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Events: 2005
eIFL.net General Assembly, 2005
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| Date |
October 28-30, 2005. |
| Place |
Martynas Mazvydas
National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino Ave. 51, LT-01504 Vilnius,
Lithuania. |
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About eIFL.net General Assembly |
eIFL.net General Assembly provides
information and brings new ideas to member countries on various
developments in world related to electronic information and knowledge
society. |
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Participants |
Participation in the
General Assembly is by invitation only.
List of participants. |
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Accommodation |
Hotel
Europa City. Other recommended hotels:
Ratonda hotel,
Scandic Neringa Vilnius,
Narutis,
Klapėda,
Radisson
SAS hotel in Vilnius,
Grotthuss hotel. |
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Practical information |
Money.
Lithuanian national currency is litas (Lt). One litas equals 100
centas. Banknotes come in denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 litas
and there are 1, 2, and 5 litas, and 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 centas
coins in circulation. Foreign currency can be exchanged at the airport,
hotels, banks and exchange offices. Many hotels, restaurants, travel
agencies and larger shops accept credit cards. Official rate is 1
Euro equal 3.4528 litas. The exchange rate to US dollars is not
stabile and is about 1 USD equal 2.8 litas.
Weather.
End of October is usually chilly and raining. Expected temperature is
about 3 - 5 C degrees above zero during the day. Evenings and nights are
colder, sometime there are 2 - 3 C degrees of frost. Please do not
forget your umbrella, rain coat, warm clothes, and comfortable water-resistant shoes.
Information
about Lithuania.
Vilnius International Airport.
Information about
European health insurance card. |
| Our
sponsors |
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| PROGRAMME Thursday, 27 October
(Pre-conference)
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Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries
Instructors:
Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Winnipeg
Art Rhyno, Systems Librarian, University of Windsor |
|
9:00 - 9:30 |
Greetings
& Introductions |
| 09:30 -
10:30 |
What OSS
is, what OSS is not, and why should you care about this OSS
thing anyway?
* definitions and misconceptions
* OSS options with immediate applicability to libraries
* how to find and foster desired applications for your library |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Lighting
up Libraries with LAMP
* installation of LAMP environment using XAMPP (lab exercise)
* using subsets and alternatives with LAMP, e.g. MySQL on
Windows |
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00 - 14.30 |
OSS
Application Deployment and Link Resolver Highlight
* understanding link resolution, OpenURL, and related
concepts/standards
* two OSS solutions up close: Olinks & CUFTS |
|
14.30 - 15:00 |
Break |
|
15:00 - 16:30 |
Proof in
the Pudding: Installation & Initial Setup of OSS Link Resolver
(lab exercise) |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Wrap Up |
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16:30 - 18:00 |
Newcomers Meeting |
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Introduction of eIFL services by Monika Segbert. Questions |
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Advisory
Board overview and elections by Jan Nikisch.
Questions |
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Terms of
reference of coordinators and day to day communication by Ausra
Vaskeviciene. Questions |
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MoU and
eIFL participation fees by Arnold Hirshon. Questions |
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Resources
Overview by Rima Kupryte. Questions |
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Friday, 28 October
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9:00 - 11:00 |
eIFL Business and Updates
Moderator: Rima
Kupryte
Overview of eIFL since last GA.
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break
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|
11:30 - 13:00
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Intellectual Property
Moderator: Teresa Hackett |
|
11.30 - 12.00
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eIFL-IP: building a national force to influence
the international copyright agenda
Teresa Hackett, Project Manager eIFL-IP |
|
12.00 - 12.35 |
Free Trade Agreements: not free, not fair
Denise Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian, University of
the
Witwatersrand, South Africa |
|
12.35 - 12.45 |
Why we need national copyright advocates
Ghana: Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Ghana |
|
12:45 - 13:00 |
Discussion |
|
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 - 16:30 |
Open Access
Moderator: Melissa Hagemann |
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eIFL network experiences: South Africa, Ukraine,
Lithuania, Serbia, China (10 min. each). Actions taken since
national events. |
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15:00 - 15.30 |
Coffee break in the middle of the session |
|
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Overview of SPARC’s Advocacy Work (NIH Policy)
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
DARE Initiatives (Cream of Science)
Leo Waaijers, Director, DARE Project
Strategic planning discussion of eIFL Open Access Program |
|
16:30 - 17:00 |
Presentation of candidates for elections
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17.00 - 18.00 |
Group meetings (roundtables) |
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20:00 |
Dinner. Sponsored by Cambridge
University Press, GALE International
and Oxford University Press, Oxford Online Products. |
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Saturday, 29 October
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9:00 - 11:30 |
Collaboration on content creation and access
Moderator: Jan Andrzej Nikisch
eIFL survey on Open Source Software for libraries (30 minutes
for presentation and questions)
Art Rhyno, University of Windsor
Google Scholar (45 minutes presentation and 45 minutes for
questions)
Anurag Acharya, Distinguished Engineer, Google Inc
Technologies and Communities for Creation,
Organization, Sharing, and Use of Information and Knowledge
Sidney Burrus, Maxfield & Oshman Professor
Emeritus of Engineering, Rice University, USA |
|
11:30 - 12:00 |
Coffee break |
|
12:00 - 13:00 |
Collaboration on content creation and access
(continuation)
Open learning ideas and applications for educational purposes
Mark Leggott, University of Winnipeg (20 minutes presentation and 10
minutes for questions)
Wikipedia, Free Textbooks, and Local Libraries
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
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|
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 - 15:00 |
Licensing
Moderator: Susan Veldsman
Creative Commons, what is it and how it works
Paula Le Dieu, Creative Commons International
Are we making good use of the licenses negotiated by eIFL
Emanuella Giavarra, eIFL.net advisor |
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15:30 |
Departure to Trakai.
Visit to the castle. Sponsored by Oxford
Journals. |
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19:00 |
Dinner in Trakai. Sponsored by EBSCO Publishing. |
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Sunday, 30 October
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