[Ecommerce] Conference on globalisation and access to information

[Manon Ress]

WTO and libraries March 05, see:

http://www.sconul.ac.uk/event_conf/WTOConference/wtoprogramme

EBLIDA/SCONUL conference on trade agreements
and libraries

Trading in knowledge? The World Trade
Organisation and Libraries

A conference organised by EBLIDA (www.eblida.org)
in collaboration with SCONUL
To be held at M=F8ller Centre, Cambridge, England
2 - 3 March 2005

Wednesday 2 March 2005

12.00

Lunch

First session: Background (chair, Frode Bakken,
President, Norwegian Library Association)

13.00

Welcome =96 Jan Ewout van der Putten, the
Netherlands, President of EBLIDA

Introduction =96 Kjell Nilsson, Deputy National
Librarian, Sweden, Chair of EBLIDA=92s expert group
on the WTO

13.15


Keynote speech
=91Globalisation and access to information' =96
George Monbiot, author, journalist, and visiting
Professor at Oxford Brookes University

14.15


Coffee break

14.45


=91The world according to GATS=92 - Dale Honeck, WTO,
Geneva
A speaker from the European Commission, tbc

15.45





Ten-minute break

15.55





'Globalisation and the new knowledge trade:
patterns, politics, problems' - Susan Robertson
Professor at the Graduate School of Education,
University of Bristol
and Coordinator of the Centre for Studies of
Globalisation, Education and Societies

=91What does this have to do with libraries?=92 -
Paul Whitney, City Librarian, Vancouver

16.50





Ten-minute break

17.00





'TRIPS and libraries' - Ruth Rikowski, Visiting
Lecturer, London South Bank University, and
author of =91Globalisation, information and
libraries: the implications of the WTO=92s GATS and
TRIPS agreements=92

17.30





Session ends

19.00





Dinner

Thursday 3 March 2005

Second session: The way forward (chair, Toby
Bainton, Secretary of SCONUL (Society of College,
National and University Libraries), UK and
Ireland

9.00





Introductory panel: questions for discussion

9.15





Discussion in groups

10.15





Coffee

10.45





Concluding plenary discussion

11.45





Session ends






Lunch and departures

Programme committee: Toby Bainton, Frode Bakken,
Kjell Nilsson

To register for the conference, please use the
on-line registration form at
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/event_conf/WTOConference/WTOapplication

The cost of the conference is =80440 or =A3300
(pounds sterling)

The conference venue (www.mollercentre.co.uk) is
a modern building designed by the leading Danish
architect Henning Larsen. The cost includes:
lunch on arrival, coffee/tea during breaks,
dinner on 2 March, overnight stay at the
conference centre (all modern rooms with en-suite
shower and/or bath), light lunch before
departure.

Soon after registration you will receive an
invoice for the conference fee from EBLIDA;
except that UK registrants will be invoiced in
sterling by SCONUL

Cancellation policy: cancellations received by 31
December 2004: no charge; cancellations received
by 31 January 2005 =96 The conference fee will be
refunded, less an administration charge of =8075
(=A353). After 31 January no refunds will be made
but substitution will be accepted.

Cambridge is 30 minutes by train from Stansted
Airport, where (for example) Easyjet and Ryanair
operate low-cost flights to many European cities:
see www.easyjet.com and www.ryanair.com



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