Bergen satellite meeting

IFLA Management & Marketing Section will arrange a Satellite meeting in Bergen city, Norway, from Tuesday 9th , after lunch, to Thursday 11th of August, after lunch.

The theme is: Management, marketing, evaluation and promotion of library services, based on statistics, analyses and evaluation in your own library. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Public Libraries Section and the Library Theory and Research Section. The main conference language will be English.

The conference aims to

1. bring together practitioners from various types of libraries, researchers and educators in library and information science to discuss research methods and strategies, data collection, evaluation and performance measurement, and best-practice strategies;
2. improve methods for evaluation and analysis of library work in different types of libraries;
3. encourage continuous improvement of the libraries’ services, by using analysis, performance measurement, best practice, etc. in managing and promoting library services;
4. share international experience on these topics.

Subjects for papers may include case studies, research, projects, best-practice development, and proposed models related to statistics and evaluation practices, including discussion of research methods and data collection and analysis.

Proposals for presentations, in the form of one page summaries, should be sent by December 15th , 2004 to:

Trine Kolderup Flaten: trine@bergen.folkebibl.no

on behalf of the organizers.

The proposals should include the name, contact information and institutional affiliation of the author; and a summary of the content to be presented. All proposals will be evaluated by a committee with representatives appointed by the three sections:

1. Management & Marketing Section: Daisy McAdam, Angels Massísimo, Christie Koontz. Coordinator: Trine Kolderup Flaten,
2. Library Theory and Research Section: Ragnar Audunson, Beverly Lynch
3. Public Library Section: Torny Kjekstad, Gunilla Konradsson

The evaluating committee will inform the applicants of the results by the end of February 2005. Final versions of the presentations must be submitted to the above mentioned address by the end of March 2005.

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