Programme and Proceedings

Thursday 15 August 2013

12:00 - 14:00
Conference Advisory Committee
14:00 - 16:00
Finance Committee
16:00 - 18:00
Executive Committee

Friday 16 August 2013

08:30 - 11:00
Professional Committee
11:30 - 17:00
Governing Board

Saturday 17 August 2013

08:00 - 09:30
Leadership Brief for all Section Officers
09:00 - 12:30
Academic and Research Libraries
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Acquisition and Collection Development
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Statistics and Evaluation
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Social Science Libraries
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Information Technology
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Genealogy and Local History
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Libraries for Children and Young Adults
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Serials and Other continuing Resources
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Education and Training
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Cataloguing
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Management and Marketing
09:45 - 12:15
SC I Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
09:45 - 12:15
SC I School Libraries and Resource Centers
09:45 - 12:15
ALP Advisory Committee Meeting
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Newspapers
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Art Libraries
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Rare Books and Manuscripts
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Management of Library Associations
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Audiovisual and Multimedia
12:30 - 15:00
FAIFE Committee Meeting
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Science and Technology Libraries
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Bibliography
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Government Information and Official Publications
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Library Services to People with Special Needs
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Literacy and Reading
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Health and Biosciences
12:30 - 15:00
SC I Library Theory and Research
12:30 - 15:00
Preservation and Conservation Programme (PAC) Core Activity - Business Meeting
13:00 - 17:30
SC I Library Services to Multicultural Populations
15:15 - 17:45
SC I National Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Public Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Academic and Research Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Library Buildings and Equipment
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Classification and Indexing
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Government Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Preservation and Conservation
15:15 - 17:45
CLM Committee Meeting
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Information Literacy
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Reference and Information Services
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Metropolitan Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Law Libraries
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Knowledge Management
15:15 - 17:45
SC I Library and Research Services for Parliaments
16:30 - 17:30
Caucus: Community Across Borders — ASEAN Countries (Association of South East Asian Nations)
17:45 - 18:45
Caucus: Africa, Asia & Oceana and Latin America and the Caribbean
17:45 - 18:45
Caucus: Canada
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Netherlands Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Spanish Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Chinese Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: UK
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: German Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Portuguese Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: USA
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: French Speaking Participants
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Nordic Countries
18:30 - 19:30
Caucus: Korean Speaking Participants
19:00 - 22:00
IFLA Officers Reception

Sunday 18 August 2013

08:30 - 10:00
Division Leadership Forum: Div. I - Library Types
08:30 - 10:00
Division Leadership Forum: Div. III - Library Services
08:30 - 10:00
Division Leadership Forum: Div. V - Regions
08:30 - 10:00
Division Leadership Forum: Div. II - Library Collections
08:30 - 10:00
Division Leadership Forum: Div. IV - Support of the Profession
08:30 - 10:00
Newcomers Session
10:30 - 12:00
Opening Session
12:00 - 13:45
President’s Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
IFLA Market: @your library
12:15 - 13:30
IFLA Market: What your Section can achieve – planning and strategy — IFLA Market
12:15 - 13:30
Committee on Standards Meeting I
12:15 - 13:30
IFLA Market: How to get published in journals
12:15 - 13:30
IFLA Market: Haiti three years after the earthquake - the never ending story — Preservation and Conservation
13:45 - 14:45
Caucus: Arab countries
13:45 - 15:45
The library and the city — Library buildings and Equipment
13:45 - 15:45
Building a learning and knowledge sharing organisation — Information Technology, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Knowledge Management
13:45 - 15:45
Journal use statistics: an overview of the COUNTER Usage Factor project — E-metrics Special Interest Group
13:45 - 15:45
Africa – SC I
13:45 - 15:45
Latin America and the Caribbean – SC I
13:45 - 15:45
Re-defining international relations — National Organizations and International Relations Special Interest Group
13:45 - 15:45
Libraries and social movements: a force for change — Social Science Libraries
13:45 - 15:45
Marketing on a shoe string — Management and Marketing
13:45 - 15:45
Asia and Oceania – SC I
14:00 - 16:00
IFLA Strategic Partners’ Meeting
16:00 - 18:00
Exhibition Opening and Opening Party

Monday 19 August 2013

08:30 - 09:15
Plenary Session: IFLA Trend Report
08:30 - 18:00
Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context — Rare Books and Manuscripts with Asia and Oceania
09:30 - 11:30
National library and information policy as advocacy of future libraries — National Information and Library Policy Special Interest Group with National Libraries
09:30 - 12:45
Exploring an e-book future (e-book lending models, copyright and other issues) — Copyright and other Legal Matters with Management of Library Associations
09:30 - 12:45
School Libraries and Information for Civic Literacies — School Libraries with Information Literacy
09:30 - 12:45
Diversity in libraries: research reflecting theoretical approaches and practical experimentation — Library Theory and Research
09:30 - 12:45
Agile management: strategies for achieving success in rapidly changing times — Knowledge Management with Academic and Research Libraries
09:30 - 12:45
Libraries as learning organisations: how to nurture growth in our staff and our communities — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning with Education and Training
09:30 - 12:45
Accessibility: Hi Tech for Access — Library Services to People with Special Needs
10:00 - 11:30
Future libraries going green — Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group
10:00 - 17:00
AV Collections for Non-Specialist Librarians — Audiovisual and Multimedia
12:00 - 14:00
Poster Sessions
13:45 - 15:45
Future Libraries – Future Librarians – Future Skills: Directions for the education and training of children’s and youth librarians - the challenge of identifying competencies and encouraging professional development in the digital age — Libraries for Children and Young Adults
13:45 - 15:45
Preserving our past for the future – the importance of long term preservation for the cultural heritage sector — UNESCO
13:45 - 15:45
Exploring an e-book future (e-book lending models, copyright and other issues). World café — Public Libraries with Metropolitan Libraries
13:45 - 15:45
Collaboration in Collections: Libraries, Users and Information Providers — Acquisition and Collection Development
13:45 - 15:45
Inspiring solutions emerging from open source — Information Technology
16:00 - 17:00
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: 2013 Access to Learning Award
16:00 - 18:00
Subject access: Infinite possibilities — Classification and Indexing
16:00 - 18:00
Semantic Web and Linked data for libraries : issues, solutions, realizations — Semantic Web Special Interest Group
16:00 - 18:00
Bring out the fun of it! New ways of teaching and communicating statistics — Statistics and Evaluation with Education and Training
16:00 - 18:00
Knowledge Café: taxonomies & metadata rule — Knowledge Management with Library and Research Services for Parliaments
16:00 - 18:00
Future libraries going green — Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group

Tuesday 20 August 2013

08:00 - 09:30
Latin America and the Caribbean - SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Library Services to Multicultural Populations - SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Management and Marketing –SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Preservation and Conservation – SC II
08:30 - 09:15
Plenary Session
08:30 - 18:00
Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL)
09:30 - 10:30
IFLA Highlights
09:30 - 11:30
Libraries as partners for better health outcomes — Health and Biosciences
09:30 - 12:45
Indigenous knowledge and multiculturalism in LIS education and library training: Infinite possibilities — Education and Training with Library Services to Multicultural Populations and Indigenous Matters Special Interest Group
09:30 - 12:45
Macro and micro - ways through the maze. How new methods of indexing and cataloguing can complement traditional cataloguing for audiovisual and multimedia — Audiovisual and Multimedia with Cataloguing
09:30 - 12:45
Open Access to official and authenticated legal information in Asia — Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Library and Research Services for Parliaments
09:45 - 11:15
Knowledge Management – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Library Buildings and Equipment – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Classification and Indexing – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Metropolitan Libraries – SC II
10:45 - 12:45
Professional Units Key Initiatives Session
11:45 - 12:45
Information Coordinators & Web Editors (1)
11:45 - 12:45
Presentation of the Digitization Guidelines — Rare Books and Manuscripts
11:45 - 13:45
Search, find and read: three steps to access; what has the future library to offer the print disabled? — Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
12:00 - 14:00
Poster Sessions
12:45 - 13:45
Presentation of Awards
13:15 - 14:45
Public Libraries – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Library Theory and Research – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Information Literacy – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Reference and Information Services – SC II
13:30 - 17:00
Young adults and libraries : innovation, involvement, self-realization — Libraries for Children and Young Adults
13:45 - 14:45
Libraries and Development in Asia — Beyond Access
13:45 - 15:45
Officers Training Session 1
13:45 - 15:45
Education and training for agricultural library and information professionals: an international perspective — Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group
13:45 - 15:45
Opening up the bibliography for the future — Bibliography
13:45 - 15:45
Tools developed for a better sharing of religious information — Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group
13:45 - 18:00
Preserving for the future: Integrating physical and digital preservation — Information Technology with Preservation and Conservation, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Library and Research Services for Parliaments
15:00 - 16:30
Government Libraries – SC II
15:00 - 16:30
Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning – SC II
15:00 - 16:30
Law Libraries – SC II
15:00 - 16:30
Education & Training – SC II
16:00 - 18:00
Future libraries - multiple futures — Asia and Oceania
16:00 - 18:00
Change as a constant: infinite possibilities for reference and information services — Reference and Information Services
16:00 - 18:00
National Association Members Meeting
16:00 - 18:00
Hot topics in academic and research libraries — Academic and Research Libraries
16:00 - 18:00
News for the future: dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving — Newspapers
16:45 - 18:15
Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities SC II
16:45 - 18:15
Acquisitions and Collection Development – SC II
19:00 - 23:00
Cultural Evening

Wednesday 21 August 2013

08:00 - 09:30
Library Services to People with Special Needs – SC II
08:30 - 09:15
Plenary Session
09:00 - 12:30
Crossing boundaries: art libraries, museums and archives in a global context — Art Libraries
09:30 - 11:30
Development initiatives for strong library communities: IFLA ALP — Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA)
09:30 - 11:30
Gold mining! Text and data mining of journals: librarians, publishers and researchers excavating the treasure trove — Serials and Other Continuing Resources
09:30 - 11:30
Future African Libraries: innovation and creativity in services — Africa
09:30 - 11:30
Libraries, readers, and book culture in Asia: New perspectives in Information and global history — Library History Special Interest Group
09:30 - 11:30
Government libraries as voices for open government — Government Libraries with Law Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications
09:30 - 12:45
On the way to Freedom of access — Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
09:45 - 11:15
Libraries for Children and Young Adults - SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Rare Books and Manuscripts – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Science and Technology Libraries – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Bibliography – SC II
11:30 - 13:00
Genealogy and Local History – SC II
11:30 - 13:00
Social Science Libraries – SC II
11:30 - 13:00
Library and Research Services for Parliaments – SC II
11:30 - 13:00
School Libraries and Research Services – SC II
11:45 - 13:15
OCLC Parallel Symposium: Collective Impact and the Power of Shared Data
11:45 - 13:45
Future standards: infinite possibilities — Committee on Standards
11:45 - 13:45
Officers Training Session 2
11:45 - 13:45
Taking charge of your career: a workshop — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
11:45 - 13:45
Intergenerational Literacies: texto – techno — Literacy and Reading with Information Literacy
13:15 - 14:45
National Libraries – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Academic and Research Libraries - SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Government Information and Official Publications – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Africa – SC II
13:45 - 15:45
Research resources for Parliamentarians — Library and Research Services for Parliaments
13:45 - 15:45
Library and information professionals improving the lives of women in Asia Oceania — Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group
13:45 - 15:45
Project presentations – IFLA International Leaders Programme — Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)
13:45 - 15:45
Bring out the fun of it! New ways of teaching and communicating statistics — Statistics and Evaluation with Education and Training
13:45 - 15:45
Cultural heritage preservation in Asia: Innovation in cooperation — Preservation and Conservation Programme (PAC) Core Activity
13:45 - 15:45
IFLA projects “The World through Picture Books” and “Sister Libraries”: new developments and how to benefit from the project — Libraries for Children and Young Adults
14:00 - 16:15
Literacy and Reading - SC II
16:15 - 18:00
General Assembly

Thursday 22 August 2013

08:00 - 09:30
Newspapers - SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Information Technology – SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Management of Library Associations - SC II
08:00 - 09:30
Serials and Other Continuing Resources - SC II
08:00 - 09:30
CLM Committee Meeting II
08:30 - 10:30
Education and training for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine) librarianship: an international perspective — Science and Technology Libraries
08:30 - 10:30
Strengthening access to information: the future of resource sharing — Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
08:30 - 10:30
LIS Education in Developing Countries: Collaboration Across Borders as Infinite Possibilities — LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Groups
08:30 - 10:30
Digital collection strategies at National Libraries: challenges and opportunities — National Libraries
08:30 - 10:30
Strong Libraries, Strong Societies: Libraries promoting development — President-Elect’s Session
08:30 - 11:30
Images, lost and found: innovative approaches to discovery and use of visual material found in rare books, manuscripts, and special collections — Art Libraries with Rare Books and Manuscripts
09:45 - 11:15
Cataloguing – SC II
09:45 - 11:15
Committee on Standards Meeting II
09:45 - 11:15
Statistics and Evaluation - SC II
09:45 - 11:15
FAIFE - Committee Meeting II
10:45 - 12:45
Building the future in Latin America and the Caribbean: local priorities and global opportunities / Construyendo el futuro en América Latina y el Caribe: prioridades locales y oportunidades globales — Latin America and the Caribbean
10:45 - 12:45
Open Access in the context of full lifecycle of Knowledge Management — Knowledge Management
10:45 - 12:45
International agreements that influence national policy framework for exceptions and limitations for libraries — Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM)
10:45 - 13:00
New librarians global connection: best practices, models and recommendations — New Professionals Special Interest Group with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
11:30 - 13:00
Asia and Oceania – SC II
11:30 - 13:00
Document Delivery and Resource Sharing - SC II
11:45 - 12:45
Information Coordinators & Web Editors (2)
13:15 - 14:45
Audiovisual and Multimedia – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Health and Biosciences Libraries – SC II
13:15 - 14:45
Art Libraries – SC II
13:45 - 15:45
The infinite possibilities of family history and genealogy in East and South Asian culture — Genealogy and Local History
13:45 - 15:45
Expanding MARC metadata services with linked open data — UNIMARC Core Activity (UCA)
13:45 - 15:45
Information for development action: governments, civil society and libraries — Government Information and Official Publications with Government Libraries
16:15 - 17:30
Closing Session

Friday 23 August 2013

09:00 - 13:00
Governing Board (Incoming and ongoing including Professional Committee)