[Upd-discuss] Conference: Trading in knowledge? The World Trade Organisation and Libraries, Cambridge, UK, 2-3 March 2005

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

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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 Møller 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 – Jan Ewout van der Putten, the
Netherlands, President of EBLIDA

Introduction – Kjell Nilsson, Deputy National
Librarian, Sweden, Chair of EBLIDA’s expert group
on the WTO

13.15
	  	

Keynote speech
‘Globalisation and access to information' –
George Monbiot, author, journalist, and visiting
Professor at Oxford Brookes University

14.15
	  	

Coffee break

14.45
	  	

‘The world according to GATS’ - 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

‘What does this have to do with libraries?’ -
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 ‘Globalisation, information and
libraries: the implications of the WTO’s GATS and
TRIPS agreements’

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 €440 or £300
(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 – The conference fee will be
refunded, less an administration charge of €75
(£53). 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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Vorwärts!

Zapopan Martín Muela Meza
PhD student Information Studies
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/research/phd.html
http://www.geocities.com/zapopanmuela/index.html


		
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