LIBER 34th Annual Conference 2005

University Library of Groningen, the Netherlands
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 July, 2005

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Day 1: Tuesday, 5 July 2005

Wednesday, 6 July 2005

Day 3: Thursday, 7 July 2005
Day 4: Friday, 8 July 2005
Day 5: Saturday 9 July 2005
Excursions in the conference week

Location: Offerhaus Room, Academy Building

08.30	Conference registration (entrance Academy Building)
09.00	Divisional Meeting: Preservation Division

Session 1a
Strategic and Technical Developments in Collection Storage

09.30	Chair: Maria Luisa Cabral (Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal)
	Helen Shenton (British Library, London, UK) Strategic developments in collection storage of libraries and archives – architectural; technical; political
	Ronald Milne (Oxford University Library Services, UK) Strategic management of multi-site and offsite collection storage

Session 1b
Update on current collaborative preservation and conservation research

10.30	Jonas Palm (Riksarkivet, Stockholm, Sweden) Overview of major collaborative conservation research projects and implications for the future preservation of collections

11.00	Photo Session Coffee / tea break (sponsored by Springer)

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Session 1c
Strategic and technical developments in surrogacy

11.30	Chair: Dennis Schouten (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, Netherlands)
	Carla Montori (University of Michigan, USA) Developments in surrogating methods - policy and strategy
	Hans van Dormolen (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands) Developments in surrogating methods (technical issues)
	Ian Gibson MP (Chair, House of Commons Science & Technology Select Committee, UK) Scientific Publications: Free for all?

13.00	Lunch (sponsored by Springer)

14.00	Iris Brueckner (IBM, Education and Research, Frankfurt) IBM - a provider of a system for digital collections and content repositories

Session 2

	Chair: Paul Ayris, University College, London, UK
14.30	Janet Lees (OCLC PICA, Leiden) OCLC Registry of Digital Masters - opportunities for European cooperation
	Françoise Vandooren (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) The EC review of scholarly publishing
	Jean Sykes (London School of Economics, UK) Nereus: building electronic content and services for European Economics researchers

16.00	Coffee/tea (sponsored by Springer)

16.30	William Nixon (University of Glasgow, UK) Institutional initiatives towards open access
	Bas Savenije (Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands) The DARLIN initiative
	Conference Partner: Austin McLean (ProQuest, Cambridge, UK) The DART-Europe Project: Towards Developing a European Theses Portal

Dinner (sponsored by OCLC-PICA)

19.00

Location: Coendersborg, Groningen

Day 3: Thursday, 7 July 2005