Strait to the Future: The 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 22-26 August 1999
Strait to the Future: The 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 22-26 August 1999
The 8th Asia-Pacific Specials Health and Law Librarians' Conference is sponsored by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and will include presented papers, subject focus workshops and information exchanges, trade exhibits and pre- and post-Conference events.
Strait to the Future will prepare the profession for the new millennium. It will provide delegates with the opportunity to share and debate opinions with experts, colleagues and vendors in a beautiful setting. Over 600 delegates and 30 trade exhibitors are expected to attend. The Conference aims to provide speakers capable of delivering dynamic,thought-provoking talks that will encourage audience participation in learning exchanges. Papers will be published on the Web. Delegates will have exclusive access to these just prior to the Conference.
The themes for the Conference are:
Looking forward, looking back
The roles of information reading, research and archives future,present, past.
Islands: overcoming isolation.
Innovations: meeting the challenges.
Information ecology
The information landscape.
Knowledge management.
Transience and permanence, access and ownership.
Training and education.
The vision
Technovision: boom or bust.
The wired planet: information and IT trends.
Communication networks.
Balanced lives on the cutting edge.
Human resources issues.
The specialist niche in cyberspace.
Experience and visions/invasions and colonisations on the WWW.
Strait to the future
Scenarios.
Hypothetical.
Panel of a range of people.
Mail, fax, or e-mail all proposals to: Mures Convention Management, Victoria Dock, Hobart, Tasmania 7000. Tel: (03) 6234 1424; Fax: (03) 6234 4464; E-mail: conventions@mures.com.au
