Daily Programme
Last update: 25 September 2012
Thursday 16 August
Session 187 — Metropolitan Libraries SC II
16 August 2012 08:00 - 09:30 | Room: 206
Session 188 — Science and Technology Libraries SC II
16 August 2012 08:00 - 09:30 | Room: 207
Session 189 — Management of Library Association SC II
16 August 2012 08:00 - 09:30 | Room: 208
Session 189 a — FAIFE Committee Meeting II
16 August 2012 08:00 - 09:30 | Room: 203
Session 190 — Making the case for change through evaluation: post-occupancy evaluation of library buildings — Library Buildings and Equipment
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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Welcoming, flexible, and state-of-the-art: approaches to continuous facilities improvement
CHARLES FORREST (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and SHARON BOSTICK (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA) -
When used, library buildings shows up, take profit of it!
MERCÈ MILLÁN, ESTER OMELLA and ASSUN VILADRICH (Gerència de Serveis de Biblioteques, Diputació de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) -
Working with focus groups as a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) to support a relaunch of the library building of the German National Library of Science and Technology/ University Library Hannover (TIB/UB)
ANETTE FRANZKOWIAK (Technische Informationsbibliothek/ Universitätsbibliothek Hannover, Hannover, Germany) -
Review of Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) in Libraries in Taiwan from the perspective of the architectural profession
Translations: [Français]
KOLI CHEN (Tungahi University, Taichung, Taiwan, China)
Session 191 — Empowering Africa's burgeoning population with access to demographic and development information - the world population explosion and access to the information needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa — Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) / Réseau d’accès à l’information en Afrique (RAIA) Special Interest Group
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI
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Community knowledge centers for Liberia: meeting Africa's Millennium Goals through a unique collaboration of communities, universities, libraries, and schools for Liberia's economic & social development
MARTIN KESSELMAN, CONNIE WU, LAURA PALUMBO, JAMES SIMON and RODOLFO JULIANI (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA) and RICHARD ROWE (Ole.org) -
Academic and research institutions repository: a catalyst for access to development information in Africa
CHIMEZIE PATRICK UZUEGBU (Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia State, Nigeria) -
Open forum in English and French, with panelists from the ATINA Preconference, IFLA Riga 2012
[Discussion ouverte en anglais et en français avec un panneau de participants de la Conférence Satellite du RAIA, IFLA Riga 2012]
What are the life prospects of the seven billionth living person, probably born in Africa late in the year 2011? How can access to information and education for civic and information literacy improve his or her odds of a better life?
[Quels sont les lendemains pour Monsieur ou Madame Sept Milliard, né probablement en Afrique vers la fin 2011 ? Comment l’accès à l’information et l’éducation pour la maîtrise de l’information et la culture civique peuvent-ils améliorer sa vie?]
Session 192 — Strong libraries = strong societies: democratizing access to knowledge through libraries — President-Elect’s Planning Session
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 6
Opening
Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Chair of the session
Presentation of the theme
Strong libraries = strong societies: democratizing access to knowledge through libraries,
Sinikka Sipilä, President-elect
Speakers from IFLA Regions and from NPSIG (New Professionals)
- Africa – Ellen Namhila, University Librarian, Library of the University of Namibia
- Asia and Oceania – Dr Fawz Abdallah, President, Lebanese Library Association
- Latin America and the Caribbean – Alejandra Martinez, Member of the FAIFE Committee, Chair of the Health Sciences Division of the Mexican Library Association
- New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) – Sebastian Wilke, Convener, NPSIG
Libraries in the Civil Society
Jukka Relander, President, Finnish Library Association
World Café discussions on the theme
facilitated by Inga Lunden and Christine McKenzie, IFLA GB
Conclusions and closing
Sinikka Sipilä
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Session 193 — The surprising world of government libraries: trends and prospect of new user services — Government Libraries, Government Information and Official Publications, Law Libraries with Library and Research Services for Parliaments
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 4
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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Access to digital case law in the United States: a historical perspective
Translations: [中文]
XIAOHUA ZHU (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) -
The United States Federal Depository Library Program: been here since 1813 and determined to be here as long as the people need government information to participate fully as citizens
Translations: [Español]
STEPHANIE GANIC BRAUNSTEIN (Regional Federal Depository Library, Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA), KAY CASSELL (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA), REGINA BEARD (Kansas State University, Kansas, USA) and ANTOINETTE SATTERFIELD (United States Naval Academy, Maryland, USA) -
Government libraries in Greece: current situation and future considerations
Translations: [Français] [Español]
MARIA MONOPOLI (Library Section, Bank of Greece, Athens, Greece) and ANNA MASTORA (Secretariat General of Information and Communication & Mass Media, Athens, Greece) -
Finnish government libraries - what's next?
JOHANNA MELTTI (Ministry of Justice, Tampere, Finland)
Session 194 — Indigenous Matters Special Interest Group
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: 306
Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.
The IFLA SIG on Indigenous Matters will feature examples of library services for indigenous populations including cases gathered in its new online publication. The session also builds on the experiences of the IFLA President Ingrid Parent’s President’s Programme on indigenous knowledge held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in April 2012.
Session 195 — Sister Libraries Programme – new developments and evaluation of an international network for children and libraries — Libraries for Children and Young Adults
16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 3
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Sister Libraries: background, godmothers and how libraries can get involved
VIVIANA QUIÑONES (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France) and ANNIE EVERALL (Consultant, Children's Books, Libraries and Reading, Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
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Sister Libraries in Action: highlights of activities in 2012:
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Sister Libraries: Le Centre Culturel Francophone, Mtein, Liban & la Petite Bibliothèque Ronde, Clamart, France
CAROLINE SIMON (Petite Bibliothèque Ronde, Clamart, France) and MAHA ALWAN (Centre d'Animation Culturel Francophone, Public Library/Mtein Municipality, Mtein, Lebanon) -
Sister Libraries Project: Community Center STEJ, Togo & Gutenberg Library, France
Translations: [English]
CELINE HUAULT (Maison de quartier STEJ, Lomé, Togo) and MARIE-CHRISTINE GAUDEFROY (Bibliothèque Gutenberg, Paris, France)
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Sister Libraries: Le Centre Culturel Francophone, Mtein, Liban & la Petite Bibliothèque Ronde, Clamart, France
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An evaluation of the IFLA Sister Libraries programme: development, challenges and progress in the first two years of an international network
CAROLYNN RANKIN (Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom)
Session 197 — Document Delivery and Resource Sharing SC II
16 August 2012 09:45 - 11:15 | Room: 207
Session 198 — Library Services to People with Special Needs SC II
16 August 2012 09:45 - 11:15 | Room: 208
Session 199 — Academic and Research Libraries SC II
16 August 2012 09:45 - 11:15 | Room: 203
Session 200 — Empowering staff through preservation training! How your library and users will reap the benefits — Preservation and Conservation with Education and Training
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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Lessons learned: training programs for post disaster recovery of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Translations: [Français]
AKIKO OKAHASHI (Preservation Division of the National Diet library, Tokyo, Japan) -
Preservation training and mobile treatment centre after a disaster
Translations: [Français]
CHRISTOPHE JACOBS (Comité français du Bouclier Bleu, Paris, France) and DANIELLE MINCIO (Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, Lausanne Unithèque, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland) -
Empowerment of staff through collaboration in training
DIANE VOGT-O'CONNOR (Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA) -
Training in cultural heritage preservation: the experience of heritage institutions in Nigeria
YETUNDE ZAID (University Library, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria), ABIOLA ABIOYE (Department of library, archival and information studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and OLUBUKOLA OLATISE (Main Library, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria) -
Preservation training: a priority for the Bibliothèque nationale de France/BnF; two examples of successful trainings
Translations: [Français]
PHILIPPE VALLAS (Conservation Department, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France) -
Emergency preparedness planning for library collections: development of a program and lessons learned
Translations: [Français]
LYNN BRODIE (Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada)
Session 201 — Inspiring and empowering women through access to information — Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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Women empowering through access to information: the strategic roles on NGOs in Nigeria
ADETOUN A. OYELUDE & ALICE A. BAMIGBOLA (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria) -
Sources and channels of information access and use in the information and knowledge society: a case study of informal sector women entrepreneurs of Hlabisa Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
VELI JIYANE, and MABEL MINISHI-MAJANJA (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) and JANNEKE MOSTERT and DENNIS OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa) -
Women as leaders of culture and change: a paper on BRAC’s Multi-purpose Community Learning Centre (MCLC)
NAZRUL ISLAM and ARCHI BISWAS (Brac Education Programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh) -
Providing information to women in Croatia: improvements inspired by feminist groups' initiatives
EDITA BAČIĆ (University of Split, Split, Croatia)
The four speakers will join quest panelist IFLA President-Elect Sinikka Sipilä for a question and answers session on the role of library and information professionals inspiring and empowering women through access to information.
Session 202 — Findings from the Global Impact Study: what it means for public libraries — ALP with the University of Washington
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 6
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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How access to ICTs in public libraries make an impact: Findings from the Global Impact Study and how you can use them for advocacy
MELODY CLARK and CHRIS COWARD (Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Session 203 — Empowering library users to solve problems: our stories — Social Science Libraries with Law Libraries and Government Libraries
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 4
Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.
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Desk statistics under a microscope = improved library services
SUSAN GARDNER ARCHAMBAULT (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA) -
Was wir von unseren Nutzern lernen können – und wie
Translations: [Français]
SEBASTIAN NIX (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information, Berlin, Germany) -
How to be competitive in the educational & cultural landscape: the challenge of the Carol I Central University Library in Bucharest, Romania - case study
MIREILLE RADOI (Carol I Central University Library, Bucharest, Romania) -
Libraries supporting national development goals in Namibia
ELLEN NAMHILA (University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia) and RITVA NISKALA (Namibia Library and Archives Service, Ministry of Education, Windhoek, Namibia) -
Empowering library users, establishing channel of communication for service quality expectations of trainers from government Administrative Training Institute (ATI) libraries in India
MANOJ KULKARNI (Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YAHSADA), Pune, India) and NEELA J. DESHPANDE (University of Pune, Pune, India) -
Giving them what they need, more simply: empowering students through internet specific subject websites
DOUG SUAREZ (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)
Session 204 — IFLA library standards and the IFLA Committee on Standards – how can they better serve you? — IFLA Committee on Standards
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 5
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Overview of the IFLA Committee on Standards (purpose, work done and issues identified so far)
PATRICE LANDRY (Chair of the IFLA Committee on Standards & Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland) - Open (moderated) discussion on issues relating to IFLA standards (questions, suggestions, issues to be resolved – feedback for the Committee’s 2012-13 action plan)
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Report of the IFLA Namespaces Task Group
GORDON DUNSIRE (Independent Consultant, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Session 205 — Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective — Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group
16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 3
Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.
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Knotting and networking agricultural information services through Web 2.0 to create an informed farming community: a case of Zimbabwe
COLLENCE TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic School of Information Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe) -
Agricultural rural libraries in Serbia in the era of Information Technology
VESNA CRNKOVIC (Public Library, "Radislav Nikčević", Jagodina, Serbia) -
Using social networking sites, blogs and online news contents in the agriculture research: a citation analysis
KAYVAN KOUSHA (Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) and MAHSHID ABDOLI (National Library of Iran, Tehran) -
Establishing connections and networking: the role of social media in agricultural research in Nigeria
ABIOLA ABOSEDE SOKOYA, (Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Nigeria), NIKE FEHINTOLA ONIFADE (Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria) and ADEFUNKE OLANIKE ALABI (University of Lagos Library, Akoka, Nigeria) -
The vision of agriculture network community information integration: a case study of China agriculture sustainable development information service mobile interconnection
XIAOWEN DING (Jiangsu Provincial Administrative Institute, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China) and LI QING (Guangdong Provincial Administrative Institute, Guang Zhou, Guangdong Province, China) -
Creating global village of agricultural practices through Social networking: opportunities and threats
AJAY PRATAP SINGH and MAYANK YUVARAJ (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
Session 207 — Genealogy and local History SC II
16 August 2012 11:30 - 13:00 | Room: 207
Session 208 — Literacy and Reading SC II
16 August 2012 11:30 - 13:00 | Room: 208
Session 208 a — CLM Committee Meeting II
16 August 2012 11:30 - 13:00 | Room: 203
Session 209 — Information Coordinators & web-editors (2)
16 August 2012 11:45 - 12:45 | Room: 306
Presenter: Louis Takács (IFLA Communications Officer / Web Content Editor)
Short introduction to editing the IFLA website for new Web Editors or those thinking of becoming one, followed by a more in depth presentation of some of the crucial functions of our content management system (CMS). This will be an informal presentation and question and answer session.
Another session with a similar focus is also available on Tuesday, 14 August from 11:45-12:45 in the same room (306).
Session 209 a — Government Libraries SC II
16 August 2012 13:00 - 14:30 | Room: 203
Session 210 — School Libraries and Resource Centers SC II
16 August 2012 13:15 - 14:45 | Room: 206
Session 211 — Reference and Information Services
16 August 2012 13:15 - 14:45 | Room: 208
Session 212 — Cataloguing standards and special collections — Rare Books and Manuscripts
16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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What strategies for the online visibility of cultural heritage?
ISABELLE WESTEEL (University Library Lille 3, Lille, France) -
The National Library Service (SBN) and the management of special collections in the multimedia index
PATRIZIA MARTINI and GABRIELLA CONTARDI (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico - ICCU, Il Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale - SBN, Rome, Italy) -
U. S. Descriptive Standards for archives, historical manuscripts, and rare books
J. GORDON DAINES III and CORY L. NIMER (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA) -
Informatiser des descriptions complexes: l’utilisation de l’EAD et de la TEI pour les manuscrits et les livres anciens en France
Translations: [English]
FLORENT PALLUAULT (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Service du livre et de la lecture, Paris, France) -
The role of Scribe related entries in facilitating the retrieval process in Persian manuscript collections
ALI MASHHADI RAFI and SOODE SAMIPOOR (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran) -
National retrospective bibliographies
CLAUDIA FABIAN (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany)
Session 213 — Building collaboration between LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries: transcending barriers, creating opportunities — LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group
16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 6
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Rising above the grain silo mentality through collaboration: creating opportunities between the LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries
COLLENCE TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic-School of Information Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe) and ISMAIL ABDULLAHI (North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA) -
Improving library use by Tsurumi University students: a collaborative effort among educators, librarians and students
TAKASHI NAGATSUKA, TOMOKO HARADA and TOYOHIRO HASEGAWA (Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan) -
Linking theory and practice in LIS education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Translations: [Français] [Español]
FILIBERTO FELIPE MARTÍNEZ ARELLANO and JAIME RÍOS ORTEGA (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Library and Information Science Research Institute, Mexico City, Mexico) -
Building collaboration between LIS educators and practitioners in Thailand: transcending barriers, creating opportunities
CHUTIMA SACCHANAND (Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Bangkok, Thailand) -
Toward a Regional Consortium of LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries in partnership with American universities: barriers and opportunities in the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Librarians (SCECSAL) region
ISAAC KIGONGO-BUKENYA (Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda), WALLACE KOEHLER (Valdosta University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA) and KENDRA ALBRIGHT (University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA) -
Understanding the prospects and potential for improved regional LIS collaboration in the developing world: an empirical study of LIS departments in the GCC States
MOHAMMED NASSER AL-SUQRI, NAIFA EID AL SALEEM (Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman) and MAJDA EZZAT GHARIEB (King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Session 214 — Libraries for the law and for lawmakers — Law Libraries with Library and Research Services for Parliaments
16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 4
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Reinventing law libraries in Canada: a unique business model in Alberta
SONIA POULIN and RHONDA O'NEILL (Alberta Law Libraries, Alberta, Canada) -
Easy law: democratizing access to legislation
Translations: [Español]
SOLEDAD FERREIRO (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (BCN), Santiago, Chile) -
Power to the people! Introducing open linked data services to the National Legal Database of the Library of the National Congress of Chile
Translations: [Español]
CHRISTIAN SIFAQUI (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (BCN), Valparaìso, Chile) -
Parliamentary libraries celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta
Translations: [Français]
JOHN PULLINGER (House of Commons, London, United Kingdom) and ROB NEWLEN (Law Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA)
Session 215 — What is a national bibliography today and what are its potential uses? — Bibliography
16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 5
Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.
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Bibliography in the digital age: report of the Satellite Meeting, Warsaw, 9th August 2012, organized by IFLA Bibliography and Cataloguing Sections
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"Are you trying to kill me?" - the national bibliography asks Internet
Translations: [Русский] [Français] [中文]
JAROSŁAW PACEK and MAGDALENA KRYNICKA (Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland) -
The German National Bibliography as linked open data: applications and opportunities
Translations: [Deutsch] [中文] [Русский] [Français]
JÜRGEN KETT, SARAH BEYER, MATHIAS MANECKE, YVONNE JAHNS and LARS G. SVENSSON (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -
The data deluge: a threat or a chance for national bibliographies?
GILDAS ILLIEN (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)
Session 216 — Continuity in the face of digital disasters: Disaster planning and recovery for digital libraries — Information Technology
16 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 3
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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The Iowa flood of 2008: putting the disaster response plan to the test
PAUL A. SODERDAHL (The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa, USA) -
Converged infrastructure as a strategy for disaster recovery and organizational continuity
FRANK CERVONE (Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, USA) -
Safety in numbers: distributed digital preservation networks
AARON TREHUB (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA) and MARTIN HALBERT (University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA) -
A model for digital preservation repository risk relationships
ANDREW MCHUGH (University of Glasgow, Glashow, Scotland, United Kingdom) -
The digital survivalist: ways to prepare for a digital catastrophe
EDMUND BALNAVES (Prosentient Systems P/L, Ultimo, Australia) -
Providing continuity of service during 11,700 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand
MOIRA FRASER (Moira Fraser Consulting, New Zealand)
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Abbreviations
- Off-site
- Not in the congress centre; location will be added when known
- SC
- Standing Committee
- SI
- Simultaneous Interpretation (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish)
- TBA
- To Be announced
Congress tracks (subthemes)
- Open access and digital resources
- Policy, strategy and advocacy
- Users driving access and services
- Tools and techniques
- Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new