Fifteenth Jubilee International Conference “Crimea 2008” The “Crimea 2008” Conference is held under the auspices of IFLA Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education and Business 2008 Topic: Libraries, Information and Education Technologies in the Civil Society Conference Program SUDAK (Main Program) Belogorsk, Feodosia, Simferopol, Stary Krym (Guest Sessions) Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine June 7–15, 2008 2 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Yakov Shrayberg, Director General, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; President, International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT International Association); Vice President, Russian Library Association, Moscow, Russia DEPUTY CHAIRS Ekaterina Genieva, Director General, M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature; Vice President, Russian Library Association; Board Member, European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Moscow, Russia Francis Kirkwood, Member, IFLA FAIFE Committee; Reference Librarian, Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Tatyana Manilova, Head, Library Department, Division of Cultural Heritage, Artistic Education and Science, Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Moscow, Russia Irina Shevchenko, Director, Institute of Postgraduate Education of the State Academy of Culture and Arts for Top Managers, Kiev, Ukraine MEMBERS Rosa Berdigalieva, Director General, National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan; President, Library Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan Andrey Dementyev, Sudak City Mayor, Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Alexander Ermachkov, Minister of Culture and Arts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Viktor Fedorov, Director General, Russian State Library; Member, Presidium of the Council for Culture and Arts under RF President; President, Eurasia Library Assembly, Moscow, Russia Maurice Freedman, Publisher, Consultant, ALA President in 2002-2003 , Mount Kisco, NY, USA Stuart Hamilton, Senior Policy Advisor, IFLA HQ, The Hague, The Netherlands Valery Ivanov, President-Rector, International University of Business and New Technologies; Director General, Nonprofit partnership «Council in Support of Education and Science” in Yaroslavl Region, Yaroslavl, Russia Sergey Khudyakov, Chair, Moscow City Department of Culture, Moscow, Russia Marat Kambolov, Deputy Head, Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Moscow, Russia Mats Lindquist, Senior Executive Officer, Department for National Coordination and Development, Royal Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden Kazys Mackevicius, Director, Lithuanian Library for Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania Boris Marshak, First Deputy Director General for Research and Information Technologies, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; Executive Director, International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia Roman Motulsky, Director, National Library of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus 3 Larisa Nikiforenko, Deputy Director, Division for Arts and Regional Policy; Head, Department of Library Activity Analysis and Forecast, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Alexey Onishchenko, Director General, V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Vladimir Podoprigora, Advisory Board Chair, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center, Moscow, Russia Vitaly Slepokurov, Acting Rector, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Khimki, Moscow Region, Russia Victoria Spain, Editor on International Librarianship, Library Hi Tech News Journal; Scholarly Consultant and Methodologist, Northeastern University Library, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Valery Sudarenkov, Member, Council of Federation of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly; Member, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Moscow, Russia Absalom Umarov, Director, Alisher Navoi National Library of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Kama Urmurzina, President, Kazakhstan Libraries Information Consortium; President, Kazakhstan Republican Library for Science and Technology, Almaty, Kazakhstan 4 ADVISORY BOARD Viktor Andrianov, First Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Vasily Chernik, Head, Department of Culture and Folk Art Institutions, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus Boris Deych, Deputy of Supreme Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Ermukhamet Ertysbaev, Minister of Culture, Information, and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan Vladimir Grachev, Advisor to Director General, Rosatom State Corporation on the Atomic Energy; Chair, Public Council and Commission on State Ecological Control, Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Control, Moscow, Russia Claudia Lux, IFLA President; Director General, Central and Land Library, Berlin, Germany Sergey Mazurenko, Head, Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Moscow, Russia Valentina Pashkova, President, Ukrainian Library Association; Director, Information Resource Center, US Embassy in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Lyudmila Shvetsova, First Deputy Mayor of Moscow City, Head, Social Sphere Complex, Moscow Government, Moscow, Russia Mikhail Shvydkoy, Head, Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Moscow, Russia Vladimir Zaytsev, President, Russian Library Association; Director General, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia 5 PROGRAM BOARD CHAIR Evgeny Kuzmin, President, Interregional Center of Libraries Cooperation; President, Foundation of Information Society Development; Chair, Russian Committee, “Information for All” UNESCO Program, Moscow, Russia DEPUTY CHAIR Ekaterina Genieva, Director General, M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature; Vice President, Russian Library Association; Board Member, European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Moscow, Russia EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Nadezhda Pavlova, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Head of Editorial Board, “Sci-Tech Libraries” Journal, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia MEMBERS Armen Adamyants, Academic Secretary, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia Mikhail Afanasyev, Director, State Public Historical Library of Russia, Moscow, Russia Aleksey Anyutin, Department Head, Innovation Development and Infrastructure Division, Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Moscow, Russia Mikhail Avetisov, Deputy Director, Central Scientific Agricultural Library, Russian Academy of Agricultural Science, Moscow, Russia Norman Briggs, Director, ILIAC/UK, Reading, UK Yuliya Dresher, Director, Republican Medical Library and Information Center of the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia Vasily Drigaylo, Director, G.I. Denisenko Library for Science and Technology of “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” Ukrainian National Technical University, Kiev, Ukraine Lyudmila Drozdova, Director, I. Franko Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library, Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine Galina Evstigneeva, Deputy Director General for Library and Information Resources, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia Galina Elfimova, Head, Editorial Department, Russian State Library for the Blind, Moscow, Russia Vladimir Firsov, Deputy Director General, National Library of Russia; Vice President, Russian Library Association, St. Petersburg, Russia Mikhail Goncharov, Director, Internet Technologies Development and Maintenance Center, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; Deputy Chair, ”Crimea- 2008” Conference Organizing Committee, Moscow, Russia Yury Grikhanov, Head, Center for National Culture Monitoring, Academy of Retraining in Arts, Culture, and Tourism, Moscow, Russia Lyubov Kazachenkova, Editor-in-Chief, GRAND-FAIR Publishing Group, Moscow, Russia 6 Galina Kislovskaya, Director for International Activities, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia Ada Kolganova, Director, Russian State Library for Arts, Moscow, Russia Boris Marshak, First Deputy Director General for Research and Information Technologies, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; First Deputy Chair, “Crimea- 2008” Conference Organizing Committee, Moscow, Russia Alexander Mazuritsky, Head, Library Science Department, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Khimki, Moscow Region, Russia Yuliya Melentyeva, Head, Readership Study and Reading Culture Department, Research Center of Book Culture History, “Nauka” Academic Publishing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Irina Mironova, Vice President, “Kodeks” Information Legal Consortium; Director General, “Kodeks” Information Company, St. Petersburg, Russia Gennady Popov, Deputy Director General, “AST” Publishing Group, Moscow, Russia Olga Putilina, Department Head (Business Information Office), Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia Sergey Razumov, First Pro-rector, International University of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl, Russia Evgeniya Rosinskaya, Deputy Director General, M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia Yakov Shrayberg, Chair, “Crimea” Conference International and Permanent Organizing Committees; Director General, Russian National Public Library for Science