Libraries and
Librarians:
Making a Difference in
the Knowledge Age"
August 16-25, 2001
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Satellite Meetings
- Sponsor: Art Libraries with ARLIS, New England
- Title: "How do I find a picture of ...?" The Changing Nature of Image Research
- Place: Boston/Cambridge
- Date: August 16-17, 2000
- Content: Oportunities for international exchange of current and evolving methodologies used by librarians and visual curators. Visits to the Museum of Fine ARts, Fogg ARt Museum and the Sackler Museum at Harvard.
- Cost: $35 for IFLA attendees; $65 for others
- Contact URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/arlis-ifla-2001/
- Sponsor: Buildings and Equipment
- Title: Future Places: Reinventing Libraries in the Digital Age
- Place: Boston, Northestern University
- Date: August 15-17, 2000
- Theme: An examination of the impacts of new and traditional services upon the library facility within the context of new buildings and the renovation of older faciliites.
- Cost: unknown
- Contact: Barton M. Clark b-clark@uiuc.edu
- Sponsor: Classification and Indexing and Information Technology
- Title: Subject Retrieval in a Networked World
- Place: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
- Date: August 14-16, 2001
- Content: Language and communication in knowledge organization and retrieval; New retrieval technologies for a networked world; Retrieval systems design and implementation; Search engines, classification schemes and thesauri in a networked; environment; Metadata and subject retrieval
- Cost: $250 prior to May 15; $350 May 15 to July 15
- Contact URL: http://www.oclc.org/events/ifla
- Sponsor: Continuing Professional Education Round Table
- Title: Fourth World conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions
- Place: Chester, Vermont
- Date: August 8-10, 2001
- Theme: Delivering Lifelong Continuing Professional Education Across Space and Time
- Cost: $300 for registration and meals; one day registrations at $145 or $155
- Contact URL: http://www.ifla.org/VII/rt7/rtcpe.htm#7
- Sponsor: Libraries for the Blind with the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Title: Digital Libraries for the Blind and the Culture of Learning in the Information Age
- Place: Holiday Inn, Capitol, Washington, DC.
- Date: August 13-15, 2001
- Contact: Local Arrangements - Mary Mohr mmoh@loc.gov
- Sponsor: Library Services to Multicultural Populations and Information Technology and Information Technology
- Title: Technology, Globalization, and Multicultural Services
- Place: Buffalo, New York
- Date: August 14-16, 2001
- Content: How libraries have begun to develop initiatives to respond to the challenges of technology and globalization in a multicultural setting.
- Cost: $150 before June 15; $225 afterward
- Contact URL: http://libris.lib.buffalo.edu/iflabuffalo
- Sponsor: Managing and Marketing Section
- Title: Education and Research for Marketing and Quality Management in Libraries
- Place: Québec City, Canada
- Date: August 14-16, 2001
- Content: In French and English, topics include barriers to marketing in LIS, marketing theory, coursework in marketing and quality management
- Cost: Canadian$75 and free for people from developing countries and full-time students
- Contact URL: http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/EBSI/ifla/index.html
- Sponsor: National Libraries Division and Management and Technology Division with NELINET, the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the Library Consortium Management; an International Journal (MCB Press)
- Title: How Library Consorta Internationally Can Make a Difference for Libraries
- Place: TBA
- Date: August TBA, 2001
- Cost: no information
- Contact: Arnold Hirshon, executive Director of NELINET (ahirshon@nelinet.net)
- Sponsor: Statistics in collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries
- Title: Meaningful Measures for Emerging Realities
- Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Content: Fourth Northumbrian International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services
- Date: August 12-16, 2001
- Cost: $650; single day registration $350
- Contact URL: http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/northumb.html
- Sponsor: University Libraries and other General Research Libraries in collaboration with the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Harvard Institute for Higher Education
- Title: Leadership for Academic Librarians
- Place: Boston
- Content: Five day intensive residential program on the campus of Harvard University.
- Date: August 19-24, 2001
- Cost: $1160 for ACRL members; $1260 for non-members
- Contact URL: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ppe/index.html
Non IFLA-sponsored Satellite Meetings
- Sponsor: Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) of the American Library Association
- Title: Designing and Retrofitting Space for Technology
- Place: Natick, MA
- Date: August 16, 2001
- Content: Examines the issues and principles of space design for technology for both new and existing library space for all types of libraries.
- Presenter: Larry Woods, Director of Information Technology and Health Sciences, University of Iowa Libraries
- Cost: $245 for IFLA members; $295 for non-members
- URL: http://www.ala.org/lama/events/institutes/retrofit.html
- Sponsor: Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) of the American Library Association
- Title: Managing Library Building Projects: From Identifying the Need to Post-Occupancy Evaluation
- Place: Natick, MA
- Date: August 17, 2001
- Content: Provides the tools needed to determine if a building project is needed and tips on its management. Outlines the alternatives available to meet the need and lists the action steps required to implement the selected alternative. Case studies from recent library projects illustrate alternatives, the components of a library building program, and the steps in the design process.
- Presenter: Bill Sannwald, Manager of Liubrary Design and Development for the City of San Diego
- Cost: $245 for IFLA members; $295 for non-members
- URL: http://www.ala.org/lama/events/institutes/retrofit.html
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