CONFERENCE CIRCUIT: Libraries as gateways to an enlightened world: The 65th IFLA Conference

IFLA Jerusalem Conference , August 2000

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

XIX ISRA World Conference

President ' s Annual Report to the 67 th IFLA Conference in Boston

worry. When I became President of IFLA, we had around 1450 members (and I would like to remind you that a large association like the ALA which itself has 65,000 members is only one IFLA member), whereas we now have more than 1775 from over 150 countries. Similarly, the best annual conferences welcomed around 2500 participants, while we expect the final figures to be well in excess of 3000. Ther...

66a. IFLA General Conference Section on Management and Marketing Open Sesion ICT and marketing challenges in Latin American libraries

Latin American libraries have experienced an important development in the last two decades. Telecommunications and Information Technologies have been key elements in this process. There are leading institutions with remarkable programs, nevertheless it is necessary to design marketing strategies to improve their benefits. A case study based on a Mexican university library system is presented in...

The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Semi-active control devices have been shown to be more energy efficient than active devices and more effective in reducing seismic structural vibration than passive devices. A new type of semi-active control device, the piezoelectric friction damper has been made in this paper. Piezoelectric actuators used in the dampers can quickly and accurately respond to a voltage signal. They are also effe...