Caribbean projects receive support from IPDC (International Programme for the Development of Communication)

Caribbean projects receive support from IPDC

21-05-2008 (Kingston)

Five projects for the Caribbean were approved at the 52nd meeting of the Bureau of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), which was held from 23 to 25 April 2008 at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.

The five projects approved are:

• Caribbean Internet Radio Portal: Expanding the reach and impact of Community Radio Stations for the Caribbean (regional);
  
  
• Media and the Caribbean Justice System: Increased Regional Media Capacity to Report on the Region’s Justice System (regional);
  
  
• Radio COB: College of the Bahamas (Bahamas);
  
  
• Training Media Professionals in Research and Production of Cultural & Community Oriented Programmes (Guyana); and
  
  
• Training of Journalists in Online Journalism (St. Vincent and the Grenadines).

A call for proposal is now open for the 53rd Bureau meeting in 2009. The deadline for submitting proposals is 31 July 2008. Please visit the IPDC website for more information.

The IPDC is the only multilateral forum in the UN system designed to mobilize the international community to discuss and promote media development in developing countries. The Programme not only provides support for media projects but also seeks to create and strengthen a healthy environment for the growth of free and pluralistic media in developing countries.

52nd meeting of IPDC Bureau: Walter Fust, Wijayananda Jayaweera and Mamadou Koume

© UNESCO

Organization and Retrieval of Information at theCaribbean Child Development Centre, University of the West Indies, Open Campus

Iksha Sawyers, at the Caribbean Child Development Centre, of the University of the West Indies. Open Campus, will present this poster session.

The Caribbean Child Development Centre is a member of the Consortium for Social Development and Research, of the University of the West Indies, Open campus, with a mandate related to children and child development.

Located on the Mona Campus, our vision is to be the premiere Caribbean academic centre dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for our children. Our mission is to provide support for holistic development for Caribbean children through collaborative research to inform policy and program development, information management and dissemination, training and public service and advocacy.

The CCDC documentation centre caters to the information needs of users primarily through technology and informational services. Our main aim is to provide current material and quality service to all users who need information on children and families, especially users within Jamaica and the Caribbean. These users include students at the primary, secondary and tertiary (including post-graduate) levels, teachers, researchers, the NGO community, parents and practitioners. We also aim to support programmes offered by the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies and other related institutions.

Most of our documentation is electronically based. An important part of our documentation work includes the digitization and provision of material for access on the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Children’s Institute database http://iin.oea.org/search/advqueryopd.asp.

This hemispheric Institute, based in Uruguay, collects and disseminates documentation, project and programme information across the Americas. The CCDC Documentation Centre is the centre for these databases in the Caribbean. We facilitate training for other libraries in the use of these databases, receive updates from the IIN and provide information for the Caribbean region.

Our other internet-based resources include:

• The Caribbean Child Development Centre’s (CCDC) website http://uwi.edu/ccdc/index.htm

• The Caribbean Early Childhood Development (CaribECD) webpage
http://www.uwi.edu/uwioutreach/caribecd/default.aspx which allows organizations and individuals in the field to build partnership, share ideas and work together in child related issues,

• CCDC Bibliographic Database http://ccdcresearch.mona.uwi.edu/reference, a comprehensive database on child-related issues,

• CCDC’s Violence Prevention Programmes database
http://ccdcresearch.mona.uwi.edu/programme/ which highlights violence prevention programmes for children in Jamaica,

• HIV Intervention Programmes Database. http://ccdcresearch.mona.uwi.edu/hivprogramme/ which identifies programmes in Jamaica which focuses on care of children with HIV (healthcare service and support services).

These resources allow research carried out in Jamaica and the Caribbean to be represented internationally and in the region, and increase the visibility of Jamaican and Caribbean research for the wider community.

Overall goal:

• To increase the currency, dissemination and utilization of the databases for children.
• To increase the exposure of our materials and databases for the young people of Jamaica.
• To increase the dissemination of the findings from the databases regionally and internationally.
• To increase the utilization of the database

There will be two - three (2-3) posters highlighting databases, showing findings from each study and database relevance to clientele.

Social Networking: embracing new technologies to transform library

Devika Ramsingh, Librarian, at the Republic Bank Library, and Kumaree Ramtahal, Librarian II, of the, of the Main Library, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, will present this poster session.

The concept of social networking has been used in libraries and universities for many years; however the term is relatively new and popular due to the emerging technology. In order to keep abreast with meeting the needs of patrons, libraries are challenged to adopt the popular elements of the digital age.

The world’s top three social networking environments, MySpace, You Tube and Facebook attracted more than 350 million users according to comScore in June 2007.1 The length of stay online ranged from one hour to four hours. These statistics clearly highlight the fact that the new communication tools of email, instant messenger and social networking are fading the line between the online and offline world as more and more users are daily attracted to social networking environments.

Social networking and Web 2.0 technologies provide the opportunity for an interactive Web community, thus enabling an environment for knowledge sharing and learning. Also, these tools facilitate the breakdown of communication barriers created by distance and cost.

The phenomenon of social networking will one day, no doubt, become as common and widely used as email is today. Because of its current popularity however, social networking presents itself as a viable option for libraries and librarians to join the Web 2.0 movement and build interactive web communities.

This poster session seeks to introduce the concept of Social Networking and highlight some of the popular technologies that are being used in this Web 2.0 era. It will also present some of the websites that have been developed, using these tools, by Caribbean and international librarians. Moreover, it will explore how the information contained in these websites can benefit libraries, librarians and researchers in keeping abreast with current issues in librarianship and new technologies.

February 2008

Notes
Libraries and social Networking: the thoughts of nine experts about our increasingly online lives, NextSpace the OCLC Newsletter No. 7, September 2007 (Available online at http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/007/1.htm - accessed on 13/02/08)

For more information, kindly contact: d.ramsingh@gsb.tt or devikaramsingh@gmail.com

The e-librarian: Competencies for the new millennium and beyond

Audrey M. Saddler and Maureen Keer-Campbell, from Jamaica, will be presenting this poster session at ACURIL XXXVIII.

Information technology has brought a lot of changes not only to library and information services but also to the roles and expectation of the librarian and information professional. A new information environment has been created, spurred by the internet, which requires new skills in seeking, processing and using information.

Most librarians are actively engaged with information technology in their libraries whether through Integrated Library systems, the provision of access to electronic resources, and participation in social networks. Librarians are required to be proactive, liaising with information technology specialists and system designers to design and evaluate systems for information access that meets the needs of users.

Librarians must therefore equip themselves with the necessary tools either through formal or informal channels to use the technology proficiently. Librarians must become risk takers with the propensity to be flexible; learn quickly and constantly; enable and foster change and work independently.

In highlighting the competencies, of the e-librarian, current online advertisements for professional librarians have been used as the base from which to pull desired technical and behavioural characteristics.

The poster will highlight the following:

• The traditional versus the e-librarian
• Core competencies of the e-librarian
• The systems librarian (e-librarian specialist)
• The infusion of technology related courses in Library schools
• Continuing education opportunities

ACURIL 2008 Conference Website. Visit ACURILNET http://acuril.uprrp.edu

The company which hosts the National Library of Jamaica website has been experiencing problems with their servers since last Friday, May 8, and interested persons in knowing about the conference have been unable to access the ACURIL 2008 Conference website.

If colleagues and friends are interested in finding information about the ACURIL 2008 Conference, kindly refer them to ACURILNET (ACURIL's website) http://acuril.uprrp.edu or visit Cybernotes Blog http://cibernotasacurilcybernotes.blogspot.com

Should colleagues and friends need assistance of any kind regarding the conference, kindly refer them to contact the Co-Chairs of the Local Organising Committee for assistance:

Hermine Salmon hsalmon@utech.edu.jm
(tel 876.702.4881; Fax 876-927-1617), or

Karen Barton jamlibs3@yahoo.com
(Tel 876-906-4396 ; Fax 876-926-2188).

It will be our pleasure to greet you all in Montego Bay.

Adele Merritt Bernard
ACURIL President
acuril38jm@yahoo.com
adelemb@gmail.com

The Internet, Social Networking and Information Literacy: Issues and Challenges for Caribbean libraries

Fay Durrant, Professor; Mark-Shane Scale, Librarian; Barbara Gordon, Lecturer; Dr Cherrell Shelley-Robinson, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Library and Information Studies, of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, will present this panel discussion on Monday, June 2, 200, at Room 1, Rose-Hall Resort, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The abstract of each presentation follows:

Online Social Networking and Libraries, by Prof. Fay Durrant

Online social networking sites have made significant advances in the development of virtual communities. With their origins in listservs, egroups, blogs, chat rooms and instant messaging, social networking sites provide opportunities for users to construct public or semi-public profiles, to link to “friends” across the globe and to create content.
The presentation will examine participation of Jamaican and Caribbean people in some social networking sites, conditions under which information is created and shared, factors influencing membership and participation, issues of privacy and protection, and applications being used by libraries.

Libraries, Facebook and the Information Age, by Mark-Shane Scale

Facebook is one of these most successful online social networking sites. It is reported to have over 61 million active users. If these statistics are valid, then Facebook should have many lessons to provide for libraries and media houses in expanding and retaining a large client base. This discussion will trace how Facebook developed, examine the philosophy of its founder, and some of the factors underlying its successes. The discussion will also focus on how Facebook attracts users, the content the site provides and some lessons from this information venture that are useful for libraries.

Within Facebook’s success and development, there are underlying assumptions as to what information scientists and professionals can expect of people’s information needs. It is hoped that this discussion will unearth some of these assumptions to inform the profession’s development of interactive services.

Managing Internet Access in Jamaican School Libraries, by Barbara A. Gordon

School libraries offering Internet access services help to lessen the “Digital Divide” both within and between countries and make a significant contribution to the acquisition of information technology skills by citizens. Access to the Internet and to social networking sites is increasingly available in Jamaican school libraries and some important considerations for delivering effective services include managing access to information content on the web, staff and user training and policy development. Suggestions for developing quality-based services include: user education; clearly articulated acceptable use policies developed in consultation with stakeholders; and partnership between school libraries and IT departments in order to maximise scarce resources.

Information Literacy in the Information Age, by Dr. Cherrell Shelley Robinson

The panel presentation will conclude with a presentation on Information literacy, and what it means to the information literate in a social networking environment. Creation of content and social capital, the interaction among “friends” and the posting of personal information require a greater capacity in information literacy than has been the case in the print only world, or in the world of Web 1.0.

ACURIL XXXIII JAMAICA Preliminary Programme (May 7, 2008)

FRIDAY 30TH MAY 2008

8:30AM – 9:25AM
Registration – Pre-Conference Workshops

9:30AM – 4:30PM
Pre-Conference Workshops

Developing Information Literacy Skills and Programmes
Satellite activity co-ordinated by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), Information for All Programme (IFAP), University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Library and Information Studies and University of the West Indies Library, Mona, Jamaica

SATURDAY 31ST MAY 2008

8:30AM – 9:25AM
Registration – Pre-Conference Workshops

9:30AM – 4:30PM
Pre-Conference Workshops

Ride the New Wave – Web 2.0: Interacting with your users in the digital world.
Nicholas Cop, President, Nicholas Cop Consulting.

Organizing Business Records
Sonia Black, Campus Records Manager, UWI, Mona, Jamaica and Joanne Georges, Campus Records Manager, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Developing Information Literacy Skills and Programmes
Satellite activity co-ordinated by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO),Information for All Programme (IFAP), University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Library and Information Studies and University of the West Indies Library, Mona, Jamaica

SUNDAY 1ST June 2008

8:30AM – 9:25AM Registration – Pre-Conference Workshops

8:30AM – 1:00PM I Executive Council Meeting

9:00AM - 4:00PM Pre-Conference Workshops

Ride the New Wave – Web 2.0: Interacting with your users in the digital world.
Nicholas Cop, President, Nicholas Cop Consulting.

Organizing Business Records
Sonia Black, Campus Records Manager, UWI, Mona, Jamaica and Joanne Georges, Campus Records Manager, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Developing Information Literacy Skills and Programmes
Satellite activity co-ordinated by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), Information for All Programme (IFAP), University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Library and Information Studies and University of the West Indies Library, Mona, Jamaica

10:00AM – 4:00PM Registration – 38TH Annual ACURIL Conference

2:00PM – 4:00PM
II OCLC Caribbean Users Meeting
Mr. Antonio Jose Alba, Regional Manager, The Caribbean and Central America

ExLibris User Group Meeting
Loralynne Evans, Marketing Manager, North America

3:00PM – 4:00PM
Resolutions Committee Meeting
Meeting of Moderators & Rapporteurs with Rapporteur General

4:30PM – 5:30PM
Meeting of Vice President with Chairpersons of Special Interest & Content Area Groups
Orientation of New Members and First Time Attendees

7:000PM – 10:00PM Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception

MONDAY 2ND JUNE 2008

8:00AM – 4:30PM Registration

8:00AM – 8:30AM Orientation of New Members and First Time Attendees

9:00AM – 10:30AM
BALLROOM: Inspiring and Engaging our Communities and Users, Stephen Abram, President, Special Libraries Association and Vice President of Innovation, SirsiDynix

COFFEE BREAK 10:30AM – 11:00AM

11:00AM – 12:30PM
BALLROOM: Lists, Catalogues and Portals: Models and Tools for E-Resources Access, Ms. Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services

ROOM 1: Panel Discussion: The Internet, Social Networking and Information Literacy, Fay Durrant, Cherrell Shelley-Robinson, Mark Shane Scale and Barbara Gordon, Department of Library and Information Studies, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

ROOM 2: Workshop - Usability Testing: A User-Centered Approach to Improve Electronic Resource Design, PART 1, Brooke Wooldridge and Marilyn Ochoa dLOC

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

2:00PM – 3:30PM

BALLROOM: Mars and Venus for Information Professionals: are your stakeholders hearing the message you intended to send, Barbie Keiser, Barbie E. Keiser Inc.

ROOM 1: Workshop – Look Ma – No Programming! Cool Tips and Tricks with Mashups, Robin Hastings, Information Technology Manager, Missouri River Regional Library,USA

ROOM 2: Workshop - Usability Testing: A User-Centered Approach to Improve Electronic Resource Design, PART 2, Brooke Wooldridge and Marilyn Ochoa dLOC

ROOM 3: Workshop - Wikis & Blogs Basics for ACURIL’s Learning Communities and Communities of Practice, Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Puerto Rico

COFFEE BREAK 3:30PM – 4:00PM

4:00PM – 5:00PM

BALLROOM: Academic Libraries SIG
E-Libraries and the E-Librarian: A Panel Discussion
Presenters: Karen Lequay, University of the West Indies, Main Library, Cave Hill, Barbados. Likely to succeed: profiling the e-librarian/Mark Greenberg, University of South Florida Libraries, USA. Using Podcasting to Promote Hidden Treasures in Special Collections/Ardis Hanson, The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute Research Library, Florida, USA. Virtually Collaborative: Providing Services for Geographically Dispersed Academic Health Services Research Teams

ROOM 1: National and Public Libraries SIG
“Are you being Served?” How well are public and national libraries in the Caribbean meeting the needs of the blind and the partially sighted? Discussion led by Rosemary Kavanagh, President ERK Consulting Inc

ROOM 2: School Libraries SIG

ROOM 3: Content Area Law Group General Meeting

ROOM 4: Research in the Information Field SIG and Student’s Roundtable
Podcasts of Information Professionals in the Caribbean: Learning , Doing Preserving and Facilitating Access to All, a seminar-workshop, Part I. Master students Yadira Avendaño-Avendaño, Arelys Fernández-Troche, Cindy Jiménez-Vera, Yumarys Polanco-Almonte, and Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Coordinator of the Caribbeana Project, Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico. First Session.

ROOM 5: Archives and Records Management

ROOM 6: Special Libraries SIG

5:00PM – 5:30PM TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION UPDATES

7:00PM Social Activity

TUESDAY 3RD JUNE 2008

POSTER PRESENTATIONS – ALL DAY

8:00AM – 4:30PM Registration

8:00AM – 9:00AM Conference Room: Meeting of Past Presidents

9:00AM – 10:30AM
BALLROOM: Panel Discussion on Copyright Issues in the Digital Environment. Isidro Aballi-Fernandez, Unesco; Karen Lequay, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Michael Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission, USA, Phillipa Davies, Jamaica Intellectual Property Office

COFFEE BREAK 10:30PM – 11:00PM

11:00AM – 12:30PM
BALLROOM 1st ACURIL General Assembly. Chair: Adele Merritt Bernard, ACURIL President

Agenda
1. Welcome and Opening Remarks
2. Minutes of ACURIL XXXVII
3. Reports
3.1 President
3.2 Executive Director
3.3 Treasurer
3.4 Vice-President
3.4.1 Permanent Committees
3.4.2 Special Interest Groups
3.4.3 Nominations
4. Any Other Business

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

2:00PM – 3:30PM

BALLROOM: Developing a Culture Conducive to E-Library Development-Challenges and Issues from a Bahamian Perspective, Elsie Bain and Berthamae Walker, College of the Bahamas

ROOM 1: E-librarian: Redefining the roles and challenges in academic libraries in the Caribbean, Dorothy Palmer, UWI (Mona, Jamaica).

ROOM 2: Collaborating in the Cloud – Using Web 2.o Tools To Get Stuff Done, Robin Hastings, Information Technology Manager, Missouri River Regional Library, USA

ROOM 3: eBooks for eService – A Tool for Libraries to Stay Relevant, Pauline Nicholas and Thelma White, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

ROOM 4: The e-environment: Changing the face of Libraries, A Case Study of the Calvin McKain Library, Audrey Saddler, UTECH, Jamaica

ROOM 5: The Jamaican Legal System and Jamaican Legal Resources, Jeanne O. Slowe, Assistant Librarian, Norman Manley Law School and Winsome Henry, Senior Resident Magistrate, Parish of St. James, Jamaica

COFFEE BREAK 3:30PM – 4:00PM

4:00PM – 5:00PM
BALLROOM:

ROOM 1: Second Life and you Library – developing services in the virtual world Integrated SWETS Wise, SWETS

ROOM 2: Podcasts of Information Professionals in the Caribbean: Learning , Doing Preserving and Facilitating Access to All, a seminar-workshop, Part II. Master students Yadira Avendaño-Avendaño, Arelys Fernández-Troche, Cindy Jiménez-Vera, Yumarys Polanco-Almonte, and Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Coordinator of the Caribbeana Project, Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico.

ROOM 3: Handling Information Overload with Productivity Tools, Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University, USA

5:00PM – 5:30PM TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION UPDATES

7:00PM – 10:00PM Nice up Yuhself! – A Celebration of Jamaica Culture

WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE 2008

POSTER PRESENTATIONS – ALL DAY

8:00AM – 4:30PM
Registration

9:00AM – 10:30AM

BALLROOM: E-librarian Evolution: Practical and Successful Approaches to Learning Web 2.0, Carrie Gits, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA

9:00AM – 4:00PM
ROOM 1: IFLA/FAIFE Workshop, Loida Garcia-Febo, Assistant Coordinator, Special Services, Queen’s Library, New York, USA and Barbara J. Ford, Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programmes

COFFEE BREAK 10:30AM – 11:00AM

11:00AM – 12:30PM
BALLROOM: Participating in the Creative Commons, Michael Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission, USA

ROOM 2: CDS ISIS Workshop, Part I Guilda Ascencio,

ROOM 3: Information Literacy as the Driving Engine for Economic Success, Barbie Keiser, Barbie E. Keiser Inc.

ROOM 4: Combating Plagiarism: Beyond Information Literacy Skills Instruction, Myrtle Harris, School of Education, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

ROOM 5: Information Literacy through E-Learning: a case study of OPAC Training to undergraduate students at the UWI, Mona, Verna George and Karlene Robinson, Mona Information Literacy Unit, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

12:30PM
Deadline to submit nominations from the Floor to the Executive Council. Contact the Executive Director, Oneida R. Ortiz, at the ACURIL Booth.

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

(DLIS ALUMINI LUNCHEON MEETING)

2:00PM – 3:30PM

ROOM 2: CDS ISIS Workshop, Part II Guilda Ascencio

BALLROOM Health and Medicine Content Area Group
SANITAS’s Ideas, Innovation and Inspiration: A project for the Development of a tool for the organization of Information in Public Health in the Caribbean. PART 1. Carmen Santos-Corrada, Chair, Medical Sciences Conrado Asenjo Library, University of Puerto Rico

The Changing Face of ACURILNET: The Basics of Content Management with the Use of Joomla. Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Yumarys Polanco Almonte and Edgar Jimenez-Ferrer, ACURIL's Web Team /Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Puerto Rico

ROOM 4: Law Content Area Group:
Caribbean Law Libraries, Library Collections, Resource Sharing and Use Policies, Miriam Michel, UNIBE, Dominican Republic

ROOM 5: Organization and the Retrieval of Knowledge Content Area Group

ROOM 6: Agriculture Content Area Group

ROOM 7: Information Technology SIG

COFFEE BREAK 3:30PM – 4:00PM

4:00PM – 5:00PM
BALLROOM: Strategies for developing, delivering and sustaining e-resources and e-library services to people unable to read print in the Caribbean, Winsome Hudson, National Library of Jamaica and Rosemary Kavanagh, ERK Consulting Inc.

ROOM 2: CDS ISIS Workshop, Part III Guilda Ascencio

ROOM 3: Workshop - Creating Your Own Learning 2.0 Based Program – The Fundamentals, Carrie Gits, Nova Southeastern University, Florida

ROOM 4: Successfully Automate Your Library in 10 Easy Steps – The Experience of the University of Trinidad & Tobago, Dave Stephens, COMPanion Corporation and Diana Madoo, University of Trinidad and Tobago

ROOM 5: Synchronous states: a live demonstration of synchronous technologies in an e-environment, John Fracasso and Catherine Johnson, University of Western Ontario

5:00PM – 5:30PM TECHONOLOGY UPDATES

7:00 – 9:00PM Social Activity

THURDAY 5TH JUNE 2008

POSTER PRESENTATIONS – ALL DAY

8:00AM – 12 NOON Registration

9:00AM – 4:00PM
ROOM 1: IFLA/FAIFE Workshop, Loida Garcia-Febo, Assistant Coordinator, Special Services, Queen’s Library, New York, USA and Barbara J. Ford, Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programmes

9:00AM – 10:30AM
BALLROOM: Innovation Begins with “I’, Tony Tallent, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

10:30AM – 12 NOON
Elections to the Executive Council

COFFEE BREAK 10:30PM – 11:00PM

11:00AM – 12:30PM
BALLROOM: Libraries: Innovative and Inspiring, Erik Boekesteijn and Jaap van de Geer, Delft Public Library, Netherlands

ROOM 2: dLOC Digitization Toolkit – develop your own digital resources, Mark Sullivan, University of Florida, USA

ROOM 3: E-Challenges and Initiatives at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Libraries, Arlene Dolabaille and Mariella Pilgrim, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad

ROOM 4: The Changing Face of Serials Collections: the case of the University of the West Indies Library, Mona, Evadne McLean, Margarette Pearce, Judith Rao, UWI, Mona, Jamaica

ROOM 5: Energize your Catalogue: the Aquabrowser Experience of Northern Caribbean University Grace Carr-Benjamin, Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica and Luis Cabrera, RR Bowker

ROOM 6: Exploring Virtual Reference: a new horizon for Caribbean Libraries, Kumaree Ramtahal, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Devika Ramsingh, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

2:00PM – 3:00PM
BALLROOM Academic Libraries SIG

ROOM 1: National and Public Libraries SIG

ROOM 2: School Libraries SIG

ROOM 3: Special Libraries SIG

ROOM 4: Research in the Information Field SIG and Student’s Roundtable
Podcasts of Information Professionals in the Caribbean: Learning , Doing Preserving and Facilitating Access to All, a seminar-workshop, Part III. Master Students Yadira Avendaño-Avendaño, Arelys Fernández-Troche, Cindy Jiménez-Vera, Yumarys Polanco-Almonte, and Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Coordinator of the Caribbeana Project, Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico.

ROOM 5: Archives and Records Management SIG

3:00PM – ONWARDS

FREE AFTERNOON and EVENING

FRIDAY 6TH JUNE 2008

8:00AM – 9:00AM Registration

9:00AM – 10:30AM BALLROOM: 2ND ACURIL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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
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

ROOM 1: WORKSHOP: Web 2.0m Cliff Landis, Valdosta State University, USA

ROOM 2: CDS ISIS Workshop, Part IV Guilda Asencio

ROOM 3: Workshop: Developing a copyright policy for your library, Jacqueline Lynch Stewart, Bob Marley Foundation

ROOM 4: Workshop: Special Libraries Section, Library and Information Association of Jamaica

LUNCH BREAK 12:30PM – 2:00PM

2:00PM – 3:30PM
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

ROOM 1: 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. Lopez, Citrus Ridge County Library, Florida, USA

ROOM 2: CDS ISIS Workshop, Part V Guilda Asencio

ROOM 3: 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)

ROOM 4: WORKSHOP: Organization and Retrieval of Information, Keisha Sawyers, Caribbean Child Development Centre, University of the West Indies, Mona

7:30PM – 11:30PM

Closing Ceremony and ACURILEAN Evening of Awards and Banquet

SATURDAY 7TH JUNE 2008

9:00AM – 12:30AM II Executive Council Meeting