Managing the digital future of libraries
18 April 2000 - 18 April 2000
Russia
A international conference on managing the digital future of libraries is being organised in the framework of the European Union's Russian State Libraries project under the Tacis programme, and will be held in the Russian State Library itself, in Moscow, on 18 and 19 April 2000.
The conference will mark the final phase of the European Union - Russian State Library project 'to create an information system for the Russian State Library'. The project is due to finish on 9 June 2000 after 18 months and should result in the implementation of the cataloguing and OPAC modules of a state-of-the-art fully integrated library system. Local and remote users will have access via LAN and Internet to an RSL catalogue database created by converting existing machine-readable databases and retro-conversion of catalogue cards.
Together with other related projects to create the Russian National Digital Library, the project is one of the first steps towards full automation of Europe's biggest library and its future networking with other libraries in Russia and abroad.
The conference aims to:
- Present results and lessons learned from the EU project and other RSL IT projects;
- Discuss main issues and future activities of digital library development in Russia;
- Stimulate Russian-international dialogue and cooperation in digital library development.
The conference organisers have announced a call for papers on the following themes:
- National digital initiatives (policy, planning, funding, research, standards);
- Digital preservation of cultural heritage (policy, selection, methodologies);
- Organisational impact (on Internet management, acquisition of skills);
- New digital alliances (libraries and publishers, museums, archives);
- Digital library services for users (especially development of electronic document delivery services);
- Technology trends (networking, preservation, storage, retrieval);
- Best practice case studies reflecting these themes from Russia and other countries.
For further information, please contact:
Monika Segbert
Project Office
monika@rsl.ru
Tel. +7-095-2022570;
or,
Alexander Vislyi
RSL Deputy Director
Tel. +7-095-2027617
E-mail: avislyi@mail.lib.msu.ru
URL: http://www.rsl.ru/tacis/(opens in new window)
The conference will mark the final phase of the European Union - Russian State Library project 'to create an information system for the Russian State Library'. The project is due to finish on 9 June 2000 after 18 months and should result in the implementation of the cataloguing and OPAC modules of a state-of-the-art fully integrated library system. Local and remote users will have access via LAN and Internet to an RSL catalogue database created by converting existing machine-readable databases and retro-conversion of catalogue cards.
Together with other related projects to create the Russian National Digital Library, the project is one of the first steps towards full automation of Europe's biggest library and its future networking with other libraries in Russia and abroad.
The conference aims to:
- Present results and lessons learned from the EU project and other RSL IT projects;
- Discuss main issues and future activities of digital library development in Russia;
- Stimulate Russian-international dialogue and cooperation in digital library development.
The conference organisers have announced a call for papers on the following themes:
- National digital initiatives (policy, planning, funding, research, standards);
- Digital preservation of cultural heritage (policy, selection, methodologies);
- Organisational impact (on Internet management, acquisition of skills);
- New digital alliances (libraries and publishers, museums, archives);
- Digital library services for users (especially development of electronic document delivery services);
- Technology trends (networking, preservation, storage, retrieval);
- Best practice case studies reflecting these themes from Russia and other countries.
For further information, please contact:
Monika Segbert
Project Office
monika@rsl.ru
Tel. +7-095-2022570;
or,
Alexander Vislyi
RSL Deputy Director
Tel. +7-095-2027617
E-mail: avislyi@mail.lib.msu.ru
URL: http://www.rsl.ru/tacis/(opens in new window)