Monday, August 20, 2001

Library and Research Services for Parliaments: Research Seminar

Seminar co-ordinator: Dr J R Verrier, Head, Australian Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Parliament of Australia

Panel 1: 'How parliamentary research services have evolved: how they were created, to whom do they report (then and now) and how their charter has changed'

  1. The role of the Directorate of Studies in the Legislative Work of the Hellenic Parliament
    STAVROULA VASSILOUNI (Research Fellow, Directorate of Studies, Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece)
  2. Integration of Information Services in the Parliament of Zimbabwe
    LYN CHIWANDAMIRA (Head, Parliamentary Information Provision and Analysis Service, Parliament of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe)
  3. Establishing a research service in the Norwegian parliament: why the right time was now
    BRIT FLØISTAD (Head, Research Service of the Norwegian Parliament, Oslo, Norway)
  4. Challenges and opportunities to deliver research services to parliamentarians in the Japanese Diet
    MICHIYO TAKEDA (Legislative Reference and Information Resources Division, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)
Panel 2: 'The Case for and the Case against Separate Parliamentary Library and Research Services in the Context of the Continuum debate'
  1. Friends or fences: relationships matter more than structures
    MOIRA FRASER (Parliamentary Librarian, Parliamentary Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand)
  2. Functioning of the Bureau of Research as a Separate Unit of Parliamentary Services: Obstacles and Challenges
    DONNA SCHEEDER (Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, USA)
Panel 3: 'The comparative advantage of parliamentary research services in changing political contexts and a competitive information environment'
  1. Essential information for post-encyclopaedic parliaments: the Italian case
    GIOVANNI RIZZONI (Chamber of Deputies, Rome, Italy)
  2. The "disadvantaged" or "special" legislator client: the parliamentary research service's challenge
    KOSI KEDEM (Member of Parliament, Parliament of Ghana, Accra, Ghana)
  3. One of a kind: parliamentary information and research services for parliamentarians - and Australian Senator tells
    ROSEMARY CROWLEY (Senator, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, Australia)

Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Theme: 'Parliamentary and Legislative electronic libraries in co-operation'

  1. Toward the electronic parliamentary library in the context of the European Union
    La bibliothèque parlementaire électronique dans le contexte de l'Union européenne
    Aufbau einer elektronischen Parlamentsbibliothek für die Europäische Union
    Russian text
    Hacia la biblioteca parlamentaria electrónica en el contexto de la Unión Europea
    DICK TOORNSTRA (Director of Parliamentary Documentation and International Cooperation, European Union, Brussels, Belgium)
  2. The web-site library and its parliamentary information and dissemination services: case study of the Parliamentary Library of Taipei, Taiwan, China
    Bibliothèque sur le Web et services parlementaires d'information et de diffusion: Étude de cas de la bibliothèque du Parlement de Taipei, Taiwan, Chine
    Die Website-Bibliothek und ihre Informationsdienste für das Parlament: Eine Fallstudie der Parlamentsbibliothek von Taipei, Taiwan, China
    Russian text
    La biblioteca virtual y sus servicios parlamentarios de información y difusión: Estudio de caso de la Biblioteca Parlamentaria de Taipei, Taiwán, China
    KARL MIN KU (Head, Library and Information Service, Legislative Yuna, Taipei, Taiwan, China)
  3. Making a difference in the knowledge age at the New Zealand Parliamentary Library
    Faire la différence à l'ère du savoir à la Bibliothèque parlementaire de Nouvelle-Zélande
    Die neuseeländische Parlamentsbibliothek im Wissenszeitalter
    Russian text
    Innovación en la era del conocimiento en la Biblioteca Parlamentaria de Nueva Zelandia
    MOIRA FRASER (Librarian, Parliament of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand)

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