4 August 2010
Lecture of the Law Libraries Section in Göteborg
Conference Session 96
Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications
12 August 2010 13:45 - 15:45
Creating an international legal information policy agenda: issues and challenges
Speakers from the sections on Law Libraries, Government Libraries, and Government & Official Publications will introduce an important topic, and then chair round table sessions where participants will discuss the impact of these topics on their services, and consider the role of IFLA and other partners in finding solutions. The outcome of these discussions is to create an information policy agenda for the section(s).
Chair and moderator: BLAIR KAUFFMAN (Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
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Future of law collections (print/electronic)
RADU POPA (New York University School of Law Library, New York, New York, USA) -
Online access to government information worldwide
JERRY MANSFIELD (Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C., USA) -
Open access in law
JULES WINTERTON (Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, United Kingdom) -
ILL, document delivery, and copyright issues
FRANK HURINVILLE (Cujas Library, Paris, France) -
Authentication and preservation of digital law
CLAIRE M. GERMAIN (Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, USA) -
Legal research competency
HOLGER KNUDSEN (Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Bibliothek, Hamburg, Germany) and BLAIR KAUFFMAN (Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) -
Professional development and training of librarians
ELEANOR FRIERSON (National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland USA)
Conference Session 105
Government Libraries, GIOPS, Knowledge Management, Preservation and Conservation and Law Libraries
13 August 2010 09:30 - 12:45
Librarians in action: Information policy and human rights
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Introduction to the Program
CLAIRE M. GERMAIN (Cornell University School of Law, New York, USA)
Sustaining the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
AYODEJI FADUGBA (United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania)
Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons)
ELSA BARBER (Biblioteca Nacional Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina) -
The road to unity and social justice: gathering, accessing and preserving Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) records
REGGIE RAJU (J S Gericke Library, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) -
The U.S. 9/11 Commission Records: history, collection access, and issues
JERRY W. MANSFIELD (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA)