World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"
19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa
Poster Presentations
An alternative approach for the presentation of projects/new work is available for conference participants. An area on the conference premises has been designated for the presentation of information regarding projects or activities of interest to librarians. Presentations may include posters, leaflets (etc.) in several of the IFLA working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish).
Information for Presenters of Poster Sessions
List of accepted Poster Session Presentations:
- IT and its role in information management: A case study of the public sector reform in Ghana
Presenters:
Alexander Amo-Baffour and Randy Emmanuel Kommey - TBC
- Digital preservation: The rare and unique's Longevity
Presenter: Antonia Arahova & Eleni Mamma
- Análisis de la efectividad de las actividades de Promoción de la Lectura que se efectúan para adultos en la biblioteca pública Más Luz
Presenters: Margarita Bellas Vilarño y Loreto C. Cárdenas Yzquierdo
- The model of the University Library Authority, a new organizational structure of contemporary academic libraries
Presenter: Sanda Bercovici
- Serving African Studies in Germany: Old Africana Collections Online
Presenter: Hartmut Bergenthum
- New Members Round Table: Mentoring New Librarians into the Profession
Presenter: Sally Bickley
- My Kedah.com
Presenter: Zahidi Bin Dato' Haji Zainol Rashid
- Every Baby a Book
Presenters: Shukriah Binti Hj. Yon, Datin Seri Zainab Abdul Kader and Rashidah Begum Fazal Mohamed
- k@Borneo: who has what where on Borneo in Borneo! A regional cooperation
Presenter: Rashidah Bolhassan
- A Library for the Medical Community: The central Library of the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy- Bucharest. Past, Present and Future
Presenters: Gheorghe Buluta, Crina Mihailescu and Octavia-Luciana Porumbeanu
- College Libraries in Partnership: Focus on the College Libraries Information Network of Jamaica
Presenter: Rosella McCarthy-Spencer
- Indigenous memory, oral tradition & libraries
Presenters: Edgardo Civallero & Sara Plaza Moreno
- The German-Languages Wikisource Project: Digitalisation 2.0
Presenter: Patrick Danowski
- A Streetcar named Book
Presenter: Predrag Djukic & Marjan Marinkovic
- Professional Development in the Scandinavian Countries
Presenter: Pernille Drost
- MC Select: A Gateway to Free/Low-Cost Online Resources for Libraries around the World
Presenter: Barbara J. Ford, Susan Schnuer, Jo Kibbee
- [Cancelled]
- The Right to Literacy and Knowledge
Presenter: Dunja-Maria Gabriel, Ljilijana Sabljak
- Toddlers come to the library: An approach to family
Presenter: Adrián Guerra Pensado
- National Libraries of the World: Digital Photo Album and Directory of Most Treasured and Unique Collections
Presenter: Suzanne D. Gyeszly
- The Library and Information Management Employability Skills (LIMES) Project
Presenter: Yvonne Hamblin
- BOBCATSSS - LIS Future Generation for International LIS Partnerships
Presenter: Petra M.A. Hauke, Christin Mollenhauer, Aike Schäfer-Rolfs, Maxi Kindling, Boris Jacob
- Open Access between Request and Reality. Libraries for the future - Taking up the Challenge:Partner for Scholarly Publishing
Presenter: Petra M.A. Hauke, Ignace Koffi Kra, Jana Rumler and Christin Mollenhauer
- Library statistics for the 21st -century world
Presenter: Micheal Heaney
- Caribbean Heritage: The Road to UNESCO International Memory of the World Register
Presenter: Kathleen Helenese-Paul, Allison Dolland, Jennifer Joseph, Floris Fraser and Yacoob Hosein
- Who is who? : An Itinerant meeting of Updating and Debate
Presenter: Yanósik Hernández Zamora and Grisel Terrón Quintero
- Bringing Taiwan's Culture and Scientific Heritage On-line: The Digital Archives Project of National Taiwan University
Presenter: Jieh Hsiang, Hsueh-hua Chen and Chiung-min Tsai
- From analogue to digital: mapping the conversion of Etv audio-visual archives from a tape-based library to a digital archive system
Presenter: Lynn Johnson and Nohra Moerat
- Cooperative Digitizing of Table of Contents of Books
Presenter: Ulrike Junger
- Archiving and accessing digital collection of newspapers clippings using "Greenstone Digital Library Software": A case study
Presenter: Jaspal Kaur and P Venkata Rao
- Project-Oriented Information Agent (case study)
Presenter: Mi Ra Kim
- Libraries and the Social Web: Using Web 2.0 Applications to Deliver Information in the 21st Century
Presenter: Jennifer Lang
- Information and Semiotics
Presenter: Natasha Langdown
- Information Literacy with Regards to the use of Legal Resources: case study of third year undergraduate law studies University of Cape Town and University of Jos, Nigeria
Presenter: Victoria James Lawal - TBC
- Construction of a Conceptual Structure as a Mediator between MARC and FRBR
Presenter: Suengmin Lee - TBC
- Model Prison Libraries: How to Use Standards & Guidelines to Build Modern and Relevant Library Services for Incarcerated Persons
Presenter: Vibeke Lehmann
- The Integrated Library System (ILS); a coup (d' état)?
Presenter: Anette Lessing
- Citizen Media Library - a new challenge for public libraries
Presenter: Erkki Lounasvuori and Kari Lämsä
- Are We Masters, Detectives or Partners? Research Librarians Using Technology to Diagnose Plagiarism
Presenter: Pauline D. Manaka
- Biblioteca por la salud. Una opción para el bienestar y la calidad de vida de la comunidad
Presenter: Mariela Martinez Noa
- Communal Knowledge Commons Empowering informal Communities in SA Cities
Presenter: Lazarus Matizirofa
- African Library architecture: a celebration of innovation and utility
Presenter: Buhle Mbambo-Thata
- Diagnosis of Braille Brazilian Libraries
Presenter: Marilia Mesquita Guedes Pereira
- A Virtual German National Library: The Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Presenter: Joachim Migl
- Post-merger Quality Control
Presenter: Michiel Moll
- Bridging the Digital Divide with Free Internet Resources - A Model for Academic Libraries
Presenter: Elsie A. Okobi
- Evaluating Educational Internet Resources: A Bluesheet for a Professional Review
Presenter: Heike vom Orde
- Minerva: Sistema Distribuido de Servicios Bibliotecarios /Minerva: A Distributed Library System
Presenter: Alberto Enrique Pedroso Garcia - Bárbara Caridad Lazo Rodriguez
- Development project of a Digital Library for handicapped people
Presenter: Abel Ponce Suárez
- Un espacio para la superación profesional de los bibliotecarios: Cátedra Maria Villar Buceta
Presenter: Vilma Nélida Ponce Suárez
- IFLA Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Presenter: Elizabet Maria Ramos de Carvalho
- Entre Paginas: experiencia radial
Presenter: Mariela Rodriguez Montes de Oca & Clara Raisa Vera Miyar
- The Nobel Library - a literary laboratory for the Swedish Academy and a meeting-place for students and scientists in literature, literary critics, translators and librarians
Presenter: Lars Rydquist
- The Total Probability Theory and its Role in the Evaluation of the Automatic Systems by Practicing it on The Automatic System in the National Information and Documentation Centre (NIDOC) Libraries
Presenter: Sohier Ibrahim Hassan Saleh - TBC
- Estudio de las competencias informacionales de los usuarios de una biblioteca biocentifica y de salud: garantía para el desarrollo, el futuro y el progreso de las organizaciones
Presenter: Marlery Sánchez Díaz
- Women's Reading Clubs in Malawi
Presenter: Robert Sarjant
- Interventions community libraries can embark on to promote HIV/AIDS awareness
Presenter: René Schoombee
- Professional Development and Employee Performance - An Investment in the Future
Presenter: Barbara P. Silcox
- Competencia en Información: bases de datos electrónicas como herramienta de recuperación, evaluación, producción y difusión de la información y del conocimiento cientifico y tecnológico en la UFRJ
Presenter: Vânia Lisbôa da Silveira Guedes and Ana Maria de Carvalho Carreiro
- Library Services to Persons with Dementia
Presenter: Gyda Skat Nielsen and Helle Arendrup Mortensen
- Development of Sustainable Libraries in Northeastern Nigeria
Presenter: Martha Speirs Plettner
- Official Publications and International Exchanges in the 21st Century at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Presenter: Ursula Stanek
- Our Scientists proposal for better work in the Library at "Jožef Stefan" Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Presenter: Alenka Štante - TBC
- The Naked Librarian
Presenter: Christelle Steyn and Janice De Wee
- [Cancelled]
- Information Classification for Children - Comparision between some category search systems and Nippon Decimal Classification
Presenter: Shiho Suzuki
- Chinese Canadian Genealogy (www.vpl.ca/ccg/): An Innovative Resource for Chinese Canadian family historians
Presenter: Janet Tomkins
- Services in their Language, Not just for Ours Multilingual Collaborative Reference Services
Presenter: Paul S. Ulrich
- The Egypt of Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - 2006): Selections from the American University in Cairo's Rare Books and Special Collections Library
Presenter: Stephen Urgola
- Aula "Máximo Gómez": Trayectoria de un espacio de superación bibliotecológico y cultural
Presenter: Irai Uriah Urquhart Rodriguez
- Desayuno en la Biblioteca. Experiencia de un servicio comunitario para personas de la tercera edad
Presenter: Miguel Viciedo Valdés
- Typhlo & Tactus - project, tactile books for visually impaired children
Presenter: Païvi Voutilainen
- National Digital Archives Plan of the National Central Library in Taiwan
Presenter: Wen-lu Wang and Chien-cheng Sung
- eContent Platform Benefits Libraries
Presenter: Christopher Warnock
- Linking Dewey Numbers to Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Subject Authority File: Outlining Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
Presenter: Iman Ahmed Khairy Mohammed Weheba
- Sharing Knowledge - African and German Librarians Stand Together
Presenters: Ulla Wester & Flippie van der Walt
- Taking libraries to the people: making use of container libraries and steel trunks
Presenter: Jean Williams
- The German language Gateway to Historical Resources Online
Presenter: Robert Zepf
- The Experience with IFLA's Actions for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)
Presenter: IFLA Regional Office for Asia/Oceania, Singapore
- Public Library Guidelines for Development
Presenter: John Lake