Daily Programme
Last update: 12 October 2012
Sunday 12 August
Session 64 — Division Leadership Forum: Div. I - Library Types
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: 101c
The Division Leadership Forum is a closed session and offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas in a more informal setting. It follows the more formal Leadership Brief which took place on Saturday.
Session 65 — Division Leadership Forum: Div. II - Library Collections
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: 101d
The Division Leadership Forum is a closed session and offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas in a more informal setting. It follows the more formal Leadership Brief which took place on Saturday.
Session 66 — Division Leadership Forum: Div. III - Library Services
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: 204-205
The Division Leadership Forum is a closed session and offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas in a more informal setting. It follows the more formal Leadership Brief which took place on Saturday.
Session 67 — Division Leadership Forum: Div. IV - Support of the Profession
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: Ballroom 1
The Division Leadership Forum is a closed session and offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas in a more informal setting. It follows the more formal Leadership Brief which took place on Saturday.
Session 68 — Division Leadership Forum: Div. V - Regions
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: 102
The Division Leadership Forum is a closed session and offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of the IFLA Sections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas in a more informal setting. It follows the more formal Leadership Brief which took place on Saturday.
Session 69 — Newcomers Session
12 August 2012 08:30 - 10:00 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI
Is this your FIRST IFLA Congress?
This session offers a brief introduction to various aspects of the IFLA congress and the IFLA organisation in an informal way. Attend this session and you'll find that other participants will make you feel welcome. The Newcomers’ session is a great opportunity to start building and expanding your international professional network!
For more information on becoming and IFLA member, please leave your contact details at the end of the session.
Programme
Welcome
Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Chair
Introduction
Jennefer Nicholson, IFLA Secretary General or Sinikka Sipilä, IFLA President-elect (To be confirmed)
Topic 1: What motivates me to go to an IFLA conference?
- How do I get the most out of the programme?
- Opportunities to network
- Making friends and lifelong memories
- What to see in the host country, both professionally and recreational
Panelists
- Alejandra Martinez del Prado, IFLA FAIFE Committee member (To be confirmed)
- Shaked Spier, Berlin School of Library and Information Science
- Mirja Martamaa
Summary
Topic 2: What can I gain professionally and personally from an IFLA conference?
- What an international perspective brings to my professional practice
- First-timer/one-timer/many-timer – opportunities for ongoing participation in IFLA
- Information exchange
- New perspectives
Panelists
- Ai Cheng Tay, Secretary & Treasurer, IFLA Metropolitian Libraries Section
- Buhle Mbambo-Thata, IFLA Governing Board member
- Alex Byrne, former IFLA President (to be confirmed)
Summary
End
Coffee and cake
Session 70 — Opening Session
12 August 2012 10:30 - 12:00 | Room: Amfi | SI
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What do Santa Claus and Libraries have in common?
Maija Berndtson (Chair of the 2012 Finnish National Committee) -
Opening Address: Libraries - a force for change: inspiring, surprising, empowering
Translations: [Español] [Deutsch] [Français] [العربية] [Русский] [中文]
Ingrid Parent (IFLA President) -
Welcoming Address
Jussi Pajunen (Mayor of Helsinki) -
Defending Cultural Heritage - Defending Humanity
Keynote speaker: Helena Ranta
Come and enjoy Finnish music and feel welcome to Helsinki.
Session 71 — IFLA Market: How to get published
12 August 2012 12:00 - 13:30 | Room: Session Room 3
The aim of the session is to provide general guidance to would-be professional authors on how to ensure that their work has the best possible chance of being published in the professional press.
The main topics to be covered:
- Why write and why seek publication?
- How to structure and write a journal article.
- Choosing a journal.
- The editorial and peer review process.
- The publishing process.
Panelists: Caroline Lock, Ian Johnson, Paul Sturges, Stephen Parker and Eileen Breen.
Session 72 — IFLA Market: Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA) and IFLA ALP
12 August 2012 12:00 - 13:30 | Room: Session Room 4
Attend the BSLA session at the IFLA market to hear a selection of 'results and success stories' from the first 6 countries taking part in the programme (full results will be presented in session 138). We will also cover how all members can get involved, and make use of the learning materials for workshops and online.
ALP Q&A
Learn more about IFLA’s Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP), Building Strong Library Associations programme and IFLA’s policy-based training.
This session will give an overview of IFLA’s development and training programmes. The remainder of the session would be presented in Q&A format with time for open questions about how to use IFLA training materials and sharing of success stories.
The session is presented by FIONA BRADLEY (IFLA ALP Programme Coordinator)
Session 73 — IFLA Market: Biblioteca Baltica
12 August 2012 12:00 - 13:30 | Room: Session Room 5
Moderator: GUNNAR SAHLIN (President of the Bibliotheca Baltica, former National Librarian of Sweden)
IFLA Market Session is perfect place to meet other librarians from Baltic Sea Region and to express your expectations about the Bibliotheca Baltica cooperation.
- Bibliotheca Baltica as an association for libraries in the Baltic Sea Region
- Humanist Greek Texts in the Libraries of Estonia, Finland and Sweden
- New National Library of Latvia: coexistence of physical and digital
- Finno-Ugric digitization project and cooperation between Finnish and Russian National Libraries
- Meet You in Tallinn – The International Bibliotheca Baltica Symposium in October 2012
Session 74 — IFLA Market: Library Boulevard – Finnish Edition
12 August 2012 12:00 - 13:30 | Room: Glass Gallery
Finnish libraries will be introducing themselves at the conference—not just in the lecture halls. The route from the convention centre entrance to the main floor will be an actual Library Boulevard. Along it one will see up to 50 intriguing presentations from the world of Finnish libraries, with some additional presentations from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. On the main floor Finnish libraries will be assembling the Libraries.fi exhibition stand, which will be offering information, working examples, and varies hints and bulletins. Details about after hour events will also be found here.
Session 74 a — President’s Lunch
12 August 2012 12:00 - 13:45
(By invitation only)
Session 75 — Sleepwalking into a control society? — Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI
Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.
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Introduction and welcome
KAI EKHOLM (Chair of FAIFE) -
The Internet is dead!
SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN (Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) -
Response: new media control in Europe
ERKAN SAKA (Istanbul Bilgi University, School of Communication, Istanbul, Turkey) -
The IFLA Code of Ethics for librarians and other information workers
PAUL STURGES (Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom) -
FAIFE update
KAI EKHOLM (Chair of FAIFE) and PÄIVIKKI KARHULA (FAIFE Committee Member)
FAIFE Maker's mark:
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The FAIFE Advent calendar
PANU SOMERMA and JANI NIEMINEN (Entresse Library, Espoo, Finland) -
FAIFE Book Club
JONATHAN KELLEY (ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, Chicago, Illinois, USA) -
ALA most banned books in USA 2011
BARBARA JONES (ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Session 76 — Crisis? What crisis? The use of statistics and data for libraries at a turning point — Statistics and Evaluation
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
- 2do. Censo Nacional de Bibliotecas Dominicanas: estadísticas vitales en un momento decisivo YUMARYS ALT. POLANCO-ALMONTE and CÉLIDA ÁLVAREZ-ARMENTEROS (Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (BNPHU), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
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Supporting strategic change through statistics of virtual library usage
SEBASTIAN MUNDT (Stuttgart Media University, Stuttgart, Germany) -
Measuring the public library's societal value: a methodological research program
FRANK HUYSMANS (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and MARJOLEIN OOMES (Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries, The Hague, Netherlands) -
User-centered decision making: a new model for developing academic library services and systems
LYNN SILIPIGNI CONNAWAY (OCLC Research, Dublin, Ohio, USA), DONNA LANCLOS (J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA), DAVID WHITE (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom), ALISON LE CORNU (The Higher Education Academy, Oxford, United Kingdom) and ERIN M. HOOD (OCLC Research, Dublin, Ohio, USA) -
Challenges of data driven advocacy in East and Southern Africa
Translations: [Français]
EMMA FARROW (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), Oxford, United Kingdom)
Session 77 — Integrating access to art resources – boon or bane? — Art Libraries
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 3
Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Making sense of it all: integrated access to art history's research resources
KATHLEEN SALOMON (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA) -
Artlibraries.net, WorldCat and common initiatives for the future of art bibliography
Translations: [Français]
RÜDIGER HOYER (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany) -
Integrating art resources at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
ISABEL CRISTINA AYRES DA SILVA MARINGELLI (Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil) -
Building a national content repository on the arts for a nation
THAY CHIEW BOON (National Library Board, Singapore)
Session 78 — Using assessment to drive change: demonstrating the value of health information — Health and Biosciences Libraries
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 4
Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.
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Developing quantitative and qualitative assessments of the impact of the provision of access to peer-reviewed medical research to developing world researchers and practitioners
Translations: [Français]
RICHARD GEDYE (International Association of STM Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom) -
The assessment of a new information prescription service to patients with heart valve disease applying user's satisfaction study
VAHIDEH Z. GAVGANI and MINA MAHAMI (Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran) -
Developing an assessment model for an information literacy program
Translations: [Français]
AMANI MAGID, SALLY BIRCH and ELLEN SAYED (Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar) -
Impact of library intervention on resident doctors use of online health information resources in Nigeria
Translations: [Français]
UJU E. NWAFOR-ORIZU (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria) and VICTOR NWACHUKWU (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) -
Working towards liberation: Using a collaborative approach to assess the impact of library services within the NHS
DOUGLAS KNOCK (South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom)
Session 79 — Innovation in resource sharing: new methods, new technologies — Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 5
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Tackling the Big Deal head on: the experience of UK higher education in 2011
MIKE MCGRATH (United Kingdom) -
Subito: our classical document delivery service for researchers and libraries
TRAUTE BRAUN-GORGON (Subito, Berlin, Germany) -
Exploring the way of SaaS-based resource sharing services
XIAOXIA YAO (CALIS - China Academic Library and Information System, Beijing, China) -
National Content Consortium (NCC): practical experiences in Iranian resource sharing
AZADEH HEIDARI and LEILA NEMATI ANARARKI (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran) -
The road to the digital resources sharing: cases of the Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project of China
WU XIAO (National Cultural Information Resources Management Center of China, Beijing, China) -
The current state of resource sharing in Mexico
DANIEL MATTES DURRETT (Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, Mexico)
Session 80 — Inspired moments in cataloguing — Cataloguing
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 6
Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.
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The gap between users and cataloging
Translations: [Français] [中文] [Русский] [Español] [Deutsch]
ZHAI XIAOJUAN and NIE NA (Nanjing University Library, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China) -
Metadata with levels of description: new challenges to catalogers and metadata librarians
Translations: [Deutsch] [Français] [Русский] [中文]
MYUNG-JA HAN (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA) -
Digital services in a new digital library - new ways of presenting the library catalogue
Translations: [Русский] [Deutsch] [中文] [Français]
ASGEIR REKKAVIK and ANNE-LENA WESTRUM (Oslo Public Library, Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo, Norway) and KIM TALLERÅS (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway) -
L’infrastructure de l’information et les besoins des utilisateurs: tout le pouvoir aux données structurées!
Translations: [Deutsch]
VINCENT BOULET (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)
Session 83 — Latin America and the Caribbean – SC I
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: 208
Session 83 a — NOIR SIG: the next phase — NOIR SIG Business Meeting
12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: 214
The National Organizations and International Relations Special Interest Group was founded to address a need for national organizations to share information about how they conduct their international activities and services. SIG members would share best practices and develop tools to help them manage their international relations.
Four years on, some tools and surveys have been shared with members; but the SIG needs to develop a new plan of activities and expand its leadership.
This business meeting is open to all who are interested in the ways that national organizations engage in international activities and want to contribute to the future success of NOIR SIG.
Session 84 — IFLA Strategic Partners’ Meeting
12 August 2012 14:00 - 16:00 | Room: 306
(Business Meeting, by invitation only)
Session 85 — Exhibition Opening and Opening Party
12 August 2012 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Hall 4 and 5
(incl VIP tour)
Session 85 a — IFLA Officers Reception
12 August 2012 19:00 - 22:00
Sponsored by Infor and InterSystems Benelux BV
IFLA reserves the right to make any changes to the above Congress Schedule and any other details contained in this document.
IFLA se reserva el derecho a realizar cambios en el Calendario del Congreso que aparece más arriba y en cualquier otra información contenida en este documento.
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