Government Libraries Section - Conferences 2001-2007


Site Search IFLA This section In This Document Durban 2006 Seoul 2006 Oslo 2005 Buenos Aires 2004 Berlin 2003 Glasgow 2002 London 2002 Boston 2001 Home	Government Libraries Section Conferences 2001-2007 Durban 2007 Open Session: Government libraries: approaches to multi-lingual collections and services Twice as nice or double trouble? Bilingual working in the Welsh Assembly Government Library & Publications Service REBECCA DAVIES (Assembly Library & Publication Service, Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff, Wales) South African Government Library Services and the Batho Pele principles: how do the 11 (eleven) official languages impact on service delivery? T.F. CONSTABLE and MRS.MOTSAROME MABENA (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) Delivery of Web-based multi-lingual digital collections and services to multi-cultural populations: The Case of Global Memory Net CHING-CHIH CHEN (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA USA) La importancia de la colaboración entre bibliotecas con colecciones multilingües para incrementar el número de sus usuarios y mejorar sus servicios ARACELI GARCÍA MARTÍN (Biblioteca Hispánica, Madrid, Spain) Seoul 2006 Open Session: Customer needs: The engines of change for Government Libraries and Information Centers Call for papers Oslo 2005 Open Session: Destination unknown? Piloting innovation in Government Libraries. Call for papers International Preconference: Successful Preconference in Stockholm with 36 participants! From August 20th to August 22nd 2005 the Section held its Preconference to the World Library and Information Congress in the Government Offices in Stockholm by the title: How government libraries and information services support the strategy of their home organisation in practice. The programme, list of participants and papers and the discussion can be seen at: http://iflagovlibstockholm2005.blogspot.com/ Buneos Aires 2004 Report on the section's programme Sunday, August 22, 2004 Meeting of the Standing Committee I (See: Minutes) Open Session The role of information literacy in a democracy: how government libraries can help. Saturday, August 28, 2004 Meeting of the Standing Committee II (See: Minutes) Berlin 2003 Report on the section's programme Friday, August 1 Meeting of the Standing Committee I (See: Minutes) Monday August 4th Special visits for section members and participants of the workshop: 9:00 Guided tour in the Chancellery of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and library visit (Head of Library: Mrs Dross) (Photo: visit chancellery) 11:00 Guided tour in the office of Federal President Rau und in Bellevue Castle and park (Photo: Bellevue castle) Wednesday August 6^th Open Session Changing Governments, Changing Libraries Democracy through access to legal information for newly democratising nations: the Kenyan perspective JOHN N. GATHEGI (Florida State University, USA) L'impacte du changement politique sur le développement des bibliothèques et des services d'archives en République du Mali depuis 1991 (The impact of political change on the development of libraries and archives in the Republic of Mali since 1991) LAMINE CAMARA (National Directorate of Archives of Mali, Mali) Regime change and the destruction of the Institute for Sexual Science Library, Berlin 1933 REBECCA KNUTH (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii) Changing government, changing libraries, changing librarians: Bulgarian public libraries as access points to government information SNEJANA TANEVA (American Center, Sofia, Bulgaria) and MARGARITA ANGELOVA (National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria) Thursday, August 7^th Title: German government libraries since unification - experiences and perspectives. Venues: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Alt Moabit 101 D, 10559 Berlin Federal Foreign Office, Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin 9:00 - 9:30 Federal Ministry of the Interior 9:30 Opening of the session Welcome address: Ministerialrat Rybak, Head of Department Maria Hentges, Head of Library Lena Olsson, Stockholm, Chair of the IFLA Section of Government Libraries 10:00 - 12:00 Paper and Discussion German government libraries since Unification - models of library organisation since the Bonn-Berlin-resolution of 1991. The example of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Speakers: Gunda Oppermann, Martina Leibold (Library of the Federal Ministry of the Interior) 11:15 Library tour 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break (Transfer to the Foreign Office, security check at the entrance, lunch in the restaurant of the Foreign Office) Venue: Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Werderscher Markt 1, 10017 Berlin, Library and Conference Room 13:30 Tour through the Foreign Office(starting at the restaurant) 14:00 Opening: Head of Department (TBA) Speaker: Bärbel Bendach, Library of the Federal Foreign Office 14:15 - 15:15 Paper and Discussion Federal government libraries in Berlin - new models in a new environment. Speaker: Bärbel Bendach, Library of the Federal Foreign Office 15:15 Library tour 15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 Paper and Discussion Fife new German Laender, new ministries, new libraries - experiences from Thuringia and others Speaker: Maria Göckeritz, Ministry of Science, Research and Art, Thuringia 16:30 - Concluding statement Speakers: Lena Olsson, Christine Wellems Friday, August 8^th Standing Committee II (See: Minutes) Glasgow 2002 National Information policies and the role of Government Libraries Building on sure foundations: the overlooked dimension of national information policies ALAN SMITH (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) Library involvement in state government information policy development in the United States BARBARA WEAVER (Independent Consultant, Thompson, USA) Sunday, 18. August Minutes of the Standing Committee meetings August 17th and August 23rd, 2002 London 2002 The section has organised a seminar/workshop in London in cooperation with the British Government Libraries Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals CILIP. Title of the seminar is: "Informing Government: Government Library and Information Services in the Information Age." Date: 14 - 15 August 2002 Venues for library visits and presentations were 13 different departments in London including Department of Trade and Industry Department of Culture, Media and Sport Cabinet Office Centre for Management and Policy Studies Home Office Department of Health Foreign and Commonwealth Office Department for Work and Pensions Department for International Development Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions Department for Education and Skills The opening session and the closing session took place in the Department of Trade and Industry's Conference Centre. Speakers from Great Britain, Finland, Germany and the United States presented papers on IT and electronic delivery Cataloguing - an essential skill reborn Outside the box -broadening horizons Strategic management - shifting up a gear. The seminar started with a welcome from Lena Olsson, Chair of the IFLA Section on Government Libraries, and Linda Wishart, Chair of the UK Committee of Departmental Librarians. In each department the head of library and information services presented the services and the library - additionally one paper was presented by a speaker. The summary was presented by David Smith Seminar website: http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/glg/ifla/index.htm All papers are published on the website of the conference at http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/glg/ifla/papers.htm Responsible: Suzanne Burge, London E-mail: Suzanne.Burge@ombudsman.gsi.gov.uk Boston 2001 Off-site workshop in cooperation with the Middlesex Law Library on: "Strategies for recognition - how to promote government libraries and services." August 23, 2001 Workshop 'Strategies for Recognition: How to Promote Government Library Services': Report by Rob Klaverstijn Strategies for recognition - how to promote government libraries and services paper by MARNIE WARNER (Law Library Coordinator, Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries, USA)
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