Presentations and Papers
Friday 12 August
Opening Session
Welcome addresses - Presentation of the programme and objectives of the day
- Maria del Mar Ortiz-Rivera, Esq. – Executive Director - Office of Legislative Services, Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
- Mr. Carlos René Rodríguez, Head Librarian - Tomas Bonilla Feliciano Legislative Library
- Moira Fraser, Chair, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Legislative Library of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
Chair: Mr. Carlos René Rodríguez, Head Librarian, Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
- An overview of the Legislative Library of Puerto Rico: Juan Carlos Ortega and Ivonne Quintero, Librarians
- The Legislative Processing Unit (Legislative Process Query System): Iraida Carrero
- The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico: Dr. Luis González-Vales - State Historian
IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments : Section Pre-conference Presentations on the theme of Responding to Parliament's needs
Chair: Esther Kamau, Chief Librarian, Parliament of Kenya
- Experiences in the implementation of a congressional advisory service - Guido Williams, Head of the Legal Research Group, Chilean Library of Congress, Chile (Presentation)
- New Science and Technology Research Project of the National Diet Library, Japan - Junko Hirose, Director, Overseas Legislative Information Division, Research & Legislative Reference Bureau, National Diet Library, Japan (Presentation)
- Analysis of the information needs of Parliamentarians: a study of Cross River State House of Assembly, Nigeria - Dr Eno Ottong, University of Calabar, Nigeria
- Understanding the Needs and Improving Our Service: the National Library of China Experience in serving the National People’s Congress - Ms. Lu Haiyan, Legislative Service Department, National Library of China, Beijing
- UK House of Commons: Services for Members around the 2010 General Election - Chris Rhodes, Researcher, House of Commons Library
Networking and cooperation, with a particular focus on reports from regions who have made considerable progress in strengthening their networks
Chair : Raissa Teodori, Secretary, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- AFRICA : APKN - Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network
- ASIA-PACIFIC: APLAP - Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Asia and the Pacific; APLA - Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Australasia
- LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN : RIPALC - Red de Intercambio de los Parlamentos de América Latina y El Caribe
- EUROPE: NORDIC COUNTRIES
- NORTH AMERICA APLIC
Cooperation between the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament and IFLA - Gherardo Casini, Head, Office in Rome, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Sunday 14 August 2011
IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section - Open program session within the IFLA WLIC Congress
Innovative approaches to delivering information products and services to Parliaments and citizens
Chair: Sonia L'Heureux, Assistant Parliamentary Librarian, Library of Parliament, Canada
- The collection development policy of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies: adaptations of the Conspectusmethodology - Elzuila Maria Bastos, Center for Documentation and Information, Chamber of Deputies - Brazil
- E-skills for progressive governance: supporting evidence informed policy making in African Parliaments - Ronald Munatsi, Principal Librarian, Zimbabwe Parliamentary Library
- The value of meta-tagging in document repositories to support flexible publishing in a digital form – Patricio Pastor, Chilean Library of Congress, Chile [Presentation]
- The Law Library of Congress concept for a "One World Law Library" - Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress, USA [Presentation]
- The missing link: using subject taxonomy as a backbone for innovative products and services - Lynn Brodie, Director General, Information and Document Resources Service at the Library of Parliament, Canada [Presentation]
- Digitization as a means of preservation: A case for the Digital Parliamentary library of Iran - Azadeh Heidari and Mahdi Karimian Sichani, Department of Library and Information Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Monday 15 August 2011
Management Workshop
Moderator, Ellie Valentine, Project Director, Parliamentary Development Project II for Ukraïne.
- Meeting the legislative information needs of curious and concerned citizens – led by Cynthia Jordan, Law Library of Congress
- Did you check your facts? An assessment of responses to reference and research questions from parliamentarians. – led by Sonia L’Heureux, Library of Parliament of Canada
- Communicating parliamentary history to the public – led by Andrzej Dziubecki, Senate Library , Poland
- Inductions for newly elected members of Parliament – led by Chris Rhodes, House of Commons Library, UK
- Managing budgets in a time of economic constraint – led by Lillian Gassie, Congressional Research Service, USA
Summary of Management sessions and concluding remarks
- Maria del Mar Ortiz-Rivera, Esq. – Executive Director - Legislative Services, Office, Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
- Gherardo Casini, Head, Office in Rome, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Moira Fraser, Chair, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
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