*APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING* The CHILDE partners are pleased to announce that the full programme for the "Opening the Portal" conference is now available. To book your place please contact me, either by return or through the CHILDE website (www.bookchilde.org) Opening the Portal: A conference to establish a European Network of historical children’s book collections Friday 19th October 2001 9:30 Coffee 9:45 Welcome from Mike Ryan, CHILDE Project Manager 9:50 Under suspicion - Nineteenth Century Fairy Tale Debates in England and Germany Dr Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff Institut fur Jugendbuchforschung, Frankfurt 10:30 Coffee 10:45 Rewarding Reads: Some thoughts about the gift books featured in historic book collections Prof. Kimberley Reynolds National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, UK 11:30 Collecting for the future - the policies and practicalities of creating a major children's book collection Elizabeth Hammill Centre for the Children’s Book, UK 12:15 Lunch 13:45 WORKSHOPS (45 minutes each) - N.B. all delegates will have an opportunity to attend both of these workshops, as each will be run twice. A) Capturing the past - Practical digitisation techniques and strategies Simon Tanner Higher Education Digitisation Service, UK B)A guide to gaining European funding Claire Herbert Buckinghamshire County Council, UK 15:15 Tea 15:45 The Next Step: Creating a European Network – a discussion forum led by the CHILDE partners 16:30 Close Esther Esther Gregory CHILDE Project Co-ordinator www.bookchilde.org _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp