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FYI France: "Rencontres de BIBLIO-FR", Caen, April 3-6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Mon Feb 16 20:05:02 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:15:52 -0600
From: Jack Kessler <kessler@well.com>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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FYI France: "Rencontres de BIBLIO-FR", Caen, April 3-6
The first conference of BIBLIO-FR "online" librarians in France will take
place in Caen this April 3-6. Discussions will be held in French, but I am
assured that foreigners are very welcome.=20
No better way to meet French librarians, visit France in the Spring, see
the Caen of William the Conqueror and Mathilde of Flanders, and climb the
Mont Saint Michel! There is even to be a lecture - tour of the Mont's
remarkable manuscripts collection, now housed in the Bibliothe`que
Municipale at Avranches.=20
* A special need, for the "Rencontres": if any of you know of good videos
on international librarianship, which might be shown to the Rencontres
attendees, recommendations and full citations will be received gratefully
by Herve Le Crosnier at Herve.Le_Crosnier@info.unicaen.fr (but please send=
=20
conference applications via the Website shown below).=20
The "Rencontres" program is included here, translated into English -- even
if you cannot make the conference in Caen yourself, the concerns of non -
English medium professionals in making this technology work in their often
different situations makes very interesting reading -- the program may be
seen online in French at http://www.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/biblio-fr
=09=09=09=09--oOo--
=09Program: Rencontres de BIBLIO-FR, Caen, April 3-6 1998
"The purpose of the Rencontres is to permit librarians who are active on
the Internet to get to know one another better as a prelude to cooperation
together in their professional work. A large place is accorded, therefore,
to informal chats, coffee - breaks, and mealtime discussions."=20
"The 'round-tables' are collective sessions which anticipate the
discussion of general issues. The 'workshops' are by contrast intended to
promote professional education through the discussion of common
experiences."=20
* Friday April 3
10h00 : Welcome
10h30 : Opening Session
11h30 : Round Table : The Usefulness of E-conferences
12h30 : Luncheon
14h00 : Round Tables, running concurrently :
=09* E-journals
=09* Digitization : issues and projects
16h00 : Workshops, running concurrently :
=09* Websites for Libraries
=09* Documentary Research on the Web
=09* CD-ROM Networks
=09* Free Access to the Internet for Patrons
18h30 : Dinner
20h00 : General Session : E-journals and License Negotiations
=09Invited speakers :
=09Ann Okerson, Yale University, ARL / Association of Research
=09Libraries, moderator of LIBLICENSE-L e-conference (Invitation
=09undertaken in partnership with the ENSSIB.)=20
=09Jean-Claude Gue'don , Universite' de Montre'al, Conseiller du
=09Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication du Que'bec
=09(Invitation undertaken in partnership with Universite' de Lyon 2.)=20
* Saturday April 4
09h00 : Round-table : Continuing Education for Professionals in
=09Librarianship and Documentation
10h30 : Workshops, running concurrently :
=09* LINUX, and Free Software Generally
=09* Library Management Software and the Internet
=09* French Experience with Subject Library Networks (mathematics,
=09medicine...)=20
=09* Electronic Commerce in Books and Digital Documents=20
12h30 : Luncheon=20
14H00 : Round-tables, running concurrently :=20
=09* Cooperative Projects
=09* The Bibliothe`ques Municipales and the Democratization
=09of Internet Access
15h30 : Workshops, running concurrently :
=09* E-texts
=09* The Metadata and Cataloging of Digital Documents
=09* Training the Users
=09* New Jobs and Skills in Libraries, and Research Tools for the
=09Jobsearch (JOBILISE)=20
17h00 : Round-table : Copyright in the era of Digital Documents -- The
=09Impact on Libraries
From=2019 h on... (plan on a full evening -- this is France) : Gala Soire'e
-- buffet dinner, music, Les Blancs Mollets, dancing
* Sunday, April 5
9h30 : "15 Minutes of Convincing..." : Various firms in software,
publishing and e-commerce which wish to present their products and
services to libraries each will be provided with 15 minutes and Internet /
video access...=20
12h00 : Luncheon
13h30 : Biblioth=E8ques sans fronti=E8res
=09"The information networks enable the development of new means of
=09access to knowledge and to education, and new approaches to global
=09rules about the circulation of information.
=09* How are we to prevent such developments from creating a new
=09division between the informatio - rich and the information - poor?=20
=09* What can be done to resolve the unequal information development
=09which has occurred so far?
=09* What role can libraries play in this global "bouleversement" of
=09traditional means of the diffusion of knowledge and the management
=09of power?"=20
=09with :
=09Georges Sadowsky (ISOC)
=09Jean - Claude Gue'don, Universite' de Montre'al
=09"and video contributions sent in by librarians from all of the five
=09continents."
16h00 : Guided tour of the City of Caen
Free evening
* Monday, April 6
Tour of the Mont Saint Michel and of the Re'serve des Manuscrits of the
Bibliothe`que Municipale d'Avranches (separate from the "Rencontres")
Departure from Caen by bus at 8h, return to Caen at 18h30
=09=09=09=09--oOo--
The above program is the January 26 version and is subject to change.=20
Whatever specific agenda BIBLIO-FR offers at their "Rencontres"
conference, this chance to meet people in France who are grappling with
the digital information revolution in their daily professional lives is a
valuable opportunity for anyone so - grappling outside of France.=20
Most of us are doing what we do online in English, "the language of the
operating manual". If you think _you_ get frustrated, wait until you see
what happens to folks who do _not_ work comfortably in "the language of
the operating manual": imagine doing setup, repairs, replacements,
presentations - to - the - committee, user training, research, and
emergency fixes -- just as you do -- but all on a "batteries - not -
included" basis!=20
And yet the French are doing some wonderful things, using some very
innovative approaches, linguistic and other differences with the
orientation of their "operating manuals" notwithstanding. Caen would be a
good place to appreciate the additional flexibility which the Internet
must achieve before it expands to places like Burma and Senegal and Japan.
A Spring trip to France would not be a bad way to begin any process.=20
Bonne route.
=09=09=09=09--oOo--
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