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PROGRAM FOR THE CONFERENCE ON
LIBRARY AUTOMATION
Warsaw, October 16-18, 1997
Latest Revision: December 27, 1996
Thursday, October 16
8:30 am - 9:00 amWelcome and Opening Remarks
Adam Manikowski
Richard E. Quandt
9:00 am - 11:00 amLibrary Policy Issues, Session I
Chair: Ewa Krysiak
Christine Borgman and N. Caidi, “Developing National
Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content vs. Conduit Debate”
Adam Manikowski, “Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in
Poland”
Béla Máder, “Automation and Academic libraries in Hungary”
Jela Steinerova, “Libraries of Central Europe: Basic Paradoxes”
11:00 am - 11:30 amCoffee break
11:30 am - 1:00 pmCase Studies: Session I
Chair:Bohdana Stoklasova
Peter Burnett, “Assessment of the Regional Library Program”
Martin Svoboda, Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility,
Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN”
Jadwiga Sadowska, “Automation in the Polish National Library:
From an In-House System to INNOPAC”
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmLunch
2:30 pm - 4:30 pmLibrary Policy issues, Session II
Chair: Christine Borgman
Tibor Csik, Katalin Varga, “Knowledge and Information
Processing”
Jurand Czerminski, “A Coordinator’s View of State Policy
for Funding Libraries in Transition”
Vojtek Balik, CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library,
and Government Policy on Information and Libraries
Krzysztof Zamorski, “The Change in the Functions of University
Libraries and Educational Policy in Poland After 1989”
4:30 pm - 4:45 pmCoffee break
4:45 pm - 6:15 pmRetrospective Conversion
Chair: Krzysztof Zamorski
Olga Gomba, “Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen”
Bohdana Stoklasova, “Cataloguing Standards and Retrospective
Conversion”
Ewa Paluszkiewicz, “Retroconversion of the Catalogue in the
Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw
University”
6:45 pm - 8:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmMaria Sliwinska, “Dynix/Horizon Issues”
7:45 pm - 8:00 pmJadwiga Sadowska, “INNOPAC Issues”
Friday, October 17
8:30 am - 10:00 amManagement Issues
Chair: Iva Pribramska
Ewa Dobrzynska-Lankosz, “The Kraków Library Group---
Problems of Management”
Miklós Fogarassy, “The Special Role of the Hungarian National
Library in Forming and Managing Consortia”
Andrew Lass, “Managing Delay: The Micropolitics of Time in the
Czech and Slovak Library Automation Projects”
10:00 am - 10:30 amCoffee break
10:30 am - 12:30pmCase Studies, Session II
Chair: Peter Gyüre
Zuzana Repisova, “Implementation of an Automated System
at the University Library in Bratislava”
Iva Pribramska, “Localization of ALEPH and its Implementation
in the Czech National Library”
Darina Kozuchova and Lubomira Soltesova, “Problems of Library
Automation: Institutional, Consortial, and National”
Daniela Slizova, Igor Prokop, Milan Rakus, “Impact of CASLIN
on Library Automation in Slovakia”
12:30 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
2:00 pm - 4:00 pmHuman Resource Aspects
Chair: Jela Steinerova
Robert Hayes, “Staffing Patterns in Libraries in Central and
Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS”
Maria Sliwinska, “Staff Preparation and Automation”
Ewa Krysiak, “Interactions Between Library Automation and
Staff and Patron Training”
Márta Virágos, “Human Aspects of Library Automation”
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmCoffee break
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmTechnical Considerations, Session I
Chair: Béla Máder
Blazej Feret, “Union Catalogues: Different Library Systems,
Different Solutions”
Anna Paluszkiewicz, “Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland”
M.Gorny, Andrzej Nikisch, Bogdan Maruszewski, “In Search of
Optimum Structure”
6:30 pm- 7:30 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmGrzegorz Nowak, “VTLS Issues”
7:45 pm - 8:00 pmAndrew Lass:“ALEPH Issues”
Saturday, October 18
8:00 am - 9:00 amTour of the National Library (optional; for interested participants)
9:00 am - 10:30 amSpecial Collections
Chair: Adam Manikowski
Adolf Knoll, “Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials
as Electronic Documents”
Géza Bakonyi, “Special Collections, Special Databases in
University Libraries”
Joanna Pasztaleniec-Jarzynska, “Special Collections Automation---
General issues
10:30am - 11:00 amCoffee break
11:00am - 12:00 noonService issues
Chair: Henryk Hollender
Judith Skalicki, Éva Zalai-Kovács,“The Contribution of
Integrated Library Services to Assuring Quality Services”
Peter Gyüre, “Integrating Internet Resources into the Library
Catalogue”
12:00 noon - 1:00 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmTechnical Issues, Session II
Chair: Adolf Knoll
Klára Koltay, “Why and How to Translate a Subject Heading
System: Authority Control Provides a Solution”
Henryk Hollender, “Sequencing of Automation in East European
Research Libraries”
2:30 pm - 2:45 pmCoffee break
2:45pm - 4:00 pmConcluding Comments
Christine Borgman, Robert Hayes, Andrew Lass, Richard Quandt