Full Programme & Proceedings For 79th IFLA World Library & Information Congress To Be Held In Singapore

Here's the full Programme and Proceedings  and the url  http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79/programme-and-proceedings Thursday 15 August 2013 12:00 - 14:00 Conference Advisory Committee 14:00 - 16:00 Finance Committee 16:00 - 18:00 Executive Committee Friday 16 August 2013 08:30 - 11:00 Professional Committee 11:30 - 17:00 Governing Board Saturday 17 August 2013 08:00 - 09:30 Leadership Brief for all Section Officers 08:00 - 12:30 Academic and Research Libraries 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Serials and Other continuing Resources 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Education and Training 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Cataloguing 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Management and Marketing 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Document Delivery and Resource Sharing 09:45 - 12:15 SC I School Libraries and Resource Centers 09:45 - 12:15 ALP Advisory Committee Meeting 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Acquisition and Collection Development 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Statistics and Evaluation 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Social Science Libraries 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Information Technology 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Genealogy and Local History 09:45 - 12:15 SC I Libraries for Children and Young Adults 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Science and Technology Libraries 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Bibliography 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Government Information and Official Publications 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Library Services to People with Special Needs 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Literacy and Reading 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Health and Biosciences 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Library Theory and Research 12:30 - 15:00 Preservation and Conservation Programme (PAC) Core Activity - Business Meeting 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Newspapers 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Art Libraries 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Rare Books and Manuscripts 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Management of Library Associations 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning 12:30 - 15:00 SC I Audiovisual and Multimedia 12:30 - 15:00 FAIFE Committee Meeting 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Information Literacy 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Reference and Information Services 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Metropolitan Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Law Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Knowledge Management 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Library and Research Services for Parliaments 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Library Services to Multicultural Populations 15:15 - 17:45 SC I National Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Public Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Academic and Research Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Library Buildings and Equipment 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Classification and Indexing 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Government Libraries 15:15 - 17:45 SC I Preservation and Conservation 15:15 - 17:45 CLM Committee Meeting 16:30 - 17:30 ASEAN Countries (Association of South East Asian Nations) 17:45 - 18:45 Caucus: Canada 17:45 - 18:45 Caucus: Africa, Asia & Oceana and Latin America and the Caribbean 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Portuguese Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: USA 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: French Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Nordic Countries 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Korean Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Netherlands Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Spanish Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: Chinese Speaking Participants 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: UK 18:30 - 19:30 Caucus: German Speaking Participants 19:00 - 22:00 IFLA Officers Reception Sunday 18 August 2013 08:30 - 10:00 Division Leadership Forum: Div. II - Library Collections 08:30 - 10:00 Division Leadership Forum: Div. IV - Support of the Profession 08:30 - 10:00 Newcomers Session 08:30 - 10:00 Division Leadership Forum: Div. I - Library Types 08:30 - 10:00 Division Leadership Forum: Div. III - Library Services 08:30 - 10:00 Division Leadership Forum: Div. V - Regions 10:30 - 12:00 Opening Session 12:00 - 13:45 President’s Lunch 12:15 - 13:30 IFLA Market: How to get published 12:15 - 13:30 IFLA Market: Preservation and Conservation 12:15 - 13:30 IFLA Market: @your library 12:15 - 13:30 IFLA Market: PC Projects 12:15 - 13:30 Committee on Standards Meeting I 13:45 - 14:45 Caucus: Arab countries 13:45 - 15:45 Re-defining international relations — National Organizations and International Relations Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Libraries and social movements: a force for change — Social Science Libraries 13:45 - 15:45 Marketing on a shoe string — Management and Marketing 13:45 - 15:45 Asia and Oceania – SC I 13:45 - 15:45 The library and the city — Library buildings and Equipment 13:45 - 15:45 Building a learning and knowledge sharing organisation — Information Technology, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Knowledge Management 13:45 - 15:45 Journal use statistics: an overview of the COUNTER Usage Factor project — E-metrics Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Africa – SC I 13:45 - 15:45 Latin America and the Caribbean – SC I 14:00 - 16:00 IFLA Strategic Partners’ Meeting 16:00 - 18:00 Exhibition Opening and Opening Party Monday 19 August 2013 08:30 - 09:15 Trend Report 08:30 - 18:00 Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context — Rare Books and Manuscrips with Asia and Oceania 09:30 - 11:30 National library and information policy as advocacy of future libraries — National Information and Library Policy Special Interest Group with National Libraries 09:30 - 12:45 Agile management: strategies for achieving success in rapidly changing times — Knowledge Management with Academic and Research Libraries 09:30 - 12:45 Libraries as learning organisations: how to nurture growth in our staff and our communities — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning with Education and Training 09:30 - 12:45 Accessibility: Hi Tech for Access — Library Services to People with Special Needs 09:30 - 12:45 Exploring an e-book future (e-book lending models, copyright and other — Copyright and other Legal Matters with Management of Library Associations 09:30 - 12:45 School Libraries and Information for Civic Literacies — School Libraries with Information Literacy 09:30 - 12:45 Diversity in libraries: research reflecting theoretical approaches and practical experimentation — Library Theory and Research 10:00 - 11:30 Future libraries going green — Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group 10:00 - 17:00 AV Collections for Non-Specialist Librarians — Audiovisual and Multimedia 12:00 - 14:00 Poster Sessions 13:45 - 15:45 Collaboration in Collections: Libraries, Users and Information Providers — Acquisition and Collection Development 13:45 - 15:45 Inspiring solutions emerging from open source — Information Technology 13:45 - 15:45 Future Libraries – Future Librarians – Future Skills: Directions for the education and training of children’s and youth librarians - the challenge of identifying competencies and encouraging professional development in the digital age — Libraries for Children and Young Adults 13:45 - 15:45 UNESCO 13:45 - 17:00 Exploring an e-book future (e-book lending models, copyright and other issues). World café — Public Libraries with Metropolitan Libraries 16:00 - 17:00 Gates ATLA Session 16:00 - 18:00 Future libraries going green — Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group 16:00 - 18:00 Bring out the fun of it! New ways of teaching and communicating statistics — Statistics and Evaluation with Education and Training 16:00 - 18:00 Knowledge Café — Knowledge Management with Library and Research Services for Parliaments 16:00 - 18:00 Subject access: Infinite possibilities — Classification and Indexing 16:00 - 18:00 Semantic Web and Linked data for libraries : issues, solutions, realizations — Semantic Web Special Interest Group Tuesday 20 August 2013 08:00 - 09:30 Management and Marketing –SC II 08:00 - 09:30 Preservation and Conservation – SC II 08:00 - 09:30 Latin America and the Caribbean - SC II 08:00 - 09:30 Library Services to Multicultural Populations - SC II 08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Session 08:30 - 18:00 Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) 09:30 - 10:30 IFLA Highlights 09:30 - 11:30 Libraries as partners for better health outcomes — Health and Biosciences 09:30 - 12:45 Macro and micro - ways through the maze. How new methods of indexing and cataloguing can complement traditional cataloguing for audiovisual and multimedia — Audiovisual and Multimedia with Cataloguing 09:30 - 12:45 Open Access to official and authenticated legal information in Asia — Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Library and Research Services for Parliaments 09:30 - 12:45 Indigenous knowledge and multiculturalism in LIS education and library training: Infinite possibilities — Education and Training with Library Services to Multicultural Populations and Indigenous Matters Special Interest Group 09:45 - 11:15 Metropolitan Libraries – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Classification and Indexing – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Knowledge Management – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Library Buildings and Equipment – SC II 10:45 - 12:45 Professional Units Key Initiatives Session 11:45 - 12:45 Presentation of the Digitization Guidelines — Rare Books and Manuscripts 11:45 - 12:45 Information Coordinators & web-editors (1) 11:45 - 13:45 Search, find and read: three steps to access; what has the future library to offer the print disabled? — Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities 12:00 - 14:00 Poster Sessions 12:45 - 13:45 Presentation of Awards 13:15 - 14:45 Information Literacy – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Reference and Information Services – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Public Libraries – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Library Theory and Research – SC II 13:30 - 17:00 Young adults and libraries : innovation, involvement, self-realization — Libraries for Children and Young Adults 13:45 - 14:45 Beyond Access 13:45 - 15:45 Education and training for agricultural library and information professionals: an international perspective — Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Opening up the bibliography for the future — Bibliography 13:45 - 15:45 Tools developed for a better sharing of religious information — Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Officers Training Session 1 13:45 - 18:00 Preserving for the future: Integrating physical and digital preservation — Information Technology with Preservation and Conservation, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Library and Research Services for Parliaments 15:00 - 16:30 Law Libraries – SC II 15:00 - 16:30 Education & Training – SC II 15:00 - 16:30 Government Libraries – SC II 15:00 - 16:30 Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning – SC II 16:00 - 18:00 Hot topics in academic and research libraries — Academic and Research Libraries 16:00 - 18:00 Open access and digital resources — Newspapers 16:00 - 18:00 Future libraries - multiple futures — Asia and Oceania 16:00 - 18:00 Change as a constant: infinite possibilities for reference and information services — Reference and Information Services 16:00 - 18:00 National Association Members Meeting 16:45 - 18:15 Acquisitions and Collection Development – SC II 16:45 - 18:15 Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities SC II 19:00 - 22:00 Cultural Evening Wednesday 21 August 2013 08:00 - 09:30 Library Services to People with Special Needs – SC II 08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Session 09:00 - 12:30 Crossing boundaries: art libraries, museums and archives in a global context — Art Libraries 09:30 - 11:30 Future African Libraries: innovation and creativity in services — Africa 09:30 - 11:30 Policy, strategy and advocacy AND users driving access and services — Library History Special Interest Group 09:30 - 11:30 Government libraries as voices for open government — Government Libraries with Law Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications 09:30 - 11:30 Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA) 09:30 - 11:30 Gold mining! Text and data mining of journals: librarians, publishers and researchers excavating the treasure trove — Serials and Other Continuing Resources 09:30 - 12:45 Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) 09:45 - 11:15 Science and Technology Libraries – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Bibliography – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Libraries for Children and Young Adults - SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Rare Books and Manuscripts – SC II 11:30 - 13:00 Library and Research Services for Parliaments – SC II 11:30 - 13:00 School Libraries and Research Services – SC II 11:30 - 13:00 Genealogy and Local History – SC II 11:30 - 13:00 Social Science Libraries – SC II 11:45 - 12:45 OCLC 11:45 - 12:45 Officers Training Session 2 11:45 - 13:45 Taking charge of your career: a workshop — Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning 11:45 - 13:45 Literacy and Reading with Information Literacy 11:45 - 13:45 Future standards: infinite possibilities — Committee on Standards 13:15 - 14:45 Government Information and Official Publications – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Africa – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 National Libraries – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Academic and Research Libraries - SC II 13:45 - 15:45 Bring out the fun of it! New ways of teaching and communicating statistics — Statistics and Evaluation with Education and Training 13:45 - 15:45 From paper preservation to digital preservation: innovations in Asia — Preservation and Conservation Programme (PAC) Core Activity 13:45 - 15:45 IFLA projects “The World through Picture Books” and “Sister Libraries”: new developments and how to benefit from the project — Libraries for Children and Young Adults 13:45 - 15:45 Research resources for Parliamentarians — Library and Research Services for Parliaments 13:45 - 15:45 Library and information professionals improving the lives of women in Asia Oceania — Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Project presentations – IFLA International Leaders Programme — Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP) 14:00 - 16:15 Literacy and Reading - SC II 16:15 - 18:00 General Assembly Thursday 22 August 2013 08:00 - 09:30 Management of Library Associations - SC II 08:00 - 09:30 Serials and Other Continuing Resources - SC II 08:00 - 09:30 CLM Committee Meeting II 08:00 - 09:30 Newspapers - SC II 08:00 - 09:30 Information Technology – SC II 08:30 - 10:30 Digital collection strategies at National Libraries: challenges and opportunities — National Libraries 08:30 - 10:30 President-Elect’s Session 08:30 - 10:30 Education and training for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine) librarianship: an international perspective — Science and Technology Libraries 08:30 - 10:30 Strengthening access to information: the future of resource sharing — Document Delivery and Resource Sharing 08:30 - 10:30 LIS Education in Developing Countries: Collaboration Across Borders as Infinite Possibilities — LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Groups 08:30 - 11:30 Images, lost and found: innovative approaches to discovery and use of visual material found in rare books, manuscripts, and special collections — Art Libraries with Rare Books and Manuscripts 09:45 - 11:15 Statistics and Evaluation - SC II 09:45 - 11:15 FAIFE - Committee Meeting II 09:45 - 11:15 Cataloguing – SC II 09:45 - 11:15 Committee on Standards Meeting II 10:45 - 12:45 Open Access in the context of full lifecycle of Knowledge Management — Knowledge Management 10:45 - 12:45 International agreements that influence national policy framework for exceptions and limitations for libraries — Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) 10:45 - 12:45 Building the future in Latin America and the Caribbean: local priorities and global opportunities / Construyendo el futuro en América Latina y el Caribe: prioridades locales y oportunidades globales — Latin America and the Caribbean 10:45 - 13:00 New librarians global connection: best practices, models and recommendations — New Professionals Special Interest Group with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning 11:30 - 13:00 Document Delivery and Resource Sharing - SC II 11:30 - 13:00 Asia and Oceania – SC II 11:45 - 12:45 Information Coordinators & web-editors (2) 13:15 - 14:45 Health and Biosciences Libraries – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Art Libraries – SC II 13:15 - 14:45 Audiovisual and Multimedia – SC II 13:45 - 15:45 The infinite possibilities of family history and genealogy in East and South Asian culture — Genealogy and Local History 13:45 - 15:45 Expanding MARC metadata services with linked open — UNIMARC Core Activity (UCA) 13:45 - 15:45 TBA — Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) / Réseau d’accès à l’information en Afrique (RAIA) Special Interest Group 13:45 - 15:45 Information for development action: governments, civil society and libraries — Government Information and Official Publications with Government Libraries 16:15 - 17:30 Closing Session Friday 23 August 2013 08:30 - 10:00 Professional Committee 10:00 - 13:00 Governing Board (Incoming and ongoing)