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Seventh International Workshop
Electronic Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West
The Year 2004 Topic: America and Russia on the Way to Global Information Society

PROGRAM

Session 1
International Cooperation in Modern Information Environment: Input of the U. S. and Russia

Friday, March 12, 2004
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC, 7-th floor

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Registration

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Opening remarks
Dan Davidson, President, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, DC, USA
Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Chairs:

Lester Pourciau, Vice-president, ILIAC, Memphis, TN, USA Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. – Session 1

Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
World Experience and Russian Reality: Library and Information Field

William Morse, Database Administrator, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, DC, USA
An Introduction to the Term "Hacker"

Lester Pourciau, Vice-president, ILIAC, Memphis, TN, USA
Consortium Formation and Participation as a Key Ingredient of Library Networking

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Coffee break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Session 2

Mikhail Goncharov, Executive Secretary, ILIAC; Department Head, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Subject Preferences among Users of Internet Sites of Russian Libraries

William Garrity, Director of Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College; Ellis Rolett, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Dartmouth Medical School; Virginia Rolett, President, ISU, Inc., Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Model for a Transnational Biomedical Library Partnership in the Digital Age

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Session 3

Vladimir Podoprigora, Chair, ILIAC Advisory Council; Vice-governor, Novgorod Region, Moscow-Novgorod, Russia
Recent Parliamentary Elections to the State Duma: A Participant's View

Mary L. Chute, Deputy Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC
Sustaining Communities of Learners within and across National Boundaries

Sandra Bostian, Digital Conversion Specialist; David Nordlander, Historian and Content Manager, "Meeting of Frontiers", Library of Congress. Washington, DC, USA
Russian-American Library Cooperation on " Meeting of Frontiers"

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Coffee break

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Session 4

Tatiana Kuznetsova, Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Academy for Retraining in Arts, Culture and Tourism, Moscow, Russia Additional Professional Library Education in the Russian Federation: Approaches to the System Development

Ivanka Yankova, University Library at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria; Plamen Miltenoff, Information Specialist / Librarian, James W. Miller Center for Learning Resources and Technology Services, St. Cloud, MN, USA Public Relations Strategy of the University Library for Building Students Information Literacy

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Summary and closing remarks Lester Pourciau, Vice-president, ILIAC, Memphis, TN, USA Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Session 2
Role of Public Libraries in Cultural Heritage Preservation in Digital Environment

Thursday, March 18, 2004
New York Public Library
42-nd Street & Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, South Court Conference Center

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Registration

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Opening remarks
Edward Kasinec, Head, Slavic and Baltic Division, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Chairs: Edward Kasinec, Head, Slavic and Baltic Division, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Session 1
Hee-Gwone Yoo. New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
The Visual Collections of the Slavic and Baltic Division: Making Accessible Hidden Treasures

Lev Chaban, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
The Visual Collections of the NYPL: Creating a Unified Thesaurus of Access Terms

Vera Vikulova, Director, N. V. Gogol Library, Moscow, Russia
Digital Personalization: Moscow Personal and Memorial Libraries in the Information Environment

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Session 2

Ekaterina Ilina, Director for Technology and Development, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia
Information Technologies at RSL: Projects Oriented Toward Cultural heritage Preservation

Sergei Basov, Program Director, D. S. Likhachev International Charity Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
D. S. Likhachev International Charity Foundation Programs in Cultural Heritage Preservation

Karina Dmitrieva, Department Head, All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia
Heritage Revealed Project of All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Coffee break

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Summary and closing remarks Edward Kasinec, Head, Slavic and Baltic Division, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Yakov Shraiberg, President, ILIAC; First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia