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GODORT Preconference - ALA Annual, Washington, D.C
International Documents in an Electronic Age
The Open Internet and Beyond: Challenges, Tasks, and Tools for All Libraries
Thursday June 21, 2007
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
World Bank - Eugene Black Auditorium
(directly across the street - see red X on map and directions)
8:30 am
Hospitality
9:00 am
Welcome
Hans Dirk Koehler
Publisher of the World Bank
Extending the Boundaries of Documents Librarianship
Aimee C. Quinn
Associate Director, Central New Mexico Community College and Chair of ALA Government Documents Round Table.
9:10 am
International Documents in an Electronic Age
Charles Eckman
Associate University Librarian for Collections, University of California at Berkeley
What are ID? Why do they matter? How are they used? What are basic ref sources which overarch individual agencies?
9:40 am
Content and Editorial Value Added in the Online World: Statistics and Publications from the OECD
Catherine Candea
Deputy Head of Publishing, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
10:00 am
The E World of Documents from the United Nations and Specialized Agencies
Susan Bennett White
United Nations Librarian, Princeton University
11:30 am
Civil Society, the United Nations, and the G8
Peter Hajnal
Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Retired International Documentation Specialist
Retired Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.
12 Noon
Lunch
12:45 pm
Twenty-Seven Nations Online Together - Evolving European Union Documents
Mary Gay Anderson
International Documents Librarian, Florida International University
1:30 pm
Exploring Regional Organizations as Sources of Documentation on Sub-Saharan Africa
Laverne Page
Area Specialist, African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division
Library of Congress
2:15 pm
International Documents from Asia and the Pacific Rim - Documenting Emerging Economies and Nations
James A. Church
International Documents Librarian, University of California at Berkeley
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Measuring Global and Local Economic Life - World Bank Resources
Valentina Kalk
Rights Manager in the Office of the Publisher at the World Bank
Eric Swanson
Program Manager of the Global Monitoring Cluster in the World Bank’s Development Data Group
4:15 pm
Wrap-up
4:30 pm
END
Facilities, handouts, lunch, and refreshments provided by Bernan, LexisNexis, OECD, Readex, Renouf, and the World Bank.
Following this preconference, OECD will host a reception for participants at their
library, four blocks from the World Bank.
Come meet the speakers and network with the other participants!
For more information contact Chuck Malone at c-malone@wiu.edu
REGISTRATION:
Registration for the preconferences is only through the regular ALA Conference registration. If you are not an ALA member, you can still register for just the preconference by paying the Non-ALA registration fees. The ALA Conference registration page is at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/registration.htm#how
If you are an ALA member, you can register for the conference online, or via Fax/Mail.
If you are not an ALA member, the Fax or Mail option works best, as the online registration requires you to log in with your ALA username and password. To register for a preconference, you will have to look up the event code at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/ticketed-events-prelim.pdf
and enter the code into the event section of the registration form (The code from that page for the GODORT International documents preconference at the World Bank is GO1).
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