Poster Sessions
Poster Sessions: Tuesday, August 24 and Wednesday, August 25 2004
As in previous Conferences, there will be a Poster
Session within the Exhibition.
The presenters of the Posters will be with their posters on Tuesday
and Wednesday, from 12.00 to 14.00 to give an explanation on their
poster.
Call for Poster Sessions:
Poster Session is an alternative approach for the presentation
of projects/new work will be available for conference participants.
An area on the conference premises has been designated for the presentation
of information regarding projects or activities of interest to librarians.
Presentations may include posters, leaflets (etc.) in several
of the IFLA working languages (English, French, Spanish, German
and Russian), if possible. Further advice on poster sessions may
be obtained from IFLA Headquarters. The Professional Committee of
IFLA will review all submissions.
Colleagues interested in presenting a poster session are invited
to complete the form below and to send it with a brief description
of not more than 200 words of the session (in English, French, Spanish,
German or Russian).
Source: IFLA. General
conference information |
At IFLA 2004 I would like to present a poster on
SMILE: A network for small and medium-sized public libraries
IFLA is the most important arena for international contact and collaboration
among public libraries. For obvious reasons, it is harder for small than
for large libraries to participate internationally.
The idea behind SMILE is to support concrete network-building among innovative
small and medium-sized public libraries.
At this stage, SMILE is a project. During the next 18 months we will
- organize a 3 day learning-oriented workshop for
smaller public libraries in Norway, just before the IFLA 2005 meeting
in Oslo.
- offer workshop participants a training attachment
after IFLA.
Participants from the South (Asia, Africa, Latin-America) or from Eastern
Europe will be given priority. We intend to raise funds to cover local
costs (food, lodging, transport) for these participants
The workshop will be arranged by local libraries in cooperation with
the Department of library education at Oslo University College. Our goal
is: at least 15, and not more than 50 participants.
The training will be organized as an educational program, jointly planned
by the trainee, the receiving library, and the SMILE working group. The
trainees will participate in the daily work of a suitable small or medium-sized
library near Oslo.
We envisage three levels of participation in SMILE:
- Any library or interested person can join the network as an ordinary
member. Members receive all information about the activities
(by e-mail). Membership is free.
- All committed small and medium-sized public libraries, as well as
interested library persons, can join as core members.
Core members must be willing to send and to receive trainees.
- The initiators of the project have set up a small working
group. This group will organize the 2005 workshop and training
program, including fund-raising, publicity and network management.
The future of SMILE after 2005 - including its form of organization -
must depend on the experiences we gain in the first round.
For more information, see the SMILE home page:
http://home.hio.no/~tord/smile/index.htm
and my paper on innovation at IFLA
2003:
http://home.hio.no/~tord/perm/ifla/innov.htm
Bozena Rasmussen
Head, Ask public library, Gjerdrum, NORWAY |