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IFLA Express News about IFLA 2003: World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL, BERLIN, 1-9 AUGUST 2003 Access Point Library: Media – Information – Culture express IFLAMAY 2003 ENGLISH 2 □ Keynote Speaker and He is co-editor of the following journals: Journal of Information Science, Nachricht- Plenary Speakers at IFLA 2003 en für Dokumentation, Information Pro- cessing & Management, and Library Man- an Honorary Senator of the University of agement. In addition, he is chief editor of Leipzig. He was awarded the Order of Mer- the book series “Schriften zur Informations- it of the Saxony State, the Order of Merit wissenschaft” (currently more than 30 of the Bavarian State and the Order of vols.). Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Klaus Gerhard Saur Among the many positions that he holds, he is Chairperson of the Board of the Klaus Gerhard Saur, well known President Hochschulverband Informationswissen- and Managing Director of K.G. Saur Pub- schaft (German Society of Information lishing will be the keynote speaker at the Science – HI), Member of the German 69th IFLA General Conference and Council UNESCO Commission, Chairperson of the in Berlin. His keynote address will be on Rainer Kuhlen German UNESCO Committee for Commu- Monday, 4 August during the Opening ses- nications, German UNESCO Chair in Com- sion. Rainer Kuhlen will lead off the plenary ses- munications (ORBICOM), and Director of sions on Sunday, 3 August at 12.45-13.45 NETHICS e.V. (Information Ethics in the His many different positions in the pub- hrs with a presentation on “Change of Net). lishing and library world include among Paradigm in Knowledge Management – others more than 20 years first as Member, Framework for the Collaborative Know- then as Chairman of the Board of the ledge Production”. Deutsche Bibliothek. Since 1992 he has been a Member of the Board of the Inter- Since more than 20 years, Rainer Kuhlen is national Youth Library Munich, since 1995 Professor for Information Science at the he is the Chairman of the Historical Com- University of Konstanz. In 1985 he re- Adama Samassékou mittee of the German Book Trade Publish- ceived an honorary professorship funded ing Association, since 1994 he is Board by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, in 1993/94 an On Monday, 4 August at 12.45 hrs, Member of the Goethe Institute and since honorary professorship for Interdisciplinary Adama Samassékou who is Secretary Gen- 2001 Vice President of the Goethe Institute. Studies at the TH Darmstadt and in eral of the Preparation Committee for the 2000/01 a guest professorship at Hum- World Summit on the Information Society, Among the many honours that he has boldt University Berlin – Institute for Li- will talk about: “The World Summit - a received during the last 20 years, is the brary Science. He has published widely in First Step Towards a Society of Commonly title of Honorary Doctor of the Phillips- the fields of information retrieval, compu- Shared Expertise and Knowledge”. University in Marburg, the Simmons Uni- tational linguistics, information science Having been Minister of Education of Mali versity in Boston, the University of Ishewsk theory, text condensation, hypertext, infor- for seven years (1993-2000) and former in Russia, and the University of Pisa. In mation/electronic markets, information spokesperson for the Government of Mali addition, he is an Honorary Professor of ethics, electronic communication forums, Continued on page 2 the Humboldt-University Berlin, a Visiting virtual dictionaries and collaborative Honorary Professor of the University of knowledge management. Glasgow, an Honorary Senator of the Lud- wig-Maximilians-University, Munich and 1 Continued from page 1 (1997-2000), Mr Samassékou is currently policies. In the year 2000 election she was president, with ministerial rank, of the one of two European member-nominated African Academy of Languages. candidates for the ICANN board. After obtaining a Master of Arts in philolo- Jeanette Hofmann has recently completed Klaus Ring gy and linguistics from Lomonossov State a research project for the German State University in Moscow, Mr Samassékou Minister at the Federal Chancellery for Klaus Ring will round off the plenary ses- continued his studies in Paris. After obtain- Media and Cultural Affairs on consensus sions on Wednesday, 6 August at 12.45 ing a DEA postgraduate diploma in African building on the Internet. The institutional hrs with a lecture entitled: “Are Internet linguistics from the Sorbonne and a DESS structure of ICANN and the At Large elec- and Print Products Interchangeable Read- specialist postgraduate diploma in organi- tion in 2000 served as a case study. She is ing Media?” The paper will deal with the zational science from the Université de currently evaluating options to reform the cultural historical aspects of the develop- Paris-IX (Dauphine), he was subsequently Domain Name System for the German Fed- ment of media. However, it will also dis- head of the Linguistic Department of the eral Ministry of Education and Research. cuss the results of modern brain research Institute of Social Sciences of Mali, then Jeanette Hofmann pioneered social scien- and cognitive psychology that have director of the National Library of Mali and tific Internet research in Germany as a brought about important insights into the adviser to the Minister of Culture. founding member of the multidisciplinary topic of early learning as well as in lan- research group Kulturraum Internet at the guage and reading competencies. Playing an active role in community life, WZB. Here, she investigated decision-mak- Mr Samassékou was the founding presi- ing and standard setting procedures of the Klaus Ring lives in Frankfurt/Main. He has dent, for Mali and Africa as a whole, of the Internet Engineering Task Force in the mid- studied microbiology and biochemistry at Peoples' Movement for Human Rights 1990s. various universities. After promotion and Education. In the political sphere, he was habilitation and various stays abroad, he the founding chairman of ADEMA-France. The infrastructure and regulation of the became professor for microbiological Internet form the focus of her work today. chemistry. Between 1986 and 1994 he Due to its cross-national architecture is the was the president of the Johann Wolfgang Internet a clear example of the question Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, and about the future of the political right of from 1988 to 1994 he was vice-president self-determination of man in a transna- of the Rectors’ Conference. From 1991 to tional world. 1994 he was a member of the Executive Jeanette Hofmann Board of the “Confederation of European Rectors’ Conferences” at the European Jeanette Hofmann will follow on Tuesday, Union in Brussels. Since 1994 he has been 5 August at 12.45-13.45 hrs with a pres- Executive Director of the Foundation Read- entation on “Democracy and Globalisa- ing (Stiftung Lesen). tion”. Jeanette Hofmann holds a doctorate in Political Science from the Free University Berlin. She heads the Research unit Inter- net Governance at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and Nexus, but has also been with the Free University Berlin and Technical University Berlin. She has been one of the leading scholars in Germany studying the Internet Corpora- tion for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) since its inception, exploring its structure, decision-making procedures and 2 Some Highlights of the Preliminary Conference Programme For the full conference programme, latest programme updates, a list of speakers as well as the conference papers, please visit www.ifla.org and log onto the IFLA 2003 icon. Whilst this preliminary programme gives a general indication, IFLA reserves the right to make changes to this preliminary programme at any time. IFLA cannot be held responsible for any consequences of such changes. For more information about the programme, contact also IFLA Headquarters [email protected]. (programme extract as of 19 April 2003) SI = Simultaneous Interpretation (English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) Off-Site = not in the ICC Berlin (International Congress Centre) □ Some Highlights for all Ⅲ SATURDAY, 2 AUGUST 18.15-23.00 Update Session 18.00-19.00 Welcome Party at the Palais am Funkturm 13.45-17.45 Caucus Meetings – meetings of delegates with Drinks, Food and Music Free Access to Information and Freedom of in various country groups. Everybody is Expression (FAIFE) & Libraries for Children welcome to attend! Ⅲ TUESDAY, 5 AUGUST and Young Adults – Workshop 10.45-12.45 Children's Libraries Ensuring Access to Ⅲ SUNDAY, 3 AUGUST Free Access to Information and Freedom of Information and Creating a Culture of 10.45-12.45 Expression (FAIFE) – (SI) Understanding in a World of Violence and Newcomers Session – (SI) Access Point Library: the Information Conflicts 12.45-13.45 Society in the Aftermath of 11 September Plenary Session – (SI) Ⅲ THURSDAY, 7 AUGUST Rainer Kuhlen: “Change of Paradigm in 12.00-14.00 08.30-17.30 Knowledge Management – Framework for Poster Sessions Library Theory and Research & Free Access the Collaborative Knowledge Production” 12.45-13.45 to Information and Freedom of Expression Chair: Jianzhong Wu, China Plenary Session – (SI) (FAIFE) – Off-site 14.00-15.00 Jeanette Hofmann: “Globalisation and The Librarian: the Key to Open and UNESCO Open Forum – (SI) Democracy” Closed Collections. Issues on Ethics of Abdelaziz Abid (UNESCO, Paris, France): Chair: Mary Jackson, USA Librarianship “The World Summit on the Information 13.45-15.45
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