8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006
7 - 9 February 2006 in Bielefeld, Germany

+Academic Library and Information Services:
New Paradigms for the Digital Age +

***Key questions to library and information service managers:***

+Do you believe, that library managers are responsible to prepare 
their institutions for the future, in a rapidly changing environment?

+Do you agree, that libraries are under increasing pressure do 
justify their resources (staff, budget) within their institutions? 

+Do you feel, there is an increasing gap between what libraries
traditionally offer (databases, catalogues) and what our scholars and 
students prefer (search engines)?

+Are you looking for colleagues and experts, who have discovered 
similar problems and are working on concepts and solutions?

...then you should attend the shortly upcoming Bielefeld Conference! 
The conference focus is on "Services", the key paradigm for all 
library activities in the future. 

++"Information Services" will design services and interfaces by 
taking the perspective of the end-user. This leads libraries to 
solutions available on the World Wide Web, the global service 
platform for the commercial, public and increasingly the academic 
sector. Libraries could partner up with service providers like 
Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, by integrating their services into the 
local service portfolio. --- In Bielefeld you can talk both to senior 
Google Scholar and Microsoft representatives

++The increasing diversity of services requires much stronger
collaboration also within the library community, on a national and 
international scale. Bielefeld brings many library managers with 
multiple experiences and backgrounds from a wide range of countries 
together.

++Service planning is not specific for libraries. Experts will share 
with you ideas and existing concepts from the commercial world, 
including impact analysis and the uses of data warehouses.

++For the first time the Conference has included one slot of parallel 
sessions to address hot topics in the framework of hands-on 
workshops: 1. Archiving, 2. Management Tools and 3. Networking of 
Institutional Repositories.  Project managers from a variety of 
countries will share their very real and practical experiences in 
these areas with you.

***Be with us, when we welcome Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive
of the British Library, to give her keynote.***

The programme, abstracts and the current lists of participants are
available on the conference website at:
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/. You are cordially invited to
register online or through fax (+49-521-106-4052). 

On behalf of the Programme Committee
Norbert Lossau


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Programme Committee:
Norbert Lossau,
Library Director, CIO Scholarly Information, Bielefeld University
Ronald Milne,
Acting Director, Oxford University Library Services and Bodley's
Librarian, UK
Hans Geleijnse,
Director Library / IT-Services, CIO, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
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