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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 08:47:30 -0400
From: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Draft Schedule--IFLA Bangkok
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DRAFT SCHEDULE

Geography and Map Libraries Section
65th IFLA Council and General Conference
BITEC
Bangkok, Thailand
1999


Friday, August 20

14:00 - 18:00
Special Libraries Coordinating Board I (#3)

Saturday, August 21

09:00 - 11:50
Geography and Map Libraries Standing Committee I (#18)

17:00 - 18:30
National Caucuses (#55 - #65)

19:00 - 22:00
Reception for IFLA Officers (on invitation only) (#16)

Sunday, August 22

09:00 - 10:20
IFLA Orientation for Newcomers (#67)

16:30
Opening of Exhibition/Reception (#78)

Monday, August 23

10:30 - 11:50
Genealogy and Local History Discussion Group (#91)

12:00 - 14:25
Open Session (#94)

1) Genealogical Geography:  Place Identification in the Map
Library
WILLIAM H. LAMBLE (Perth, Western Australia)

2) How to Put Your Maps on the Internet
DAVID Y. ALLEN (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

3) The Impermanence of Maps in the Information Age
PATRICK MCGLAMERY (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA)

4) TBA

16:00 - 18:00
IFLA Opening/Plenary Session
(must be seated by 15:30) (#98,99)


19:30 - 23:30
Gala Reception/Dinner and Cultural Performance (#100)

Tuesday, August 24

9:00 - 12:00
Visits to cartographic organizations

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 17:00
Library Visits

Wednesday, August 25

6:00 - 19:00
Geography and Map Libraries Section Field Trip

Travel south from Bangkok, to the Malay Peninsula, along the
western shore of the Gulf of Thailand, to Prachuap Khiri Khan,
at Thailand's narrowest point (7.5 miles/12 km across).  Visit
important cultural sites, a village where traditional fishing
boats are built, a town known for its seafood, a border
settlement next to  Myanmar (Burma), and a pineapple plantation.
Return to Bangkok in the early evening.

Thursday, August 26

Chulalongkorn University Library

9:00 - 17:00
Geography and Map Libraries Section:  Workshop
Theme:  "Managing Digital GeoData in Libraries"
Convenor:  PATRICK MCGLAMERY (University of Connecticut,
                              Storrs, CT, USA)

Instructor:  MELISSA LAMONT (Woods Hole Oceanographic
                             Institute, Woods Hole, MA, USA)

Instructor:  TERRY PLUM (University of Connecticut, Storrs,
                         CT, USA)

Friday, August 27

10:30 - 12:20
Geography and Map Libraries Standing Committee II (#198)

12:30 - 14:25
Special Libraries Coordinating Board II (#210)

15:00 - 18:00
Council II and Closing Session (#218)

Saturday, August 28

Full day excursions to cultural sites

The 66th IFLA General Conference will be held from  August 13 through
August 18, 2000 in Jerusalem.  Future conferences are:  Boston,
Massachusetts, USA, August 16 through August 25, 2001; Glasgow,
Scotland, UK, August 18 through August 24, 2002; and Berlin, Germany,
August 1 through August 8, 2003.




David C. McQuillan
Map Librarian
Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29201

Phone:  (803) 777-4723
Fax:  (803) 777-4661
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]

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