Closing Day at ACURIL XXXVIII JAMAICA

FRIDAY 6TH JUNE 2008
ACURIL XXXVIII JAMAICA
e-Librarian: Ideas, Innovation and Inspiration

EXHIBITIONS OPEN – 9:00AM – 3:00PM – PRE-FUNCTION ROOM
(Upstairs and Downstairs)
INTERNET CAFE – 9:00AM – 3:00PM – NEGRIL ROOM

8:00AM – 12 NOON
External Lobby Registration

9:00AM – 10:30AM
Rose Hall Ballroom

2ND ACURIL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Chair: Adele Merritt Bernard, ACURIL President

Agenda

1. Welcome and Opening Remarks
2. Reports of Standing Committees

2.1 Constitution and By-Laws
2.2 Publications and Public Relations
2.3 Finance
2.4 Membership
2.5 Continuing Education

3. Reports of Special Interest Groups

3.1 Academic Libraries
3.2 Archives and Records Management
3.3 Information Technology
3.4 National and Public Libraries
3.5 Research in the Information Field
3.6 School Libraries
3.7 Special Libraries
3.8 Students Roundtable

4. Reports of the Content Area Groups

4.1 Agriculture and Environment
4.2 Book Trade
4.3 Education and Social Sciences
4.4 Health, Medicine and Natural Science
4.5 Knowledge Management

4.6 Law

5. Report of Elections by Scrutiny Committee
6. Resolutions
7. Any Other Business

COFFEE BREAK 10:30AM – 11:00AM

11:00AM – 12:30PM
Rose Hall Ballroom

Preserving the national audiovisual heritage: AVIN, AVIDA and the Bennett/Coverley Collection of the National Library of Jamaica, Frances Salmon, UWI, Mona, Jamaica and Maureen Webster-Prince, National Library of Jamaica, Jamaica

MODERATOR: Valerie Francis (Jamaica)
RAPPORTEUR: Karen Lequay (Barbados)

Falmouth Room

Workshop: Web 2.0 Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University, USA

MODERATOR: Jane Smith (Surinam)
RAPPORTEUR: Angelique Alleyne (Jamaica)

Trelawny Room
CDS ISIS Workshop, PART IV Guilda Asencio, Consultant, Venezuela

MODERATOR: To be selected from participants on the floor.
RAPPORTEUR: To be selected from participants on the floor.

Port Antonio Room
Workshop: Developing a copyright policy for your library, Jacqueline Lynch Stewart, Bob Marley Foundation

MODERATOR: Pedro Padilla-Rosa (Puerto Rico)
RAPPORTEUR: Yulande Lindsay (Jamaica)

Cornwall/Mount Zion Rooms

Records Management within the E-Government Environment in Jamaican Organizations, Special Libraries Section, Library and Information Association of Jamaica, Claudette Thomas, Presenter

MODERATOR: Joanne Georges (Trinidad)
RAPPORTEUR: Matthew Blake (Jamaica)

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

2:00PM – 3:30PM
Rose Hall Ballroom

Examining Patron Behaviour: Maximising the Use of Electronic Resources at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Myrna Douglas and Maureen Kerr Campbell, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

MODERATOR: David Drydale (Jamaica)
RAPPORTEUR: Kumaree Ramtahal (Trinidad and Tobago)

Cornwall/Mount Zion Rooms
The Use of new communication technologies as tools to develop a model that will increase awareness of information literacy skills in a public library, Juan A. López-Cortés, Citrus Ridge County Library, Florida, USA

MODERATOR: Rosella McCarthy Spencer (Jamaica)
RAPPORTEUR: Audrey Saddler (Jamaica)

Trelawny Room
CDS ISIS Workshop. Part V, Guilda Asencio, Consultant, Venezuela

MODERATOR: To be selected from participants on the floor.
RAPPORTEUR: To be selected from participants on the floor.
* Note – Workshop will end at 4:00PM

Port Antonio Room

Putting the e in Oral History: Creating and Accessing Oral Histories at the University of South Florida Libraries, Mark I. Greenberg and Richard R. Bernardy Jr., University of South Florida Libraries, Florida, USA (Paper and Workshop)

MODERATOR: Nicole Coke (Jamaica)
RAPPORTEUR: Lorraine Nero (Trinidad and Tobago)

Falmouth Room

Workshop: Organization and Retrieval of Information, Kisha Sawyers, Caribbean Child Development Centre, University of the West Indies, Mona

MODERATOR: Jane Smith (Suriname)
RAPPORTEUR: To be selected from participants on the floor.

7:30PM – 11:30PM

Rose Hall Ballroom
Closing Ceremony and ACURILEAN Evening of Awards Banquet