4 August 2010
Lecture of the Law Libraries Section in Göteborg
Conference
Session 96
Law
Libraries, Government Libraries and Government Information and Official
Publications
12
August 2010 13:45 - 15:45
Creating an
international legal information policy agenda: issues and challenges
Speakers from the sections
on Law Libraries, Government Libraries, and Government & Official
Publications will introduce an important topic, and then chair round table
sessions where participants will discuss the impact of these topics on their
services, and consider the role of IFLA and other partners in finding
solutions. The outcome of these discussions is to create an information policy
agenda for the section(s).
Chair and moderator: BLAIR KAUFFMAN (Yale Law School,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
- Future of law
collections (print/electronic)
RADU POPA (New York University School of Law Library, New York, New York,
USA) - Online access to government
information worldwide
JERRY MANSFIELD (Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C., USA) - Open access in law
JULES WINTERTON (Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, United
Kingdom) - ILL, document delivery, and
copyright issues
FRANK HURINVILLE (Cujas Library, Paris, France) - Authentication and preservation of
digital law
CLAIRE M. GERMAIN (Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, USA) - Legal research competency
HOLGER KNUDSEN (Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales
Privatrecht, Bibliothek, Hamburg, Germany) and BLAIR KAUFFMAN (Yale Law
School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) - Professional development and training
of librarians
ELEANOR FRIERSON (National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland USA)
Conference Session 105
Government
Libraries, GIOPS, Knowledge Management, Preservation and Conservation and Law
Libraries
13
August 2010 09:30 - 12:45
Librarians in action: Information policy and human rights
- Introduction to the Program
CLAIRE M. GERMAIN (Cornell University School of Law, New York, USA)
Sustaining the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
AYODEJI FADUGBA (United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania)
Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons)
ELSA BARBER (Biblioteca Nacional Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - The road to unity and social justice: gathering, accessing and preserving Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) records
REGGIE RAJU (J S Gericke Library, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) - The U.S. 9/11 Commission Records: history, collection access, and issues
JERRY W. MANSFIELD (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA)