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AMICAL Meeting 2005: Program

All meetings will be held in Conference Rooms A, B & C, Irwin Hall Building, LAU Beirut.

 

*Agenda items are subject to change

 

Meeting Schedule: AMICAL Meeting #2
Lebanese American University

June 1-3, 2005

Wednesday June 1, 2005
9:00 am – 9:30 am Welcome Desk/Registration opens
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break (sponsored by Logos)
10:30 am – 12:00 noon Lecture: Role of Libraries in Information Literacy
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Lecture: Resource Sharing: Current and Future Trends
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break (sponsored by Logos)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Working Groups: Assignments
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Visit the New LAU Library
6:00 pm - End of sessions
8:00 pm - Dinner (sponsored by )

Thursday June 2, 2005
9:00 am – 12:00 noon

Discussion Groups Meetings:

  1. E-books :  Budgetary and collection development issues
  2. Professional development issues
  3. Resource sharing including ILL/DDS and electronic resources: Draft a common intellectual policy for resource sharing
  4. OPAC: Draft a plan for creating a Union Catalog
  5. Information Literacy

Note: Coffee will be available throughout the morning

(Sponsored by Levant)
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Lunch Break (Sponsored by Levant)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Plenary session: Action plans/Projects resulting from the discussion Groups
3:00  pm – 5:00 pm

Visit to the American University of Beirut Campus and Library

Reception offered by AUB
5:00 pm End of sessions – Dinner on your own

Friday June 3, 2005
9:00 am – 11:00 am

Elsevier Demo

Discussion session: Elsevier Consortium Package
11:00 am – 12:00 noon Break (sponsored by Thomson Gale)
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm

Travel to LAU Byblos Campus

Visit LAU Campus and Library
3:30 pm -

Tour the City of Byblos

Dinner (sponsored by )