IRRT INTERNATIONAL LIBRARIANS' PRE-CONFERENCE COMMITTEEStatement of Role, Purpose, and FunctionDevelops and hosts an annual preconference for international attendees. 2008 Pre-ConferenceCollaboration & Resource Sharing in the Digital Age Description: Welcome to Anaheim and the 2008 International Relations Round Table Pre-Conference! This pre-conference was held on Friday, June 27, 2008 in conjunction with the ALA annual conference, and focused on resource sharing for international libraries. We provided a continental breakfast and lunch for attendees. Our speakers were experienced global librarians who work to provide resources to libraries large and small around the world. Participants learned how to become part of the worldwide information network of libraries. Speakers: Detailed Description: HINARI – OARE – AGORA are sister programs set up to assist developing countries in gaining access to current scientific information. Three of our speakers will explain how their programs help provide access to current scientific journals for developing countries. HINARI, Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative, is a program set up by the World Health Organization to provide developing countries with access to biomedical and health literature. Kimberly Parker will discuss how HINARI provides journal articles to health institutions in 113 countries. OARE, Online Access to Research in the Environment, is an international public-private consortium coordinated jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research. Evviva Weinraub will talk about how this program provides scientific articles to developing countries. AGORA, Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, is led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The goal of the program is to improve the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security. Mary Ochs will talk about AGORA which provides free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. Our fourth speaker is from another resource sharing organization, eIFL, Electronic Information for Libraries. Rima Kupryte will talk about eIFL.net, a multi-country consortium which negotiates affordable subscriptions, supports national library consortia, and maintains a global knowledge sharing and capacity building network. Some of the areas eIFL works on are open access publishing, intellectual property rights, open source software for libraries and the creation of institutional repositories of local content.
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