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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:07:52 EDT
From: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: IFLA Schedule for Amsterdam
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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]
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