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| Date | October 28-30, 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place | Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania [2], Gedimino Ave. 51, LT-01504 Vilnius, Lithuania. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participants | Participation in the General Assembly is by invitation only.List of participants [3]. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accommodation | Hotel Europa City. Other recommended hotels: Ratonda hotel, Scandic Neringa Vilnius [4], Narutis [5], Klapėda [6],Radisson SAS hotel in Vilnius [7], Grotthuss hotel [8]. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 [9]. Vilnius International Airport [10]. Information about European health insurance card [11]. |
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Thursday, 27 October (Pre-conference)
| Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries Instructors: Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Winnipeg Art Rhyno, Systems Librarian, University of Windsor |
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| 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 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Lighting up Libraries with LAMP * installation of LAMP environment using XAMPP (lab exercise) * using subsets and alternatives with LAMP, e.g. MySQL on Windows |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Lunch |
| 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) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Wrap Up |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Newcomers Meeting |
| Introduction of eIFL services by Monika Segbert. Questions | |
| 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 | |
| MoU and eIFL participation fees by Arnold Hirshon. Questions | |
| Resources Overview by Rima Kupryte. Questions |
| 9:00 - 11:00 | eIFL Business and Updates Moderator: Rima Kupryte Overview of eIFL since last GA. |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 13:00
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Intellectual Property Moderator: Teresa Hackett |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | 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 |
| eIFL network experiences: South Africa, Ukraine, Lithuania, Serbia, China (10 min. each). Actions taken since national events. | |
| 15:00 - 15.30 | Coffee break in the middle of the session |
| Overview of SPARC’s Advocacy Work (NIH Policy) Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC DARE Initiatives (Cream of Science) Strategic planning discussion of eIFL Open Access Program |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 | Presentation of candidates for elections |
| 17.00 - 18.00 | Group meetings (roundtables) |
| 20:00 | Dinner. Sponsored by Cambridge University Press, GALE International and Oxford University Press, Oxford Online Products. |
| 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) Google Scholar (45 minutes presentation and 45 minutes for questions) Technologies and Communities for Creation, Organization, Sharing, and Use of Information and Knowledge |
| 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 Wikipedia, Free Textbooks, and Local Libraries |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Licensing Moderator: Susan Veldsman Creative Commons, what is it and how it works Are we making good use of the licenses negotiated by eIFL |
| 15:30 | Departure to Trakai. Visit to the castle. Sponsored byOxford Journals. |
| 19:00 | Dinner in Trakai. Sponsored by EBSCO Publishing. |
| eIFL.net Board meeting. |