World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries - A voyage of discovery"
August 14th - 18th 2005, Oslo, Norway
Satellite meeting
Call for Papers:
IFLA Management & Marketing Section
Theme: "Management, marketing, evaluation and promotion of library services, based on statistics, analyses and evaluation in your own library".
Bergen city, Norway, from Tuesday 9th, after lunch, to Thursday 11th of August, after lunch.
Co-sponsors are:
Public Libraries Section and Library Theory and Research Section
Language:
The main conference language will be English. If the necessary financial support is gained, we hope to be able to offer translation facilities for French, and Spanish presentations.
Theme and Objectives
Theme:
The conference aims to
- bring together practitioners from various types of libraries, researchers and educators in library and information science to discuss research methods and strategies, data collection, evaluation and performance measurement, and best-practice strategies;
- improve methods for evaluation and analysis of library work in different types of libraries;
- encourage continuous improvement of the libraries' services, by using analysis, performance measurement, best practice, etc. in managing and promoting library services;
- share international experience on these topics.
Subjects for papers may include case studies, research, projects, best-practice development, and proposed models related to statistics and evaluation practices, including discussion of research methods and data collection and analysis.
Proposals for presentations
Proposals for presentations, in the form of one page summaries should be sent by December 15th, 2004 to:
Trine Kolderup Flaten, trine@bergen.folkebibl.no on behalf of the organizers.
The proposals should include the name, contact information and institutional affiliation of the author; and a summary of the content to be presented.
All proposals will be evaluated by a committee with representatives appointed by the three sections:
Management & Marketing Section: Daisy McAdam, Angels Massísimo, Christie Koontz
Coordinator: Trine Kolderup Flaten.
Library Theory and Research Section: Ragnar Audunson, Beverly Lynch
Public Library Section: Torny Kjekstad, Gunilla Konradsson
The evaluating committee will inform the applicants of the results by the end of February 2005.
Final versions of the presentations must be submitted to the above mentioned address by
the end of March 2005.
After the satellite meeting participants will be offered (not included in the conference fee) a special tour (2 days) to Oslo, including sightseeing, fjords, glaciers, mountains, etc.
