--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:07:52 EDT From: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]> Subject: IFLA Schedule for Amsterdam Sender: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> SCHEDULE Geography and Map Libraries Section 64th IFLA General Conference Amsterdam RAI Congress Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1998 Friday, August 14 13:00 - 17:00 Special Libraries Coordinating Board I (#4) Okura Hotel, Meerman I Saturday, August 15 8:00 - 18:00 Registration, RAI Onyx Lounge 8:00 - 10:50 Geography and Map Libraries Standing Committee I (#14) Novotel, Vermeer 3 17:00 - 19:00 USA Caucus, Pulitzer Hotel Evening Reception for IFLA Officers (on invitation only)(#56) Sunday, August 16 7:00 - 20:30 Registration *MOVED* Lounge Forum, RAI 8:30 - 10:20 Genealogy and Local History Libraries (#61) (Start-up meeting to consider Discusssion Group) 14:00 - 14:50 Information Coordinators (#72) 18:00 - 19:30 Exhibition Opening and Welcome Reception (#77) Deltahal, RAI 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) 3) ROGER PARENT (Executive Director, American Association of Law Libraries) 16:00 - 18:00 Opening and Plenary Sessions (#92) Main Auditorium and Forum Hall, RAI 18:00 - 21:30 Opening Reception (#93) In and around the RAI Complex Tuesday, August 18 7:30 - 18:00 Registration for Thursday Library Tours Lounge Forum, RAI 9:04 - 11:02 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 the 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 16:58 - 18:59 Train back to Amsterdam 20:00 - 23:00 Ministry of Culture Event (#119) New Metropolis and Scheepvaartmuseum 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 11:42 - 12:33 Train to The Hague 12:45 - 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 Library Tours & Study Visits (Excursion 2: Bus B or D) (#162) 9:00 - 10:30 Depart from RAI for Rotterdam 10:30 - 12:00 Netherlands Architecture Institute Library 12:00 - 12:30 Bus to Rotterdam Public Library 12:30 - 13:00 Lunch at Rotterdam Public Library 13:00 - 14:30 Tour Rotterdam Public Library 14:30 - 14:45 Bus to Rotterdam Harbor 14:45 - 16:15 Boat Tour of Rotterdam Harbor 16:15 - 16:30 Bus to Rotterdam City Hall 16:30 - 18:00 Reception at Rotterdam City Hall 18:00 - 19:30 Bus back to Amsterdam RAI 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) Afternoon Closing Session (#208) 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] --- End Forwarded Message ---