LIBER 34th Annual Conference 2005

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

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Tuesday, 5 July 2005

Day 2: 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

10.00

 Conference registration (entrance Academy Building)
N.B.:
For those who have registered as accompanying person a sightseeing tour in the city of Groningen will be organized. Information about this tour will be made available in due time.

13.00

Lunch (sponsored by Royal Brill Publishers and Otto Harrassowitz, Booksellers and Subscription Agents)

Pre-conference:
'Converging and dissolving the University Library?'

Place: Auditorium of the Academy Building
Chair: Hans Geleijnse (Vice-President of LIBER)

 Although the digital library is nowadays taken for granted, developments in digitisation continue to accelerate. Electronic journals have become standard, and publishers are digitising their complete back issues. Google has launched a scheme to enable publishers to scan and index their printed books. The end of the hybrid library might well be in sight within a few years. Where does this leave the university library? Will there be a need for library services beyond licence management? The answer may lie in bringing library services closer to the day-to-day needs of researchers and learners. We propose to explore these questions first on a general, conceptual level, and secondly, and more practically focussed, at the level of both research (e-science) and education (e-learning).
 
14.00 Lorcan Dempsey (vice president research OCLC, Dublin, Ohio)
The library in the age of Amazoogle
 
15.00 Coffee / tea break (sponsored by Blackwell’s Book Services, Oxford)
 
15.30 Tony Hey (e-Science Core Programme, UK)
e-Research, cyberinfrastructure and the future of libraries
  
Thomas Hapke (Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
‘In formation’ of better learning environments : the educational role of the university library
 
17.00 End of Pre-conference


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Conference opening ceremony

Auditorium of the Academy Building

18.00

 Welcome by
Dr. S.K. Kuipers, President of the University of Groningen
 
Reply by
Erland Kolding Nielsen, President of LIBER
 
Keynote speakers:
Professor dr. Gert Holstege, researcher neuroscience
The library is a brain extension crucial for the survival of mankind
 
Dr. Leo Waaijers, information expert Dutch university libraries
From library to 'libratory', intelligent design in scholarly communication

Joint Hosts

19.15

 The University, the Province and the City of Groningen welcome you and invite you to a reception and buffet supper.
Location: Academy Building

21.00

 End of programme

Day 2: Wednesday, 6 July 2005