Library Hi Tech News: Volume 21 Issue 1

“Library as a Portal” – IFLA 69th Conference in Deutschland: A Rewarding Experience

Reports on some of the papers presented at the Interrnational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions] 2003 conference which had the theme of Library as a portal.

Report of the 41st National Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA), held at the Tarka Foundation, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, 7‐12 September, 2003

Reports on the 41st National Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Library Association held at Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, which had the theme Access Point…

Humanizing Information Technology: The Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Long Beach, California, 19‐22 October 2003

Reports on papers presented at "Humanizing Information Technology", the Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, held in California in…

Highlights of the 2003 Charleston Conference

Gives the highlights of the 2003 Charleston Conference, November 2003. Which focused on the future role and functionality of libraries, publishers and venders in conceptualizing…

Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century: 2003

Reports on the conference, "Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century 20032, held in Tennessee, October 2003.

United Nations World Summit on the Information Society – Libraries @ the Heart of the Information Society

Observations from the conference – from coverage and the vantage point of the IFLA Web site, press releases and other reports – held in Geneva in December 2003.

The 5th International Conference on Grey Literature

Reports on the International Conference on Grey Literature held in Amsterdam in December 2003. The theme of the conference was "Grey Matters in the World of Networked Information".

VITLE Experience: HKBU Library Supporting e‐Learning in a SARS Environment

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003 caused massive disruptions in many sectors of the society. Many creative solutions were devised with…

An Electronic Online Access Showroom for the New Acquisitions of the Library of the University of Macedonia

An electronic online access showroom, which will be used to record and to announce the newly acquired books to the users of the library of the University of Macedonia …

Getting started with PDAs: A Library‐driven Project at James Madison University

Focuses on a PDA pilot project aiming to help in many of the tasks of academic life that began at James Madison University in 2002. Describes the project and offer suggestions to…

Around the World to the Institute of Agricultural Science of South Vietnam Library

Describes a project undertaken at the library at the Institute of Agricultural Science of South Vietnam for 12 months. The main objectives were to train both two library staff…

E‐profile: Open archives initiative service providers. Part III: general

The third and last in a series that describes Open Archives Initiative service providers. It profiles services that offer access to a variety of resources and recently initiated…

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