European Library Automation Group
ELAG 2007
Barcelona (Spain), 9-11 May 2007
http://elag2007.upf.edu/
  
  
  

This is the yearly ELAG Conference and the theme of this year is "Library 2.0". The main topics that will be presented at the conference are:

• Building a library system for Catalonia / L. Anglada
   
• Open access institutional repositories: the case study of Spain / R. Melero
   
• E-journal usage studies at Catalan academic libraries / Àngel Borrego, M. Barrios, C. Ollé and C. Urbano 
     
• Moving towards a service-oriented architecture / Erlend Gutteberg
   
• Electronic publishing and institutional archives: utilising open-source software / Ellen Røyneberg 
   
• Amazon: competition or complement to OPACs / Maja Žumer
    
• Accessing library material via google and other websites / Janifer Gatenby
   
• RDA (Resource Description and Access) / G. Dunsire 
   
• A futuristic view of knowledge and information management / Sue Mcnight
   
• The DELOS reference model for digital libraries / V. Casarosa
    
• OAI object re-use and exchange: Moving interoperability from the metadata to the resource level / Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library)
    

As usual, during the conference there will be a number of workshops on the following issues:

1. Google, Amazon and libraries / T. Sadeh
    
2. Social tagging/indexing (User participation) / J. Hoppenbrouwers 
    
3. Blogs, Wikis… / Ramon Ros
      
4. Resource delivery / J. Gatenby 
     
5. Library 2.0: what is in a name? / O. Husby 
    
6. A prototype of a Digital Library Management System / V. Casarosa and H. Schuldt 
    
7. Preservation of digital content / C. Van Wijk, E. Bermes, S. Ross
    
8. Quality Search and Result through Subject Search Engines / M. Wesseling
    
9. E-learning and its effects on libraries / L. Tedd
     
10. Open-source software: pros and cons / T. Zargaryan 
      
      

DELOS will deliver a presentation and is responsible for the coordination of Workshop 6 on "A prototype of a Digital Library Management System".