 June
2001
The International Conference for Library and
Information Science Professionals in the Asia Pacific Region
meets 11-12 June, at
the Hilton Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The conference is
sponsored by the Department of Library and Information
Science, International Islamic University, the Library
Association of Malaysia (PPM) and IFLA. Further details and a
brochure are available from Dr. Yushiana Mansor at yushiana@iiu.edu.my
The National Conference on Asia Pacific
American Librarians
,
convenes 13-15 June in San Francisco. It celebrates the pride
of diverse heritage of Asian and Pacific Islander librarians.
More details from Dr. Ling Hwey Jeng lhjeng00@ukcc.uky.edu
13-17 June will see the Canadian Library
Association Conference
convene in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. www.cla.amlibs.ca /
CONF.HTM is its website.
The American Library Association Annual
conference
takes place as
usual in San Francisco, USA. 14-20 June. Conference details
are at www.ala.org /cro /cal.html
28 June-1 July are the dates for the ARLIS/UK
& Ireland Conference 2001
. Digitising images on demand... Taming the
internet... Engaging with ICT... Virtualising reader services
and all the other professional issues we ignore at our peril.
Venue: Queen Mary and Westfield College, East End, London. http://
arlis.nal.vam.ac.uk /even /conf.html has more about this
interesting meeting.
July 2001
The American Association of Law Libraries
Annual Meeting and Conference takes
place 14-19 July at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http:// www.aallnet.org /events
tells you more.
August 2001
4th World Conference on Continuing Professional
Education for the Library and Information
Professions
, meets at Chester, Vermont
15-17 August. Organised by IFLA CPERT the theme is Delivering
lifelong continuing professional education across space and
time. See CPERT web pages at http://
www.ifla.org for more
details.
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The 67th IFLA Council and General
Conference
: Libraries and
Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age, meets in
Boston, USA, 16-25 August. http://
www.ifla.org /IV /ifla67 /index.htm has the details. The Regional Section on
Asia and Oceania tackles Bridging the Digital Divide
in Asia. Contact Amelia McKenzie
amckenzi@nla.gov.au
for guidelines about submitting a paper. The same group is
also hosting a workshop on Small is Beautiful:
Strategies for Library Development
, focussing on
strategies to gain support for library services. Rashidah
Begum has the details at rashidah@usm.my
Rivers
of Knowledge is the 9th Special, Health and Law
Libraries Conference taking place in Melbourne,
Australia, 26-29 August. The organisers are calling for papers
at www.alia.org.au
/conferences /shllc /2001.
September 2001
Translation in Management and Information Technology:
Towards Developing a K-Economy, is the theme of the
8th International Conference on Translation
taking place 3-5 September in Langkawi, Malaysia.
The conference website is at http:// web.uum.edu.my /ict/
and email can be sent to penerbit@uum.edu.my
The 5th European Conference on Research and
Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
reviews the impact digital libraries
have on science, technology and society in general. It takes
place in Darmstadt, Germany, 4-8 September. http:// www.ecdl2001.org is
the home page to consult.
New Orleans, Louisiana is the venue of the 24th
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval
, 7-12 September. SIGIR is the major
international forum for the presentation of new research
results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in
the broad field of information retrieval (IR). For details see
http:// www.sigir2001.org.
October 2001
Revelling in Reference 2001 is unsurprisingly the theme
of the 2001 RAISS Conference
taking place 11-14 October at the VUT
Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Email msmith@slv.vic.gov.au
for more details.
Perpustakaan Sultanah Zanariah, Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia and the Librarians' Association of Malaysia are
jointly organising Knowledge Management in the Digital
World . Discussion areas
include knowledge mapping, tools, resource sharing and the
information profession of the future. The venue is the Puteri
Pan Pacific Hotel, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 22-24 October. The
conference website is at www.psz.utm.my /km2001
and email
enquiries can be sent to km2001@ppc.pcz.utm.my
December 2001
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