22 September 2011
Minutes of the meetings and conference proceedings of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The minutes of the two meetings of the Section in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of the last IFLA’s Congress, have been published online:
You can have a look and stay tuned for the last activities of the section, including the recent election of new Officers for 2011-2013.
Concerning the proceedings from the three sessions co-sponsored by the Government Libraries Section, they are available as well:
Session 105, ”Political and constitutional status of Puerto Rico: a continuing challenge”
- Puerto Rico’s legal and political relationship with the United States: a brief historical review
EFRÉN RIVERA RAMOS (University of Puerto Rico Law School, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA) - Puerto Rico’s position within the United States system of government
JOSÉ JULIÁN ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ (University of Puerto Rico Law School, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA)
These proceedings are not available.
Session 124, ”e-Government: the role of librarians”
- Helping bridge the digital divide in Romania – how IREX’s Biblionet Program and Romania’s public libraries increasingly afford access to e-Government services to digitally excluded citizens
Translations: [Français]
PAUL BARAN and SCOTT ANDERSEN (IREX Biblionet Romania, Bucharest, Romania) - The status of ministries’ website of Middle Eastern countries in achieving e-Government
MOHADDESH DOKHTESMATI (Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC) Tehran, Iran), MARYAM SABERI (Semnan University, Mahdishahr, Semnan, Iran) and SHIMA MORADI Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran) - Institutional Repository of the Ministry of Education of Argentina: bringing educational management closer to citizenship
GRACIELA PERRONE and MARTA GONZÁLEZ DEL VALLE (Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Gov Docs kids group and free government information
Translations: [Русский] [Español] [中文]
TOM ADAMICH (Visiting Library Service, New Philadelphia, OH, USA), MARTHA CHILDERS, KATHRYN DAVIS and JOHN H. FARIA (USA)
Session 194, “Promoting global access to law: developing and open access index for official, authenticated legal information“
- Mapping the world of digital legal information
RADU D. POPA (New York University School of Law Library, New York, NY, USA) - The digital legal landscape in South America: government transparency and access to information
TERESA MIGUEL (Yale Law Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) - Mapping the digital legal resources of Mexico, Central America, the Spanish speaking Caribbean and Haiti
MARISOL FLOREN (Florida International University (FIU) College of Law Library, Miami, Florida, USA) - Access to digital legal information: focus on the English-speaking Caribbean countries
YEMISI DINA (Osgoode Hall Law School Library, York University, Toronto, Canada)
