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Plenary Speaker: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently the Robertson Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including the Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segment of "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. In 2011 he was appointed chair of UVA's Department of Media Studies.

In March 2002, Library Journal cited Vaidhyanathan among its “Movers & Shakers” in the library field. In the feature story, Vaidhyanathan lauded librarians for being “on the front lines of copyright battles” and for being “the custodians of our information and cultural commons.” In November 2004 the Chronicle of Higher Education called Vaidhyanathan “one of academe’s best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture.” He has testified as an expert before the U.S. Copyright Office on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

He is noted for opposing the Google Books scanning project on copyright grounds. He has published the opinion that the project poses a danger for the doctrine of fair use, because the fair use claims are arguably so excessive that it may cause judicial limitation of that right.

Vaidhyanathan was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning both a B.A. in history and a Ph.D. in American studies.

Chair: Kai Ekholm
(Chair of IFLA FAIFE, National Librarian of Finland)

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• Journey into imagination – a glimpse of the history of Finnish children's literature
  PIRKKO ILMANEN (Entresse Library, Espoo City Library, Espoo, Finland) and MARJUKKA PELTONEN (Tapiola Library, Espoo, Finland)
• Outreach to vulnerable youth in Africa through partnerships for innovative programming: The Lubuto Library Project
  JANE KINNEY MEYERS (Lubuto Library Project, Washington DC, USA)
• The living book
  JIM HØJBERG (Vejle Public Library, Vejle, Denmark)
• "Sense and Sensibility": "Blended living and learning" in children’s libraries as places of virtual, social, sensual, esthetic and creative experiences – including practical examples from Germany
  SUZANNE BRANDT (Büchereizentrale Schleswig-Holstein, Flensburg, Germany)
• "Le Club des aventuriers du livre", un club de lecture d’été incroyable
  STEPHANE LEGAULT (Les Bibliothèques publiques de Laval, Laurentides, Lanaudière, Boisbriand, Canada)
• My mission is to listen: read to a dog but not just any dog
  Translations: [Français]
  RAISA ALAMERI (Sello Library, Espoo City Library, Espoo, Finland)
• Le projet SESAM et les bibliothèques scolaires en RDC
  CHRISTINE DIALUNDAMA SUAMUNU (Kinshasa, Congo Democratic Republic)

Location:
Sello Library, Leppävaara District Library
(Espoo city library)
[Leppävaara is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland]
Address: Leppävaarankatu 9. ESPOO

How to get there by public transportation:
The Sello mall, where the library is located, is just next to the train station and the bus terminal.

The train connection is the fastest and most recommended public transportation between Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre (Messukeskus) or Helsinki City Centre and Sello Library. For the Sello Library the HSL-Journey Planner (Reittiopas) uses the term "Leppävaara Library". All trains: A, E, L, S, U and Y leave from Helsinki Central station, stop at Pasila station (next to the Convention Centre "Messukukeskus") and will stop at Leppävaara Railwaystation (Sello). During working hours the frequency is 10-15 min.

Timetable in English: http://www.reittiopas.fi/en/

From Messukeskus (Convention Centre) to Leppävaara Library, fill in the search box:
From: Messukeskus, Helsinki
To: Leppävaara Library, Espoo

From Sello Library to Helsinki City Centre, fill in the search box:
From: Leppävaara Library, Espoo
To: Helsinki Railway Station, Helsinki

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1. Welcome and introduction:
Chair: NANCY GWINN (Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. USA)

2. Survey presentation:
TONE ELI MOSEID (Tønsberg and Nøtterøy Public Library, Tønsberg, Norway).

3. Convergence out there:

• How the strategic international large scale digital convergence activities converge with the dismantling of LAMMS initiatives at a national political level
  TBA
• Large scale digital convergence - the practical level: the Digital Public Library America as an example
  MAURA MARX (Open Knowledge Commons Centre at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society) and RACHEL FRICK (Digital Library Federation, USA)
• Indigenous convergence
  LORIENE ROY (School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA)
• Convergence of libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions in LIS schools in research and curriculum offerings 
  TERRY WEECH (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA) and ANNA MARIA TAMMARO (University of Parma, Florence, Italy)

4. Panel discussion:
The Strategic View: how can we promote our common course?
Panel chair: LYNNE M. RUDASILL (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA) with representatives of the LAMMS Coordinating Council.

5. Summary and wrap up

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Want to increase the public visibility of libraries in your country? Come hear examples of how library associations and libraries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas have created their campaigns, and learn how you can participate in this IFLA/ALA partnership initiative to promote libraries.

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With over 230,000 of the world's public libraries in developing and transitioning countries, there should be an obvious link between institutions dedicated to access to information and local, national, and international efforts to improve the lives of citizens through access to critical information. Although some libraries have achieved success in addressing community development issues ranging from health to agriculture to economic opportunity, public libraries are often overlooked by decision makers, funders, and international agencies when allocating funding and planning development work.

This session will examine some of the linkages between public libraries and development work, and will include brief presentations by librarians who have achieved successes related to development, as well as brainstorming and discussion of ways that librarians can take advantage of existing opportunities and make decision makers more aware of the role public libraries can play.

Beyond Access is an advocacy initiative of IREX, EIFL, IFLA, Makaia, Civic Agenda, TASCHA, The Riecken Foundation, and READ Global, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Chair: Edmund Balnaves, Frank Seeliger

• The 2012 survey of RFID use in the Library. Lessons learned and indicators for the future
  MICK FORTUNE (United Kingdom)
• Experience with RFID in Finland
  EEVALIISA COLB (Helsinki University Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Development of security concepts for in-use RFID library-systems, concerning the potential of NFC capable smartphones
  SEBASTIAN KRAUTZ (AutoID/RFID competence centre, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Wildau, Germany)
• Talk about RFID in Egypt and Arab region libraries
  MAHMOUD SAYED ABDOU (Library of Congress - Cairo Office, Cairo, Egypt)

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The Officers Training session is a closed session for Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections. They will meet with representatives of the Professional Committee and IFLA HQ to listen to and ask questions about practical matters relating to their role and responsibilities.

An agenda indicating topics to be covered has been sent in advance by email but the session is informal and officers can come with any questions they have.

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• Draft Agenda

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