37th IAMSLIC & 5th AFRIAMSLIC Conference
October 16-21, 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania
(Revised 7 October, 2011)
37th IAMSLIC Conference Full ProgramFINAL
Sunday, October 16
1000 Registration Opens at the Zanzibar Beach Hotel
1030 Executive Board Meeting
1400 Tour of Stone Town
1800 Welcome Reception at the Zanzibar Beach Hotel
Monday, October 17
0815 Speaker Setup & Registration
0845 Opening of Conference, Welcome & Announcements
0900 Guest speaker: Prof. Yunus Mgaya, Deputy Vice Chancellor Administration, University of Dar es Salaam
1000 Coffee & Tea Break (Opening of Guin Auction & Exhibits)
1030 Session 1: Supporting Institutional Research by Discovering, Locating and Organizing Resources (Moderator: Geoffrey Salanje)
- Discovering and sharing information in use of e-resources to enhance use of scientific literature – Presenter: Isedorious Agolla
- The role of NaFIRRI Information Centre in assisting researchers and educators – Presenter: Alice Endra
1200 Institution & Project Updates from Attendees
1245 Lunch
1400 Session 2: Creating New Resources: Adventures with Unique Databases and Collections (Moderator: Maria Kalentsits)
- Creation and development of the electronic library for Fishery Institutes of Russia – Liudmila Kulagina
- Making every penny count: building a world-class trout and salmonid collection on a small budget – Presenter: James Thull
1530 Coffee & Tea Break (Visit Exhibits & Guin Auction)
- Our Safari in migrating from UDF to LC – Presenter: Lucas Kilemba
1615 IAMSLIC Business Meeting I
1745 IAMSLIC Executive Board Meeting II
1800 Dinner on your own
Tuesday, October 18
0845 Speaker Setup & Registration
0900 Announcements
0915 Panel Session: Leadership in Resource Management and Access: Experiences with IODE, ODINAFRICA and Aquatic Commons. (Moderator: Linda Pikula)
- AgriOcean Dspace, a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO- IOC/IODE – Presenter: Marc Goovaerts
1000 Coffee & Tea Break (Visit Exhibits, Guin & Posters)
1030 Panel Session (continued)
- AFRILIB, Online Union Catalogue of ODINAFRICA Libraries: past, present and near future – Presenter: Arame Keita
- Level of contribution of African countries to the development of the Aquatic Commons Repository – Presenter: Moses Ibeun
1200 Lunch
1315 Session 3: Sharing Knowledge, Experience, and Resources: Successful Collaborations and Joint Ventures (Moderator Brian Voss)
- Collection of Malawi’s scientific gray literature for local and international use – Presenter: Geoffrey Salanje
1400 Institution and Project Updates from Attendees (continued)
1500 Coffee & Tea Break (Visit Exhibits, Posters, & Guin)
1530 Session 3 (continued)
- VOA3R: Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, food, and environment – Presenter: Marc Goovaerts
- Smart fishing: using open access resources – Presenters: Janet Webster & Jean Collins
1830 to 2030 Evening Workshop: Working with AgriOcean Dspace, a customized repository software for the aquatic, agricultural and oceanographic communities – Presenters: Marc Goovaerts, OceanDocs Coordinator, UNESCO-IODE; and Linda Pikula, OceanDocs Steering Group, Chairperson of the Group of Experts on Marine Information (GEMIM).
Wednesday, October 19
0830 Speaker Setup
0845 Announcements
0900 Session 4: Protecting our Information and Collections: Data Gathering, Curation, and Preservation (Moderator: Janet Webster)
- Enhancing access to local biodiversity knowledge in the Delta: experiences of the Okavango Research Institute Library – Presenter: Zanele Hadebe
- Information sharing in Africa: reconciling copyright protection and access to information in grey form – Presenter: Luke Mwale
1015 Coffee & Tea Break (Visit Guin Auction, Posters, and Exhibits)
1030 Session 4 (continued)
- Managing digital information resources: a quest for African strategy – Presenter: Violet Ohimain
- Marine and coastal electronic information management in ten countries in support of the UNDP GEF Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLME) Project – Presenter: Lucy Scott
- Marine library information integration: public and private institutions in panama – Yolanda Irene Lopez Franco
1245 Lunch
1400 Session 5: Shaping the Future: Using New Technologies and Defining New Roles for Librarians (Moderator: Lisa Raymond)
- Guest speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Kiondo, Executive Secretary UNESCO National Commission
- The technologically challenged academic librarian: What has changed in the provision of information services in the age of social interactions? – Presenter: Pavlinka Kovatcheva
1530 Coffee & Tea Break (Last chance for Guin Auction)
1545 Session 5 (continued)
- Which alternative tools for bibliometrics in a research institute? – Presenter: Marie Pascal Baligand
- Are Social Media the new Technology for breaking the resource sharing barriers in Libraries? – Presenter: Apollo Abungu
1745 Buses depart for Banquet
1800 Banquet at the Beach (if weather permits).
Thursday, October 20
0845 Speaker Setup
0900 Announcements
0905 Guest Speaker: Dr. Mika Odido, IODE Regional Activities Coordinator, UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
0930 Session 6: Highlights and Developments from Resource Providers: ITOCA, ProQuest, and Inter-Research. (Moderator Marcia Croy-VanWely)
- ITOCA: Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa. Presenter: Pamela Marinda
- ProQuest Presenter: Francois Van Wyk, South Africa.
- Inter-Research: Matt Seaman
1045 Coffee & Tea Break
1100 IAMSLIC Business Meeting II
1200 Invitation to 38th IAMSLIC Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, USA
1215 Adjournment & Closing of Conference
1400 AFRIAMSLIC Meeting
Optional Tours for Thursday afternoon and Friday (details on Registration Form)
Stone town (the old town, museums, slave trade market)
Spice tour and Mangapwan Ruins
Dolphin tour (includes transportation, snorkeling gear, boat hire & lunch)
(For abstracts of Papers and Posters, please see link to full program top of page)
