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DRAFT SCHEDULE
Geography and Map Libraries Section
64th IFLA General Conference
Amsterdam RAI Congress Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
Friday, August 14
14:00 - 18:00
Special Libraries Coordinating Board I (#4)
Saturday, August 15
9:00 - 11:50
Geography and Map Libraries Standing Committee I (#14)
Evening
Reception for IFLA Officers (on invitation only)
Sunday, August 16
Evening
Opening of Exhibition/Reception (#77)
Monday, August 17
8:30 - 10:30
Open Session (#81)
1) English and Dutch Cartographic Resources at New York Public
Library; or "What's Happening in New Amsterdam!"
ALICE C. HUDSON (Chief, Map Division, New York Public Library, New
York, NY, USA)
2) The American Geographical Society Collection -- two decades after
the move.
CHRISTOPHER M. BARUTH (American Geographical Society Collection,
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
3) Le Nouveau Center de Documentation de L'Institut Geographique
National
PIERRE PLANQUES (Chef, Service de la Documentation Geographique,
Institut Geographique National, Saint-Mande, France)
10:45 - 12:45
Special Libraries Division Open Forum (#88)
"What's Special About Special Libraries?"
1) DAVID BENDER (Executive Director, Special Libraries Association)
2) CARLA FUNK (Executive Director, Medical Library Association)
16:00 - 18:00
Opening Session (#92) and Reception (#93)
Tuesday, August 18
9:00 - 11:00
Train to Enschede (2 hours)
International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Science (ITC)
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee
11:15 - 12:15
Tour through thr ITC
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
WWW: Offering and Finding Maps
MENNO-JAN KRAAK (Chair, Dutch Cartographic Society)
14:00 - 14:30
A Project Teaching Remote Sensing Classification Techniques:
Monitoring Land Cover in Southern France BAREND KOEBBEN (Utrecht
University and the ITC)
14:30 - 15:00
Archiving Metadata: From Ideas to Implementation
WAN BAKX
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 16:00
Demonstration of ILWIS, a GIS for land and water information
16:00 - 16:30
Drink
16:30 - 18:30
Train back to Amsterdam
Evening
Ministry of Culture Event (#119)
Wednesday, August 19
9:00 - 11:00
University of Amsterdam
Host: JAN WERNER (Map Librarian, University of Amsterdam)
1) Tour Ortelius Exhibition
2) Visit to the Map Department
11:30 - 12:30
Train to The Hague
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 16:00
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), Map Department
Host: JAN SMITS (Map Curator, Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
Evening
Extend visit in The Hague or return to Amsterdam by train
Thursday, August 20
Vrije Universiteit (Free University)
Room OE-35
9:00 - 18:00
Geography and Map Libraries: Workshop
Theme: "Managing Digital GeoData in Libraries"
Convenor: PATRICK MCGLAMERY (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
USA)
Evening
Library Visits and Receptions (#162)
Friday, August 21
8:00 - 9:50
Geography and Map Libraries Standing Committee II (#167)
12:00 - 13:50
Special Libraries Coordinating Board II (#200)
Saturday, August 22
Full and half day excursions to cultural sites (#209)
The 65th IFLA Council and General Conference will be held from August
20 through August 28, 1999, in Bangkok, Thailand. Future conferences
are: Jerusalem, August 11 through August 19, 2000; Boston,
Massachusetts, USA in 2001; Glasgow, Scotland, UK in 2002; and Berlin,
Germany in 2003.
David C. McQuillan
Map Librarian
Thomas Cooper Library
Division of Libraries and Information Systems
University of South Carolina
Columbia, S.C. 29208
Phone: (803) 777-4723
Fax: (803) 777-4661
Internet: [log in to unmask]
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