[Web4lib] Call for presentations for ELAG 2009, 22 – 24 April, Bratislava

[Ron Davies]

Call for presentations: "New Tools of the Trade", ELAG Conference, 22 – 24 
April, 2009,
Bratislava, Slovakia.

Web 2.0, social networking applications, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, facetted 
searching,
semantic linking and digital documents are just some of the new 
developments that are
rapidly changing the systems environment in libraries and what users expect 
from the
systems that they use. To respond to these challenges, systems librarians 
and developers
need to "re-tool": they need to discover and master new ways of developing 
and applying
informatics to solve information problems. The ELAG 2009 Conference is 
calling for
presentations on new tools including:
• innovative software, applications and environments
• emerging formats, protocols and standards or new ways of applying 
existing standards
• new procedures and techniques

Place:  Bratislava, Slovakia
Host:   University Library of Bratislava, (Univerzitná kni nica v Bratislave)
Dates:  22 - 24 April, 2009

Deadline for submissions:       24 November, 2008
Address for submission:         ron.davies at ec.europa.eu or 
roy.gundersen at bibsys.no

Further Information is available on the 2008 conference website at 
<https://webmail.ec.europa.eu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/>http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/
  under "ELAG 2009".

Information for presenters

The emphasis of the ELAG conference is on new developments and practical 
experience with library
technology rather than academic presentations but relevant user studies are 
welcome. Presentations
at the ELAG are generally 20-25 minutes in length to allow time for 
discussion. The working language
of the conference is English.

Submissions should include a 300-word description of the project or topic, 
references to sites if
available and a short biography of the speaker indicating background, 
involvement in the project
or activity and public presentation experience. The Programme Committee 
will review all submissions.
Notification regarding acceptance will be made by early January 2009. 
Speakers are normally expected
to provide their own travel accommodation costs and the nominal 
registration fee.

Programme Committee

Ron Davies, Belgium (Co-chair)
Roy Gundersen, Norway (Co-chair)
Alojz Androvic, Slovakia
Iris Marthaler, Switzerland
Ere Majaila, Finland
Martin Svoboda, Czech Republic
Maja Zumer, Slovenia

What is the ELAG Conference?

ELAG is Europe's premier conference on the application of information 
technology in libraries and
documentation centres. For more than twenty-five years, the ELAG (European 
Library Automation Group)
Conference has provided library and IT professionals with the opportunity 
to discuss new technologies,
to review on-going developments and to exchange best practices. The 
conference follows a unique format,
where subject-specific workshops alternate with single-track plenary 
presentations and a variety of social
activities that provide a memorable opportunity to meet and exchange views 
with colleagues from a
wide range of European countries.

The 2009 conference will be hosted by the University Library of Bratislava, 
(Univerzitná kni nica v
Bratislave or UKB) in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia from 22 to 24 
April, 2009.

For information on past conferences go to 
<https://webmail.ec.europa.eu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.elag.org>http://www.elag.org.