARCÍA
VICENTE (ICOMOS Documentation Centre, Paris, France)
- Action-Research application
in Evidence-Based Practice for Libraries
EDGARDO DIEGO CIVALLERO (National University of Córdoba, Córdoba,
Argentina)
- Library and Information
Services to Social Science Researchers: a case study from
India
P.R. GOSWAMI (NASSDOC, ICSSR, India)
10.45-12.45, Thursday
155 Division of Regional Activities with
IFLA/ALP
Libraries at the forefront of grassroots development
- Facilitating
grassroots development: the role of ALP in Division VIII
countries
G.E. GORMAN (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New
Zealand), DANIEL G. DORNER (Victoria University of Wellington,
Wellington, New Zealand) and BIRGITTA SANDELL (IFLA/ALP, Uppsala,
Sweden)
- Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Laws for Indigenous
Information
CHARLES BATAMBUZE
- "It Is Our Help" - A
Community Library In Rural Kwazulu Natal
DESMOND SNOEKS and DLAMINI ZIMBILI (Family Literacy Project,
Durban, South Africa)
- IFLA/ALP y América
Latina: Una alianza sostenida para ampliar el acceso a los
Servicios Bibliotecarios y de información en la región
(IFLA/ALP and Latin America and Caribe: a partnership to extend the
access to information and library services to all the LAC
Region)
CÉSAR AUGUSTO CASTRO ALIAGA (IFLA/LAC, Lima, Perú)
- Educating Information Literacy
Educators in Asia-Oceania
DANIEL G. DORNER (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington,
New Zealand)
- An information skills package for the South Pacific
LIVIANA TABALALA and PAULA JONES (University of the South Pacific
Library)
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
- Audio description text
for indexing films
JAMES M. TURNER (Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada) and
SUZANNE MATHIEU (Ville de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- User tagging of library
resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation
JONATHAN FURNER (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Taxonomy Directed
Folksonomy: integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies
for Australian education networks
SARAH HAYMAN (education.au, Adelaide, Australia) and NICK LOTHIAN
(education.au, Adelaide, Australia)
- Greater subject
access to Dewey Decimal Classification's notation, with special
reference to Indonesia's geography, period and language
notations
L. SULISTYO-BASUKI (Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia)
10.45-12.45, Thursday
158 Division of Education and Research
The internet, libraries and the changing information behaviour:
perspectives for research and education
- Libraries for a Global
Networked World: Toward New Educational and Design
Strategies
ROBERT M. MASON and TABITHA HART (University of Washington,
Seattle, USA)
- Changing information
behaviour: education, research and relationships
JUDITH BROADY-PRESTON (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)
- Role of third world
libraries in academic institutions in an environment of the IT
revolution: lessons from the University of Zimbabwe's ILS training
programme
ENOCH CHIPUNZA (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
- Predictable and
Unpredictable Patterns: Adoption, Avoidance and Alteration in
Danish Research Libraries
CARL GUSTAV JOHANNSEN (Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Information
Literacy Applied on Electronic Resources - Practices from Brasov,
Romania and Bergen, Norway
ANGELA REPANOVICI (Transilvania University Library of Brasov,
Romania) and ANE LANDOY (University of Bergen Library, Bergen,
Norway)
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
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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
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