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From: Kolderup-Flaten, Trine
To:
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - SATELLITE CONFERENCE -
MANAGEMENT & MARKETING SECTION AUGUST 2005
World Library and Information Congress,
71st IFLA General Conference and Council, from
14th - 18th of August in Oslo, Norway
IFLA Management & Marketing Section
Satellite meeting
Bergen city, Norway, from Tuesday 9th, after
lunch, to Thursday 11th of August, after lunch.
Theme:
�Management, marketing, evaluation and promotion
of library services, based on statistics,
analyses and evaluation in your own library�.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Co-sponsors are:
Public Libraries Section and Library Theory and
Research Section
Language:
The main conference language will be English. If
the necessary financial support is gained, we
hope to be able to offer translation facilities
for French, and Spanish presentations.
THEME AND OBJECTIVES:
Theme:
The conference aims to
� bring together practitioners from various
types of libraries, researchers and educators
in library and information science to
discuss research methods and strategies, data
collection, evaluation and performance
measurement, and best-practice strategies;
� improve methods for evaluation and
analysis of library work in different types of
libraries;
� encourage continuous improvement of the
libraries� services, by using analysis,
performance measurement, best practice, etc. in
managing and promoting library services;
� share international experience on these
topics.
Subjects for papers may include case studies,
research, projects, best-practice development,
and proposed models related to statistics and
evaluation practices, including discussion of
research methods and data collection and
analysis.
Proposals for presentations, in the form of one
page summaries should be sent by December 15th,
2004 to:
Trine Kolderup Flaten, trine@bergen.folkebibl.no
mailto:trine@bergen.folkebibl.no on behalf of
the organizers.
The proposals should include the name, contact
information and institutional affiliation of the
author; and a summary of the content to be
presented.
All proposals will be evaluated by a committee
with representatives appointed by the three
sections:
Management & Marketing Section: Daisy McAdam,
Angels Mass�simo, Christie Koontz
Coordinator: Trine Kolderup Flaten,
Library Theory and Research Section: Ragnar
Audunson, Beverly Lynch
Public Library Section: Torny Kjekstad, Gunilla
Konradsson
The evaluating committee will inform the
applicants of the results by the end of February
2005.
Final versions of the presentations must be
submitted to the above mentioned address by
the end of March 2005.
After the satellite meeting participants will be
offered (not included in the conference fee) a
special tour (2 days) to Oslo, including
sightseeing, fjords, glaciers, mountains, etc.
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JK Vijayakumar
INFLIBNET Center
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