At the moment, the IFLA conference begins at Milano in Italy. Please read IFLA Express, the daily newspaper reporting from the conference.
Last week a couple of satellite conferences took place at Florence, for example the meeting “Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology”. The german librarian weblog “Librarians are uncool” is reporting in Enlish from Milano. And if you want to search for reactions in “real time” just use the Twitter search with the keyword “ifla2009″.
August 22, 2009
“Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage”
May 16, 2009
Bibcamp Stuttgart II
Yesterday and today, the second bibcamp in Germany took place in Stuttgart. On the platform of the unconference you can find a documentation of the several reports on twitter, blogs and of photos. 40 – 50 library 2.0-activists participated at the conference and discussed applications, programs, strategies and possibilities under the different circumstances. For example, mobile services are in the U.S.A. common. In Germany we are in the beginnings to customize our services to end user applications like hand helds, PDAs and other. Because of this, it was a good announcement, that the dean of LIS faculty of the “Hochschule der Medien” (Stuttgart Univ. of Applied Sciences in Media) said, that in autumn a new Bachelor (of Sc.) degree programme will be implemented on the field of “Mobile Media”
The next bibcamp will be at 2010 in Hannover!
May 8, 2009
Bibcamp Stuttgart
In one week the second Bibcamp will take place in Stuttgart. The ca. 50 participants will create a programme of their own. Just consult the social forum of the Bibcamp (in German) to see members and themes.
February 22, 2009
About the Third Presidential Meeting
Stuart Hamilton, Senior Policy Advisor of IFLA Headquarts, wrote in his Blog February 18th ff. over the Third IFLA Presidential Meeting at Berlin. The conference programme was entitled ‘Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries’.
December 10, 2008
The third Presidential Meeting of Mrs. Lux
Since the presidency of Mrs. Claudia Lux 2007-2009 three Presidential Meetings are held (No. 1-2) and planned (No. 3 in 2009). The third will be at 19/20th february 2009 and the program is published yet under the title “Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries.
The Presidential Meetings are well documented, even if its noted in German, the keynotes are in English.
June 6, 2008
Librarian’ Day took place in Mannheim
The “Bibliothekartag” (Librarian’s Day), the biggest conference of librarians in Germany, took place at Mannheim. 3.100 colleagues participated at many panels, workshops and meetings. The motto of the conference was “Libraries in Information Society” and one focus was “state of the art”: Where do we stay now – and in 10 years. It’s quite interesting that this topic was completed with the panel “Shakers and movers of information – where do we stand internationally?” with colleagues of UK, Australia, and Israel. At the repository of “Berufsverband Information Bibliothek” you can get the powerpoint-sheets of some of the speeches of librarian’s day.
May 4, 2008
General informations about german libraries
The “Goethe-Institut” in Munic is the german institution for external cultural relations. It presents at his homepage general informations about german libraries and the general themes of german librarianship. There you can find schedules of conferences, topics of professional discussion, dossiers (for example about digitalisation), information about projects and links.
March 7, 2008
inetbib conference
“inetbib” is the acronym of “internet und bibliotheken” (=internet and libraries) and is the favourite german mailing list in librarianship. More than 5.000 participants have subscribed the list and about 4-10 postings are distributed every day in this list. Since several years, there is a annual conference “inetbib”, which aims to fosten the themes of the list. This year, the conference is in Würzburg, 09.-11.04.2008. Information about the programme is available at the conferences homepage.
February 13, 2008
Bibliothekartag 2008
The “Bibliothekartag” (= “Librarian’s Day”) is the central meeting of librarians in Germany. It’s the 97th Bibliothekartag from 3rd to 6th June 2008 in Mannheim (Palatinate, in the north of Baden-Württemberg). The preliminary program of the conference is now online. You find the panel discussions under “Programm” > “Fortbildungsveranstaltungen”; the workshops and performances of smaller library associations under “Programm” > “Arbeitssitzungen”.
