Programme and Proceedings

Thursday 11 August 2011

12:00 - 14:00

Conference Advisory Committee

14:00 - 16:00

Finance Committee

16:00 - 18:00

Executive Committee

Friday 12 August 2011

08:30 - 11:00

Professional Committee

09:00 - 17:00

Strategies for managing digital library resources — Library and Research Services for Parliaments

11:30 - 17:00

Governing Board (2009-2011)

Saturday 13 August 2011

08:00 - 09:00

Division Leadership Brief (All SC Chairs, Secretaries & SIG Convenors)

09:00 - 17:00

The Legislative Library of Puerto Rico and matching research and information services to the needs of parliamentarians and citizens — Library and Research Services for Parliaments

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Statistics and Evaluation

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Serials and Other Continuing Resources

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Science and Technology Libraries

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Cataloguing

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Social Science Libraries

09:15 - 11:45

SC I School Libraries and Resource Centers

09:15 - 11:45

ALP Advisory Committee Meeting

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Library Theory and Research

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Acquisition and Collection Development

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Management and Marketing

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Information Technology

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Genealogy and Local History

09:15 - 11:45

SC I Libraries for Children and Young Adults

09:30 - 15:00

SC I Library Services to Multicultural Populations

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Education and Training

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Bibliography

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Government Information and Official Publications

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Library Services to People with Special Needs

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Literacy and Reading

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Health and Biosciences Libraries

12:00 - 14:30

FAIFE Committee Meeting

12:00 - 14:30

ICADS Advisory Board

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Academic and Research Libraries

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Art Libraries

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Rare Books and Manuscripts

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Management of Library Associations

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

12:00 - 14:30

SC I Audiovisual and Multimedia

12:00 - 14:30

PAC Business Meeting

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Information Literacy

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Reference and Information Services

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Metropolitan Libraries

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Law Libraries

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Knowledge Management

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Library and Research Services for Parliaments

14:45 - 17:15

SC I National Libraries

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Public Libraries

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Newspapers

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Library Buildings and Equipment

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Classification and Indexing

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Government Libraries

14:45 - 17:15

SC I Preservation and Conservation

14:45 - 17:15

CLM Committee Meeting

17:00 - 18:00

Caucus: Africa, Asia & Oceana and Latin America and the Caribbean

17:00 - 18:00

Caucus: Canada

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: French Speaking Participants

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Netherlands Speaking Participants

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: CIS

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: United Kingdom

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Spanish Speaking Participants

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Korean Speaking Participants and Participants interested in Korea

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: German Speaking Participants

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Portuguese Speaking Participants

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Nordic Countries

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: USA

18:00 - 19:00

Caucus: Chinese Speaking Participants

Sunday 14 August 2011

08:30 - 10:00

Division Leadership Forum: Div. II - Library Collections

08:30 - 10:00

Division Leadership Forum: Div. IV - Support of the Profession

08:30 - 10:00

Newcomers Session

08:30 - 10:00

Division Leadership Forum: Div. I - Library Types

08:30 - 10:00

Division Leadership Forum: Div. III - Library Services

08:30 - 11:00

Division Leadership Forum: Div. V - Regions

10:30 - 12:00

Opening Session

12:00 - 13:45

IFLA President's Lunch

12:15 - 13:30

IFLA Market

13:45 - 15:45

Information systems for indigenous knowledge in agriculture — Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group

13:45 - 15:45

Innovative approaches to delivering information products and services to Parliaments and citizens — Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section

13:45 - 15:45

Tackling the challenges of multilingualism in the arts: catalogues, databases, digital collections and other material in the global context — Art Libraries Section

13:45 - 15:45

Libraries in Central America and the Caribbean Region — Library History Special Interest Group

13:45 - 15:45

SC I Asia and Oceania

13:45 - 15:45

How to fix the World — Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)

13:45 - 15:45

Cataloguing: breaking barriers — Cataloguing Section

13:45 - 15:45

SC I Africa

13:45 - 15:45

SC I Latin America and the Caribbean

14:00 - 16:00

IFLA Executive Committee with INGO's

16:00 - 18:00

Exhibition opening and opening party

19:00 - 21:30

IFLA Officers Reception

Monday 15 August 2011

08:00 - 18:00

CDNL Meeting

08:30 - 09:15

Plenary Session

09:00 - 17:00

Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section

09:30 - 10:45

IFLA Highlights and News

09:30 - 11:30

You spoke - IFLA acted: our International Treaty for libraries and archives — Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters (CLM)

09:30 - 11:30

How can the IFLA E-learning Special Interest Group (SIG) support integration, innovation and information in professional learning? — E-Learning Special Interest Group

09:30 - 12:45

Data collection in the service of libraries — Library Theory and Research Section with Statistics and Evaluation

09:30 - 12:45

The importance of information literacy for multicultural populations: needs, strategies, programs, and the role of libraries — Information Literacy Section with Library Services to Multicultural Populations and the Special Interest Group on Indigenous Matters

09:30 - 12:45

What is rare material in libraries, and what are the consequences for actions — Rare Books and Manuscripts

09:45 - 12:45

New Professionals beyond New Professionals - skills, needs and strategies of a new generation of LIS professionals — New Professionals Special Interest Group

11:00 - 12:00

Caucus: Arab countries

11:00 - 12:45

UNESCO Open Session

11:45 - 12:45

Officers Training Session 1

11:45 - 12:45

Q&A: IFLA training programmes — Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)

12:00 - 14:00

Poster Sessions

13:45 - 15:45

Can the new book economy guarantee freedom of access to information? — CLM with FAIFE

13:45 - 15:45

Political and constitutional status of Puerto Rico: a continuing challenge — Law Libraries Section with Government Libraries

13:45 - 15:45

Dispossessed persons: preserving culture in an age of migration — Genealogy and Local History Section

13:45 - 15:45

Integration, innovation and information for all in Latin America and the Caribbean libraries — Latin American and the Caribbean Section

13:45 - 15:45

How broadband makes cities and libraries intelligent — Metropolitan Libraries Section

13:45 - 15:45

Current issues of measuring electronic library services — E-Metrics Special Interest Group

16:00 - 18:00

Developing collections in hard financial times: proactive collaboration, balancing e-resources vs. print, low-cost options and alternative resources, fee resources… — Acquisition and Collection Development Section

16:00 - 18:00

Sustainable innovation and green information for all — Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group

16:00 - 18:00

The challenges and changing roles of the Science and Technology Libraries — Science and Technology Libraries Section

16:00 - 18:00

Beyond the United Nations Decade of Literacy: what libraries can do — Literacy and Reading Section with National Libraries

16:00 - 18:00

Library and Information Science Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities and challenges — LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group with Latin America and the Caribbean

16:00 - 18:00

Including children and young adults with special needs in the library — Library Services to People with Special Needs Section with Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Tuesday 16 August 2011

TBA

Reference and Information Services Workshop

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Library Services to Multicultural Populations

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Acquisition and Collection Development

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Africa

08:30 - 09:15

Plenary Session

09:00 - 18:00

AV collections for non-specialist librarians — Audiovisual and Multimedia Section

09:30 - 11:30

e-Government: the role of librarians — Government Information and Official Publications Section with Government Libraries

09:30 - 12:30

Internships and placements for the new information society — Education and Training

09:30 - 12:45

Rare and special collections depending on history: Latin America and the Caribbean — Rare Books and Manuscripts Section with Latin America and the Caribbean

09:30 - 12:45

Rethinking the role of public libraries — Public Libraries Section with Metropolitan Libraries

09:30 - 12:45

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a strategy to build strong libraries and library associations — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section with Management of Library Associations

09:30 - 12:45

Vision 2020: innovative policies, services and tools — Management and Marketing Section with Academic and Research Libraries

09:30 - 12:45

Libraries – A force for change — President-Elect Planning

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Genealogy and Local History

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Library Services to People with Special Needs

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Health and Biosciences Libraries

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Law Libraries

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Preservation and Conservation

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Literacy and Reading

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Latin America and the Caribbean

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Art Libraries

11:45 - 12:45

Web-Editors meeting (1)

11:45 - 13:00

Corporate Partners Meeting

12:00 - 14:00

Poster Sessions

13:15 - 14:45

SC II Library and Research Services for Parliaments

13:15 - 14:45

SC II Government Information and Official Publications

13:15 - 14:45

SC II Cataloguing

13:45 - 14:45

Officers Training Session 2

13:45 - 15:45

Libraries beyond libraries; integration, innovation and information for all — Social Science Libraries Section

13:45 - 15:45

Winds of Change: a taxonomy of clouds for libraries — OCLC Parallel Symposium

13:45 - 15:45

Access to information: the Afro-Caribbean connection / Accès à l’information : parallèles entre l’Afrique et les Antilles — Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) / Réseau d’accès à l’information en Afrique (RAIA) Special Interest Group

13:45 - 15:45

Student access to new and emerging technologies — School Libraries and Resource Centres Section

15:00 - 16:30

SC II Library Theory and Research

15:00 - 16:30

SC II Children and Young Adults

16:00 - 18:00

e-Book technologies: global accessibility and information for all — Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section

16:00 - 18:00

Libraries providing integration, innovation and information for women — Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

16:00 - 18:00

@your Library

16:00 - 18:00

Bridging domains, communities and systems — Classification and Indexing Section

16:00 - 18:00

2011 Access to Learning Award — Gates ATLA Session

16:00 - 18:00

Knowledge Cafés in action: learning through doing — Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section with Knowledge Management

16:45 - 18:15

SC II Serials and Other Continuing Resources

16:45 - 18:15

SC II National Libraries

19:00 - 22:00

Cultural Evening

Wednesday 17 August 2011

08:00 - 09:00

SC II Knowledge Management

08:00 - 09:00

SC II School Libraries and Resource Centres

08:00 - 09:00

SC II Library Buildings and Equipment

08:00 - 09:00

SC II Information Technology

08:30 - 09:15

Plenary Session

09:30 - 11:30

Discussion of final report of the 'Library Linked Data' incubator group — Semantic Web Special Interest Group

09:30 - 11:30

IFLA Publications

09:30 - 11:30

Access and innovation: delivering information to all — Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section

09:30 - 11:30

National Association Members Meeting

09:30 - 12:45

"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

09:30 - 12:45

Beyond barriers to accessing health information — Health and Biosciences Libraries Section with Library Services to People with Special Needs

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Education and Training

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Science and Technology Libraries

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Asia and Oceania

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Public Libraries

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Government Libraries

11:30 - 13:00

SC II Information Literacy

11:45 - 12:45

Project Presentation - Sister Libraries: what and how and the role of godmothers — Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section

11:45 - 12:45

The IFLA World Report – A call to action [CANCELLED] — Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)

11:45 - 13:45

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

11:45 - 13:45

Improving Lives: Experiences from (ATLA) Access to Learning Award Recipients in Latin America — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Update Session

13:15 - 14:45

FAIFE Committee Meeting (2nd)

13:15 - 15:45

SC II Metropolitan Libraries

13:15 - 15:45

SC II Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities

13:45 - 15:45

Applied knowledge management: a panorama of success stories & case studies in libraries and lessons learned — Knowledge Management Section

13:45 - 15:45

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

13:45 - 15:45

Newspapers in the Caribbean, Central and South America: production, distribution and conservation. Cultural heritage and news media in the digital age — Newspapers Section

13:45 - 15:45

Africa libraries, not just place but interface — Africa Section

13:45 - 15:45

Hot topics in academic and research libraries: conquering the economic downturn - managing transformational change in our libraries — Academic and Research Libraries Section

13:45 - 15:45

Advancing UNIMARC: alignment and innovation — IFLA UNIMARC Programme (UNIMARC)

16:15 - 18:00

General Assembly

19:00 - 21:00

Canadian Reception - in honour of incoming President Ingrid Parent

Thursday 18 August 2011

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Management of Library Associations

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Audiovisual and Multimedia

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Newspapers

08:00 - 09:30

SC II Rare Books and Manuscripts

08:30 - 10:30

Promoting global access to law: developing and open access index for official, authenticated legal information — Law Libraries Section with Government Libraries, Government Information and Official Publications and Knowledge Management

08:30 - 10:30

Sustainability issues in the design of libraries: the importance of creating environmentally responsible library facilities and spaces in the 21st Century — Library Buildings and Equipment Section

08:30 - 10:30

e-Legal deposit: from legislation to implementation; from ingest to access — Bibliography Section with IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies Programme (ICADS), Information Technology, National Libraries and Knowledge Management

08:30 - 10:30

Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (A2K) — IFLA President's Theme Session

08:30 - 10:30

Innovative information services in the digital environment — Reference and Information Services Section

08:30 - 12:00

Children's libraries and books in Puerto Rico — Libraries for Children and Young Adults

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Management and Marketing

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Academic and Research Libraries

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Classification and Indexing

09:45 - 11:15

SC II Statistics and Evaluation

10:45 - 12:45

Moving into the future - a new vision for libraries in Asia and Oceania — Asia and Oceania Section

10:45 - 12:45

Cultural heritage preservation planning against economic and environmental new challenges — Preservation and Conservation Programme (PAC)

10:45 - 12:45

e-Books and interlibrary loan — Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section

10:45 - 12:45

e-Legal deposit: from legislation to implementation; from ingest to access — Bibliography Section with IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies Programme (ICADS), Information Technology, National Libraries and Knowledge Management

10:45 - 12:45

Weaving continuing professional development into every library organisation — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section

11:30 - 13:00

Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group - business meeting

11:30 - 13:00

Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) - 2nd business meeting

11:30 - 13:30

SC II Social Sciences Libraries

11:45 - 12:45

Web-Editors meeting (2)

13:00 - 16:00

Education for digital curation — Education and Training Section with Preservation and Conservation, Information Technology; co-sponsored by ICA Section for Archival Education and Training

13:15 - 14:45

SC II Reference and Information Services

13:15 - 14:45

SC II Bibliography

13:45 - 15:45

NILP SIG Exploratory Meeting — National Information and Library Policy Special Interest Group (NILP)

13:45 - 15:45

Can we keep up with the changes or are the children our teachers? — Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section

13:45 - 15:45

Activities in Indigenous Library Services in 2010-2011 — Indigenous Matters Special Interest Group

13:45 - 15:45

Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

16:15 - 17:30

Closing Session

Friday 19 August 2011

09:00 - 13:00

Governing Board (2011-2013) and Professional Committee