The Age of Information and National Libraries (fwd)

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CONFERENCE-ANNOUNCEMENT

The Age of  Information and National Libraries
Conference organized by the Austrian National Library and the
International Forschungszentrum fuer Kulturwissenschaften
3.-4. April 1998
Austrian National Library, Oratorium, 1010 Vienna, Josefsplatz 1,
AUSTRIA

Conference Programm

3. April:      Encounters of the Future
9.30           Opening:        Hans Marte (ÖNB)        Gotthart Wunberg
(IFK)
10              Introduction:   Jakob Steuerer
10.15         Opening speech: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
                  What's new or why Memory at all? On the contemporary
Role of Libraries
11              Coffee
11.30         Comments:       Herbert Hrachovec, Ernst Strouhal
11.50         Discussion

14.30           Round table: The library as a symbolic, real and
?national'location ?
Chair:  Raoul Kneuker (Bundesminsterium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr)

Statements:
Jean-Pierre Angrémy (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
David Bradbury (British Library)
Hans Marte (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Erland Kolding Nielsen (Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Danmark)
Winston Tabb (Library of Congress)

15.30          Coffee
16               Discussion
4. April        Re-presentations of the Past
9.30            Opening:        Sigrid Reinitzer (University Library
Graz)
9.35            Hans Petschar: The role of National Libraries in the
pastand in the future: a          structural and semiotic approach


10.15           National digitisation projects in Denmark, France, Great

Britain, USA, Austria

David Bradbury (British Library)
Hans Marte (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Erland Kolding Nielsen (Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Danmark)
Roland Schaer (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
 Winston Tabb (Library of Congress)

          presentation  + discussion
11              Coffee
11.30           National digitisation projects in Denmark, France,
GreatBritain, USA, Austria
                presentation  + discussion
13              Jakob Steuerer, Conclusion

PARTICIPANTS:
Jean Pierre Angrémy (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Président

David Bradbury (British Library)
Director General, Collections & Services

Erland Kolding Nielsen (Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Danmark)
Director General

Hans Marte (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Generaldirektor

Roland Schaer (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Directeur du développement culturel

Winston Tabb (Library of Congress)
Associate Librarian

Sigrid Reinitzer (Universitätsbibliothek Graz)
Direktorin

Raoul Kneucker (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft undVerkehr Wien)
Leiter der Sektion für Internationale Angelegenheiten

 Herbert Hrachovec (Universität Wien)
Professor für Philosophie

Ernst Strouhal   (Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien)
Hochschulassistent

Jakob Steuerer
Wissenschaftspublizist

 Hans Petschar (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
 Projektleiter Neue Medien

Gotthart Wunberg (IFK, Wien)
Direktor des IFK


Description
The fundamental transformation imposed upon post-industrial society by
technological developments also applies to the basic handling of
historical
sources housed in libraries, archives and museums  and their public
accessibility.
Access to knowledge traditionally guaranteed in catalogues of libraries
and
archives  and in the exhibitions and classification of museum holdings
nowadays appears at first sight as an endlessly slow, wearisome and
economically inefficient process in comparison to the potential offered
by
computer databases with their multi-dimensional access and prospects of
internet navigation.
As in hardly any other area, those institutions earlier prized as oases
of
rest and eternal keeping, where time stands still, have now been hit by
a
hurricane of technological innovation and doubtful scepticism towards
the
future justification of their traditional methods of preservation and
presentation.
Within the framework of a two-day conference organised by the
International
Research Centre for Cultural Sciences and the Austrian National Library,

leading representatives from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the
British Library, the Library of Congress, the Danish National Library
and
the Austrian National Library, will discuss the changing role of
national
libraries in the Age of Information. The conference includes
presentation
of digitalisation projects

Further information : petschar _at__ onb.ac.at

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Dr. Alfred Schmidt
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek / Generaldirektion
A-1015 Wien, Josefsplatz 1, AUSTRIA
Tel. (+43 1) 534 10 / 205
Fax  (+43 1) 534 10 / 280
Email: schmidt _at__ onb.ac.at    WWW: http://www.onb.ac.at
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