Program

IAALD XITH World Congress/USAIN Biennial Conference
Tentative Schedule of Events



-Breakfast Buffet each day through Wednesday
-Morning and afternoon breaks with the vendors in the exhibit area


Saturday, 5/14 - Preconference activities
Optional Tours for early participants or spouses
IAALD Board Meeting
USAIN Board Meeting
8:30 – 12:00 Preconference: Fundamentals in Digital Preservation: OAIS and the TDR
9:00-5:00 Preconference: Building Digital Library Collections and Services for Libraries in the Developing World
1:30 – 4:00 Preconference: Harvesting Data for the Masses: The Open Archives Initiative Protocol [for]
Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
.

Sunday, 5/15 - Preconference activities
8:00-12:00 Preconference: The Role of Open Access Publishing in Science
9:00-12:00 Income IAALD Board Meeting
1:00-4:30 Preconference: Portals for Science
IAALD Chapters IAALD Interest Group Meetings
6:30-9:00 Evening reception at the Explorium of Lexington

Monday 5/16 - Conference
7:30-8:30 - Breakfast Buffet
8:30-9:00 - Welcome & Introductions:
Carol Diedrichs; Pamela André; Patricia Wilson
9:00-9:45 - Opening Keynote Speaker:
Dick Beahrs
9:45-10:00 - Questions and discussion
10:00-10:30 - Break - Exhibits open at first break and open during all breaks
10:30-11:45 – Role of the Organization in the Digital Age – Peter Ballantyne, INASP; Gerhard Schiefer, INFITA;
Danielle Jacques, CALS; Peter Young, NAL,
11:45 -1:15 - "Introducing
IAALD" Luncheon, Peter Young, NAL
1:15 -2:45 - Concurrent contributed sessions centered around technology (including multiple formats such as symposia, papers, demonstrations, etc.)
2:45-3:15 - Break
3:15-4:45 – Concurrent contributed sessions
5:30 -7:00 - Innovations/Demonstrations/Posters (combination of demonstrations by commercial, individual, and group innovations in the use and development of information technologies as well as poster sessions for various activities). Includes a happy hour in the Innovations area with heavy hors d'oeuvres which can substitute for dinner if desired.
7:00-9:00 -
IAALD 50th Anniversary dessert celebration

Tuesday 5/17 - Conference
7:30-8:30 – Breakfast Buffet
7:30-8:30 -
USAIN Breakfast Business Meeting
8:30 – 9:15 Technology Keynote:
Whither Institutional Repositories: Documents to Data, Kimberly Douglas, CalTech University
9:15 – 10:30 – Creating Collaboratories, Communites and Collections in the Digital age: Sara Randall, Endeavor
; Brent Seales, University of Kentucky; Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University. Janet McCue, Moderator
10:30-11:00 - Break
11:00-12:15 New Opportunities for Collaboration: The role of the Libraries and Extension in the digital world. Panelists:
Paula Kaufman, Carla Stoffle, Lyla Houglum, Larry Turner. Carol Diedrichs, Moderator
12:15-1:30 - Networking luncheon (Interest Group Conveners facilitating)
1:30 – 2:00 – E-Extension: Taming the Fugitive Literature. Dr. Carla Craycraft and Dr. Craig Wood, E-Extension Content Coordinators
2:00 – 3:00 Tribal Libraries and Cooperative Extension – Dr. Joe Hiller, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension; Amelia Flores,
3:00-3:30 - Break
3:30-5:00 - Concurrent contributed sessions centered on human interface and partnering issues
6:00-8:30 - All conference dinner Kentucky Horse Park. “Local Knowledge in the Age of Information”,
Wendell Berry speaker

Wednesday, 5/18 – Conference
7:30-9:30 - IAALD General Assembly (breakfast will be provided)
9:30 -10:30 - Overcoming the Digital Divide: a panel discussion on initiatives to make agricultural information freely accessible to all. Stephen Rudgard FAO; Elizabeth Dodsworth, CABI; Dylan Winder, DFID; Gracian Chimwaza, TEEAL/AGORA. Mei Fangquan, Agricultural Institute, CAAS, Dorothy Mukhebi, RAIN; Peter Young, NAL, Moderator
10:30-11:00 - Break
11:00-12:00 – Overcoming the Digital Divide Continues
12:00-1:30 - Awards luncheon
1:30 -3:00 - Concurrent contributed sessions
3:00-3:30 - Break
3:30-5:00 - Facilitated session to discuss partnering opportunities and initiatives; session will begin with an overview of preliminary ideas presented by several speakers, Judy Wiza, University of Kentucky Libraries facilitator
5:00 – 15 -Conference wrap-up and Goodbyes
Downtown Dine Around (local people will take small groups of people to various downtown restaurants or people can dine
on their own)

Thursday 5/19 - Post Conference
8:30-12:00 IAALD Board Meeting
Tour: 8:00-5:00 Robinson Forest - cancelled
Tour: 9:00-12:00 William T. Young Library
Tour: 1:00-4:00 Lexington Cemetery
Boards of the organizations could meet if they wished

Friday 5/20 - Conference