8. International Bielefeld Conference - last announcement

[Urte Kramer <urte.kramer@uni-bielefeld.de>]

8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006
7 - 9 February 2006 in Bielefeld, Germany

+Academic Library and Information Services:
New Paradigms for the Digital Age +

***Key questions to library and information service managers:***

+Do you believe, that library managers are responsible to prepare their 
institutions for the future, in a rapidly changing environment?

+Do you agree, that libraries are under increasing pressure do justify 
their resources (staff, budget) within their institutions?

+Do you feel, there is an increasing gap between what libraries 
traditionally offer (databases, catalogues) and what our scholars and 
students prefer (search engines)?

+Are you looking for colleagues and experts, who have discovered similar 
problems and are working on concepts and solutions?

...then you should attend the shortly upcoming Bielefeld Conference! The 
conference focus is on "Services", the key paradigm for all library 
activities in the future.

++"Information Services" will design services and interfaces by taking the 
perspective of the end-user. This leads libraries to solutions available 
on the World Wide Web, the global service platform for the commercial, 
public and increasingly the academic sector. Libraries could partner up 
with service providers like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, by integrating 
their services into the local service portfolio. --- In Bielefeld you can 
talk both to senior Google Scholar and Microsoft representatives

++The increasing diversity of services requires much stronger 
collaboration also within the library community, on a national and 
international scale. Bielefeld brings many library managers with multiple 
experiences and backgrounds from a wide range of countries together.

++Service planning is not specific for libraries. Experts will share with 
you ideas and existing concepts from the commercial world, including 
impact analysis and the uses of data warehouses.

++For the first time the Conference has included one slot of parallel 
sessions to address hot topics in the framework of hands-on workshops: 1. 
Archiving, 2. Management Tools and 3. Networking of Institutional 
Repositories.  Project managers from a variety of countries will share 
their very real and practical experiences in these areas with you.

***Be with us, when we welcome Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the 
British Library, to give her keynote.***

The programme, abstracts and the current lists of participants are 
available on the conference website at: 
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/. You are cordially invited to 
register online or through fax (+49-521-106-4052).

On behalf of the Programme Committee
Norbert Lossau


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Programme Committee:
Norbert Lossau,
Library Director, CIO Scholarly Information, Bielefeld University
Ronald Milne,
Acting Director, Oxford University Library Services and Bodley's
Librarian, UK
Hans Geleijnse,
Director Library / IT-Services, CIO, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
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