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I N V I T A T I O N
to participate at the Bielefeld 2000 Conference
Value added Gateways to Global Information - Optimizing End-user Services -
Stadthalle Bielefeld, February 8 - 10, 2000
After four successful conferences the 5th European Bielefeld Colloquium will be held now as the Bielefeld 2000 Conference in February 2000.
Information supply via Internet is the main subject of the Bielefeld 2000 Conference: Qualified access to qualified information. We feature papers from highly qualified experts and representatives from Europe and North America. The programme is also available on our website:
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/aktuell/2000conf/prog-eng.htm
There you can find in addition the on-line registration form.
The aim of the conference is not only to inform our participants about the latest developments but, additionally, to prepare proposals for new developments and to assess the future needs of the use of electronic publications within and via libraries. The expected 600 participants will represent the German library community in addition to a considerable number of delegates from other European countries.
The last conferences have shown that those experts are reached, who are able to transfer experiences and ideas into practice within all types of libraries, e. g. university, public and special libraries.
It is a tradition that the conference is organized by three partners: The British Council (Cologne), the Buchhaendler-Vereinigung (Frankfurt am Main), and the University of Bielefeld.
The conference is combined with an exhibition. Manufacturers and distributors of information products and services, as well as information technology and communi-cations suppliers and many other representatives of the information industry will be represented. It has proved to be one of the most important features of the Bielefeld Conference to bring together the main players related to electronic publishing and libraries.
The exhibition will cover current (electronic) publications, information networking and gateway technologies to be used by libraries and publishers. The exhibition will take place in the main entrance hall of the Stadthalle Bielefeld, which will be used frequently by every participant of the conference.
The conference will be held in the excellent facilities of the Stadthalle Bielefeld, close to the main railway station and hotel facilities in the city centre.
We are inviting all librarians interested in or already using any kind of electronic publications as well as all publishers and booksellers interested in the technology and distribution of electronic publications in the library market.
To keep the travel budgets for participants as low as possible, we are still able to manage this conference without registration fees. For the participants of our conference we have inquired special conditions for hotels of varying prices. There are several hotels situated in walking distance of the congress centre. The tourist information will take care of your hotel reservation.
Further information: Sekretariat der Bibliothek der Universitaet Bielefeld Telefon: 0521/106-4051 Fax: 0521/106-4052 E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Yours sincerely, Dr. K. W. Neubauer
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P R O G R A M M E
Stadthalle Bielefeld, February 8 - 10, 2000
14.00 Welcome and Opening Prof. Dr. Gert Rickheit, Rector, University of Bielefeld W. Keith Dobson OBE, Director, The British Council Germany Prof. W. Robert Mueller, Managing Director, Buchhaendler-Vereinigung GmbH Frankfurt Dr. Karl Wilhelm Neubauer, Director, Bielefeld University Library
14.30 Key-note Address Ken Frazier, Director, University of Wisconsin Libraries, Madison (USA), President, Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Steering Committee Chairman, SPARC
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Video-Conference New York - Bielefeld
Different Gateways to different Markets? A Comparison Europe - USA Followed by Discussion
New York Studio: Nancy Kranich, Associate Dean, New York University Libraries, and President, American Library Association (ALA), New York (USA) Ronald G. Dunn, Chief Executive Officer, International Thomson Publishing, Stamford (USA)
Bielefeld Studio: Arnoud de Kemp, Director, Sales/Marketing and Corporate Development, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (D) Russell C. White, President, Elsevier Science, New York (USA) Dr. Karl Wilhelm Neubauer, Director, Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld (D)
18.00 Official Opening of the Exhibition and Exhibitors' Reception
WEDNESDAY, February 9th
Pricing Strategies for Internet Products and Services: Will there be a Market?
9.30 New Role of Subscription Agents Yvonne Campfens, Manager, Global Marketing & Sales Support, Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., Lisse (NL)
10.00 New Pricing Strategies of Publishers Patricia E. Sabosik, Vice President & General Manager, ScienceDirect, New York (USA)
10.30 How should Libraries respond to changing Market Conditions? Prof. Charles Oppenheim, Dept. of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough (UK)
11.00 Coffee Break
Global Cooperation to provide Internet Resources: Politics and Gateways
11.30 The German Approach Dr. Friedrich Bode, Ministerialrat, Ministerium für Schule und Weiterbildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, Duesseldorf (D)
12.00 The U.S. Approach Taylor Surface, Director, Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC), OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
12.30 Product Presentations
12.45 Lunch and Exhibition
15.00 The Nordic Approach Lars Bjoernshauge, Director, Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Videncenter - DTV), Lyngby (DK)
15.30 The UK Approach Rachel Heery, Research Group Coordinator, UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), University of Bath, Bath (UK)
16.00 Opportunities and Limitations of Unified Information Access Services via Gateways Marvin Pollard, Jr., U.I.A.S. Project Manager, Information Technology Services, The California State University, Long Beach (USA) Gordon W. Smith, PhD, Library Policy and Planning, The California State University, Long Beach (USA)
16.30 Gateways to Electronic Resources from Bonn to Wladiwostok Dr. Andrei I. Zemskov, Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow (RUS) (invited)
17.00 Product Presentations
18.00 Presentation of the Bielefeld Millenium Award by the Mayor of Bielefeld
Common reception of the Mayor of Bielefeld and the Rector of the University of Bielefeld
THURSDAY, February 10th
Distance Learning/Life-long Learning. The Role of Publishers and Libraries
9.00 The Technology behind Distance Learning Sebastian Hoffmann, Consultant Media Systems, AXION GmbH, Köln (D)
9.30 The Role of Virtual Libraries in Distance Learning Prof. Dr. Gunter Schlageter, Open University Hagen, Hagen (D) Dieter Schmauss, Director, Library of Open University Hagen, Hagen (D)
10.00 Distance Learning Students and their Use of Libraries Prof. Lorna Unwin, Director, Centre for Research in Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Department of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK)
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 The Open University and Scholarly Publishing Dr. Wilma Mossink, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (NL)
11.30 Panel Discussion Chairman: Dr. Alex Klugkist, Director of Libraries, University of Groningen, Groningen (NL)
13.00 Farewell Address Dr. Alex Klugkist, Director of Libraries, University of Groningen, Groningen (NL)
(The conference will be held in English and German with simultaneous translation.)
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