PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT &
CALL FOR PAPERS
Libraries Without Walls 3
The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users
An international conference organised by CERLIM -
The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management
Rhodes, Greece
September 1999
Lifelong learning is becoming a reality throughout the world,
requiring that learning opportunities be delivered to all citizens in
their locality, at work or at home, and resulting in the
restructuring of higher education. Libraries will be called upon to
find innovative and imaginative ways to support such learning, and to
treat 'distant' learners on an equal footing with those on-campus.
'Libraries without Walls' conferences address this important
theme.
The first two conferences, held in Greece in 1995 and 1997, were
highly successful. They brought together speakers from the UK,
Australia, Europe and the USA who addressed the principal strategic
issues, based on international, regional and cross-sectoral
approaches, arising from the provision of library services to distant
users.
For the 1999 Conference contributions (full papers or short
presentations) are invited around the following themes:
Lifelong learning
Integrating services to provide the distributed virtual
library
Regional library provision through networking
Social and human issues of distributed library services
Supporting open and distance learning
Co-operation between libraries of different types
Standards issues
Delivering library services to the home and workplace
Staff training in distributed libraries
Presentations may take the form of full papers (45 mins) or workshop
presentations (20 mins). To be considered, an abstract (between 400
and 800 words) must be submitted, together with a 50 word
biographical statement, to the address below by 1st March 1999. All
submissions will be considered by an eminent, international editorial
board. Applicants will be informed whether their submissions
have been selected during April 1999. The Proceedings of the
Conference will be published.
To register your interest in this Conference
contact:
Libraries Without Walls 3
Centre for Research in Library & Information Management
(CERLIM)
Department of Information and Communications
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building
Rosamond Street West
Off Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6LL
United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: ++44 (0)161 247 6142
Fax: ++44 (0) 161 247 6351
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