Daily Programme
Wednesday 17 August
Session 156 — SC II Library Buildings and Equipment
Session 157 — SC II Knowledge Management
Session 158 — SC II Information Technology
Session 159 — SC II School Libraries and Resource Centres
Session 160 — Plenary Session
From the text and oral history to cinematography: Towards the rescuing and preservation of documentation for posterity
(Del texto y la historia oral a la cinematografia: Hacia el rescate y la preservacion documental para la posteridad)
Plenary Speaker: Luis Molina-Casanova, Resident Filmmaker and professor at the Communications Department of the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Chair: Prof. Sonia Diaz Latorre, University of the Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Session 161 — "The media is the message!" The convergence of media in rapidly changing societies from a user perspective as well as the demand for preservation — Audiovisual and Multimedia Section with Preservation and Conservation
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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IconoTag, empirical support for automatic multilingual picture indexing
Translations: [Français] [العربية] [Español]
CLAIRE NIGAY and JAMES M. TURNER (École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada) and KARINE LESPINASSE-SABOURAULT (Alliance francaise de Shanghai, Université Paris 8, Paris, France) -
Public performance rights management in academic libraries
Translations: [Español] [العربية]
LAURA JENEMANN (George Mason University Libraries, Fairfax, VA, USA) -
Integration of university libraries in Bulgaria for utilization of world information resources
Translations: [Français] [Español] [العربية]
ELENA PAVLOVSKA (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria) -
Media services in North American academic libraries
Translations: [Français] [العربية] [Español]
MICHAEL J. MILLER (Queens College, New York, NY, USA) -
Drawing a fine line between promoting use and preserving access to new media
Translations: [العربية] [Español]
MARY S. LASKOWSKI and THOMAS H. TEPER (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA) -
Preservation of audiovisual collections at the National Diet Library
AKIKO OKAHASHI (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan) -
The medium and the message: convergence and the ends of photographic collections
ARTHUR TENNÖE (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) -
Digital AV Media and long-term preservation
IRMHILD SCHÄFER (Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany)
Session 162 — Beyond barriers to accessing health information — Health and Biosciences Libraries Section with Library Services to People with Special Needs
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Keynote: Beyond barriers to accessing health information
JUAN CARLOS DIAZ RICO (WHO / Pan-American Health Organization, Washington D.C., USA) -
Building capacity: lessons learnt from intensive health information training programme in Vietnam
PETER BURNETT and MARTIN BELCHER (INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom) -
Best practices for medical information needs assessment and partnership building: the experiences of two institutions in two African countries
ANNE SEYMOUR (Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) and ANN LINTON (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington Library, Washington D.C., USA) -
Bridging health information services gaps through community outreach Programs at the Public Library
JENNIFER MCDANIEL (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA), AIMEE BABCOCK-ELLIS (US Department of Justice, Arlington, VA, USA) and JESSICA HERNANDEZ (US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA) -
"Moving the Library" - new approach to health information: examples of best practise
HELLE MORTENSEN (Lyngby-Taarbaek Public Libraries, Lyngby-Taarbaek, Denmark) -
Importancia de la capacitación de los bibliotecarios para el cumplimiento de sus funciones: experiencia en el tema SIDA (AIDS)
ILEANA ARMENTEROS VERA (Departamento de Docencia del Centro nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas - Infomed, Havana, Cuba) -
Successful initiatives and partnerships by a public library to promote health information
LOIDA GARCIA-FEBO (Queens Library, New York, NY, USA) -
Library access for the disabled in Romania
IOANA ROBU and SALLY WOOD-LAMONT (Cluj Medical University Library, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) -
The impact of culture on communities in Kenya
ESTHER K. OBACHI (University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya) and GRACE NYAMONGO (Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya)
Session 163 — Discussion of final report of the 'Library Linked Data' incubator group — Semantic Web Special Interest Group
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
Session 164 — Access and innovation: delivering information to all — Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section
Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.
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Research4Life: bringing academic and professional peer-reviewed content to developing countries through public-private partnerships
Translations: [Français]
EDMOND GAIBLE (The Natoma Group), RICHARD GEDYE (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) MARY OCHS (Albert R Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA), KIMBERLY PARKER (HINARI - Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) and STEPHEN RUDGARD (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) -
OpenEdition Freemium: developing a sustainable library-centered economic model for open access
Translations: [Français] [Español]
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE PEYSSARD (Centre for Open Electronic Publishing, Marseille, France) -
Unbundling the big deal with Patron Driven Acquisition of e-Journals
Translations: [Français]
MAUREEN WEICHER and TIAN XIAO ZHANG (St. John's University Library, Queens, NY, USA) -
Initiative of the INFLIBNET centre for delivering information to the Indian academic community
RAJESH CHANDRAKAR and JAGDISH ARORA (INFLIBNET - Information and Library Network, Ahmedabad, India) -
Widening access to serials in the developing world: the role and philosophy of INASP
Translations: [Español] [Français]
MARTIN BELCHER, PETER BURNETT and SARA GWYNN (INASP - International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Session 165 — IFLA Publications
Chair: INGEBORG VERHEUL (IFLA Communication and Services Director, The Hague, Netherlands)
Conference delegates have an opportunity to be informed about important publications that have appeared in IFLA’s publications programme during the last year. Authors and editors will be presenting some of the top new titles recently published. They will sketch the backgrounds and the importance of these new publications for the various subfields of the profession. The variety is as broad as the IFLA palette of activities: new publications on bibliographic control, school libraries, early printed books, newspaper librarianship, etc.
Take this opportunity to meet the authors, to learn about the latest state of play and... of course you can place your orders!
For an overview of recent IFLA Publications please visit: http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla-publications
Session 166 — National Association Members Meeting
(By invitation only)
Session 168 — SC II Education and Training
Session 169 — SC II Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
Session 170 — SC II Science and Technology Libraries
Session 171 — SC II Asia and Oceania
Session 172 — SC II Government Libraries
Session 173 — SC II Public Libraries
Session 174 — SC II Information Literacy
Session 175 — Project Presentation - Sister Libraries: what and how and the role of godmothers — Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Update on Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section's project "Sister Libraries for children and young adult's reading"
VIVIANA QUINONES (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse-La Joie par les livres, Paris, France) -
What can Sister Libraries do? Exemples (videos) of joint programmes, presented by the project "godmothers"
KIRSTEN BOELT (Aalborg Public Libraries, Denmark), INGRID BON (Biblioservice Gelderland, Arnhem, Netherlands), ANNIE EVERALL, OBE (Children's Books and Libraries Consultant, United Kingdom), INGRID KALLSTROM (Stockholm Public Library, Sweden), KERSTIN KELLER-LOIBL (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig, Germany) and VIVIANA QUINONES (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse-La Joie par les livres, Paris, France)
Find a Sister Library! "Speed-dating" and possibility of discussion with "godmothers" after the session
Session 176 — The IFLA World Report – A call to action [CANCELLED] — Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
CANCELLED
The 77th IFLA Conference in Puerto Rico is launching the first session devoted to the World Report and its supporters.
This session will be structured with a round of quick presentations and the award of the best poster on the World Report. The topics of the presentation will be success stories about specific library communities. We need to collect details about libraries as access points, libraries as ICT learning centres, libraries for continuing education, libraries for specific needs, libraries for cultural heritage, in order to have a complete and update source of information.
Come and hear about the latest additions to the IFLA World Report and the plans for the future. Members of the FAIFE Committee will be on hand to answer your questions and take suggestions regarding potential new content to be included. Find out how the World Report can be used for advocacy and awareness raising. Your input will make the difference and we will spread the story of your community to make it a success all over the world!
Session 177 — The great exchange: highlighting the role of international activities offices of national-level organisations in facilitating the exchange of services and/or staff between organisations — National Organisations and International Relations (NOIR) Special Interest Group
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
Session 178 — Improving Lives: Experiences from (ATLA) Access to Learning Award Recipients in Latin America — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Update Session
Libraries and access to knowledge are a force for change in people's lives. ATLA award recipients from Latin America will provide practical tips and best practices stemming from their experiences using public access to information technology to improve people's lives.
The following programs will be represented:
- Library of Congress of Argentina
- BibloAmigos/BibloRed, Bogotá, Colombia
- EPM Foundation and the Network of Public Libraries of Medellín, Colombia
- Probigua, Guatemala
- Vasconcelos Program, Mexico
Session 179 — SC II Metropolitan Libraries
Session 180 — SC II Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
Session 182 — FAIFE Committee Meeting (2nd)
Session 183 — Africa libraries, not just place but interface — Africa Section
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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Learning by doing: toward an experiential approach to professional development
LAILA RIZK (The National Library of Egypt, Bab al Khalp, Cairo, Egypt) -
Social networking: a tool to use for effective service delivery to clients by African libraries
EFUA MANSA AYIAH and CYNTHIA HENEWAA KUMAH (University of Education, Winneba, Ghana) -
Innovative use of programmes, space and technology to create value-added user interfaces in information and knowledge services
ABRAHAM AZUBUIKE (United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library, NY, USA) -
Public libraries in Africa - agents for development and innovation? Current perceptions of local stakeholders
Translations: [Français]
DAVID FUEGI, MONIKA SEGBERT-ELBERT (EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries, Rome, Italy) and UGNE LIPEIKAITE (National Library of Lithuania, Lithuania)
Session 184 — Applied knowledge management: a panorama of success stories & case studies in libraries and lessons learned — Knowledge Management Section
Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.
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Defining knowledge for a geographically diverse user community: a case study of services and assessment
ARDIS HANSON (College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA) -
The librarian/lecturer: successful course development based on KM principles
STUART BASEFSKY (ILR School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) -
KM in a Single Virtual UniversitySpace (SVUS)
KAREN LEQUAY (The University of the West Indies, Open Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago) -
A KM-based strategic , global current awareness service
STUART BASEFSKY (ILR School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Session 185 — Hot topics in academic and research libraries: conquering the economic downturn - managing transformational change in our libraries — Academic and Research Libraries Section
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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Between baby-boomers and diginative generation - challenges in the personnel management of libraries
JARMO SAARTI (University of Eastern Finland Library, Kuopio, Finland) -
The mobile internet: challenges and opportunities for academic libraries
KLAUS CEYNOWA (Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany) -
Digital content: ubiquitous access
NGIAN LEK CHOH (National Library, Singapore) -
Hitting the headlines - does the saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity" apply to academic libraries?
JANET FLETCHER (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Session 186 — Ten years on: the use of RFID technology in library context. What is our main point of interest to support, maintain and develop this cutting-edge technology — Radio frequency identification (RFID) Special Interest Group
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
Programme:
- Developments, experiences, initiatives and goals in the context of german libraries & RFID-users [PDF]
Session 187 — Advancing UNIMARC: alignment and innovation — IFLA UNIMARC Programme (UNIMARC)
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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UNIMARC and FRBR - can we have both?
Translations: [Deutsch] [中文] [Español]
TROND AALBERG (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway), JAN PISANSKI and MAJA ŽUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia) -
FRBRization: using UNIMARC link fields to identify Works
Translations: [Deutsch] [中文] [Français] [Español]
MANOLIS PEPONAKIS, MICHALIS SFAKAKIS and SARANTOS KAPIDAKIS (Laboratory on Digital Libraries & Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive & Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece) -
FRBRisation of Koha in the context of CMARC (a UNIMARC-derived format)
Translations: [中文]
NAICHENG CHANG (General Education Center, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan, China) and YUCHIN TSAI (National Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan, China) -
Expressing FRBR in UNIMARC: yes we can!
Translations: [Français]
PHILIPPE LE PAPE (ABS - Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, Montpellier, France) -
UNIMARC and linked data
Translations: [Français]
GORDON DUNSIRE (Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) and MIRNA WILLER (University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Zadar, Croatia)
Session 188 — Newspapers in the Caribbean, Central and South America: production, distribution and conservation. Cultural heritage and news media in the digital age — Newspapers Section
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Developing a knowledge-base to improve interaction with collections of historical newspapers
ROBERT B. ALLEN (College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA) -
El Eco del Protectorado: el rol integrador de un bisemanario oficial durante la Confederación Perú-Boliviana (1836-1839)
GLORIA DEL ROSARIO PEIRANO TROLL (Facultad de Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru) -
Integración de procesos técnicos en la creación de objetos digitales de prensa histórica (Integration of technical processes in the creation of digital objects of historical newspapers)
XAVIER AGENJO (Fundación Ignacio Larramendi, Polymath Virtual Library, Madrid, Spain) JESÚS DOMÍNGUEZ, FRANCISCA HERNÁNDEZ and FERNANDO ROMÁN (DIGIBÍS, Producciones Digitales, Madrid, Spain) -
Preserving Brazilian press memory - a huge task: National Library's experience and future perspectives
MÔNICA RIZZO SOARES PINTO (National Digital Library, National Library Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) -
Sala Virtual de Prensa: trabajo colaborativo para la conservación y difusión de colecciones de periódicos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
ROBERTO AGUIRRE BELLO (Departamento de Colecciones Especiales y Digitales Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile) -
A web of news: harvesting, preserving and presenting online news resources
FREDERICK ZARNDT (Zarndt.net, Coronado, USA) and PÄR NILSSON (National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden)
Session 189 — General Assembly
Session 190 — Canadian Reception - in honour of incoming President Ingrid Parent
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
