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2003-2007 Conference Proceedings

Durban, South Africa, 2007

Information Technology, National Libraries with ICABS
National libraries and resource discovery strategies - local, national and global

• Resource Discovery at the British Library: New Strategic Directions
  
  CAROLINE BRAZIER (The British Library, Boston Spa, UK)
• Rapid and easy access: finding and getting resources in Australian libraries and cultural institutions
  
  PAM GATENBY (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)
• The European Digital Library - a resource discovery strategy for libraries, museums and archives
  ELISABETH NIGGEMANN (Deutsche Nationalbibliotek, Germany)
• Libraries 2.0 and user-generated content: what can the users do for us?
  
  PATRICK DANOWSKI (Staatsbibliotek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

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)

Seoul, Korea 2006

Information Technology with Audiovisual and Multimedia and National Libraries
New Access Technologies: Exploring the Heritage

• Multilingual access to moving image collections
  MARWA EL SAHN (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt)
• DAISY, a better way to read, a better way to publish - a contribution of libraries serving persons with print disabilities
  
  HIROSHI KAWAMURA (National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Researsch Instistute, Tokorozawa, Japan)
• Combining difference access options for image databases
  
  MARTIN LEUENBERGER and NIKLAUS STETTLER and SILKE GROSSMANN and JOSEF HERGET (University of Applied Science (HTW), Chur, Switzerland)
• Pushing the boundaries of traditional heritage policy: maintaining long-term access to multimedia content by introducing emulation and contextualization instead of accepting inevitable loss.
  GRÉGORY MIURA (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)

New Access Technologies: Tomorrow's Retrieval (ITS)

• Using Tomorrow's Retrieval Technology to Explore the Heritage: Bonding Past and Future in the Case of Global Memory Net
   
  CHING-CHIH CHEN (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston (MA), USA)
• New innovative access to educational and cultural multimedia contents
  
  TAKASHI NAGATSUKA and YUKA EGUSA (Institute for Educational Policy Research, Japan)
• Challenges in automated classification using library classification schemes
   
  KWAN YI (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)
• Towards constructing a Chinese information extraction system to support innovations in library services
  
  ZHANG ZHIXIONG, LI SA, WU ZHENGXIN, LIN YING (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Science and Technology Libraries with Information Technology
Workings of the ubiquitous library - Will all library services and content be available to anyone, anywhere at anytime?

• The ubiquitous library for the blind and physically handicapped: a case study of the LG Sangnam Library, Korea
     
  KYUNG-JAE BAE (LG Sangnam Library, Seoul, Korea)
• e-Research and the ubiquitous open grid digital libraries of the future
     
  VIVEK N. PATKAR (the ICFAI Business School, Mumbai, India) and SMITA CHANDRA (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, New Mumbai, India) and
• The implementation of the RFID System for improving customized service: the case of the National Library of Korea
       
  KIM SUE JEOUNG (National Library of Korea, Seoul, Korea)
• Building the ubiquitous library in the 21st century
     
  LILI LI (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro (GA), USA)

Information Technology with National Libraries with Academic and Research Libraries and Knowledge Management (part 1)
Institutional Repositories: policies, implementation issues, an overview of the technologies

• The repository movement: advancing from institutional portal to institutional commons to institutional enterprise
  JAMES NEAL (Columbia University, New York, USA)
• Institutional repositories and stewardship in an historical and ethical context
  WALLACE KOEHLER (Valdosta State University, Valdosta (GA), USA)
• Directories of international repositories: research results and recommendations
  
  KATE OLIVER and ROBERT SWAIN (John Hopkins University, USA)
• A national framework supporting local creation: New Zealand's institutional repository story
  PENNY CARNABY (National Library of New Zealand, New Zealand)
• Open access, institutional repositories and the digitization of cultures
  JEAN-CLAUDE GUEDON (Montreal University, Montreal, Canada)
• The role of a national library in supporting research information infrastructure
  
  WARWICK CATHRO (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)
• Institutional repositories: a review of content recruitment strategies
  
  TIMOTHY MARK and KATHLEEN SHEARER (CARL, Ottawa, Canada)

Oslo, Norway 2005

Information Technology with University Libraries and other General Resources
Off site: University of Oslo, Blindern, Helga Engs hus, Auditorium 1
Course Management Systems and Library Information Systems: Issues of Interoperability

1. 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)
2. There be Dragons: course management systems and library systems at SFU Library and the BC Campus
   LYNN COPELAND (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)
3. Interoperability is the answer: a case study
   LOURDES FERIA (University of Colima, Colima, Mexico)
4. Pursuing the vision: adopting and integrating OAI initiatives at Yale
   EMILY HORNING and KALEE SPRAGUE (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

UNIMARC with Information Technology
MARC/XML derivates: the state of the art

1. An XML representation of the UNIMARC Manual: a working prototype
   JOAQUIM RAMOS DE CARVALHO (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
2. MARC XML sampler
   SALLY McCALLUM (Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA)
3. UNIMARX/XML Slim Schema: living in a new environment
   VLADIMIR SKVORTSOV, OLGA ZHLOBINSKAYA and ALLA PASHKOVA (National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
4. Delivering MARC/XML records from the Library of Congress catalogue using the open protocols SRW/U and Z39.50
   
   MIKE TAYLOR (Index Data, London, UK) and ADAM DICKMEISS (Index Data, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Information Technology
Open source software for libraries

1. Open Source Software - definition, licensing models and organisational consequences (introduction)
   
   REINHARD ALTENHÖNER (Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
2. The coming revolution in library software
   
   DAVID DORMAN (Index Data, Middletown, USA)
3. NII-IPR: National Portal to Nation-Wide University Institutional Repositories Network Utilizing Open Source Software
   NORIKO KANDO and SHIGEKI SUGITA (National Informatics Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
4. Delivering Sizzling Services and Solid Support with Open Source Software
   
   ROGER EVANS (Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway)

Buenos Aires, Argentina 2004

The theme of the Section's programme at the IFLA Conference in Argentina was Authentication and authorisation for cross-domain e-library services. The aim of the programme was to promote awareness and discussion about current developments and trends in authentication and authorization related to library services. Papers presented were the following:

1. Facilitate access to e-resources with Eduserv Athens
   Faciliter l'accès aux ressources électroniques grâce a Athènes d'Eduserv
   Facilitar el acceso a recursos electrónicos con Eduserv Athens
   LYN NORRIS (Eduserv, London, UK)
2. Shibboleth: an open-source solution to resource sharing
   Shibboleth: système open source de partage de ressources
   Shibboleth: Una solución de Código Libre para compartir recursos
   MARIANNE AFIFI (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
3. Nace una estrella: la Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Technologia
   A star is born: the science and technology electronic library
   ALEJANDRA CHAVEZ FLORES (Comisión Nacional de Energia Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina), NORA FASANO (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina), CECILIA MABRAGANA (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and MERCEDES PORTUGAL (Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innivación Productiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Berlin, Germany 2003

The 69th IFLA Conference was held in Berlin from 1st -9th August 2003 on the theme of Access point library: media, information, culture. The ITS Committee organised or was involved in the following:

ITS open session on the topic of Wireless Technologies for Library Services - RFID in Use with papers from:

1. RFID in libraries - introduction to the issues
   MATS G. LINDQUIST (Göteborg University Library, Göteborg, Sweden)
2. Experiences in implementing RFID solutions in a multi-vendor environment
   VINOD CHACHRA (VTLS Inc., Blacksburg, USA)
3. Integrating RFID into library systems - myths and realities
   ALASTAIR McARTHUR (Tagsys, La Penne sur Huveaune, France)
4. RFID@Library - A Journey That Saves S$50m
   CHAN PING WAH (National Library Board, Singapore)

Joint workshop with University Libraries Section on the topic of The Scholar's Portal: an international perspective with papers from:

1. Introductions, Overview
   LARRY WOODS (Information Technology and Branch Libraries, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City USA)
2. The Scholars Portal Project
   MARY E. JACKSON (Association of Research Libraries, Washington DC, USA)
3. The AARLIN Project: Integrating the research information infrastructure- a case study EARLE GOW (Latrobe University, Victoria, Australia) and
   KATE ROBERTS (AARLIN Project, Latrobe University, Victoria, Australia)
4. Portals: What's good, what's missing, what's planned - a vendor panel
   SARA RANDALL (Endeavor) MATT GOLDNER (Fretwell/Downing) and JENNY WALKER (Ex Libris-USA)
5. Portals: What's good, what's missing, what's needed - a user panel
   KAREN CALHOUN (Associate University Librarian, Cornell University), KRIS MALONEY (University of Arizona), JIRI PAVLIK (Charles University, Prague)

Joint workshop with Preservation and Conservation Section on the topic of Digitisation Preservation: current research, standards and best practices with papers on the following

1. Challenges to digital preservation and building the digital library
   SEAMUS ROSS (HATII & ERPANET, Glasgow, UK)
2. Attributes of a trusted digital repository
   MEG BELLINGER (OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources, Dublin, USA)
3. Digital preservation activities in the UK - building the infrastructure
   MAGGIE JONES (Digital Preservation Coalition Co-ordinator, UK)
4. Towards a global digital format registry
   STEPHEN L. ABRAMS (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) and DAVID SEAMAN (Digital Library Federation, Washington, USA)

1. pre- conference satellite meeting in conjunction with DCMI on Converging, complementary or other forms of describing Internet/Digital Objects: DCMI, IFLA and other communities' (museums, archives, industries, governments) standards and guidelines

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