LIDA
LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
BON VOYAGE!
LIDA 2002
Dubrovnik, Croatia
22 - 25 May 2002
www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
WELCOME!
LIDA 2003
Dubrovnik, Croatia
21 - 24 May 2003
Inter-University
Centre
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LIDA courses &
conferences
• Annual programs
– held in BEAUTIFUL Dubrovnik
• International forum for exchange &
learning
• Changing themes annually
– But steady purposes & objectives
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LIDA purpose
• to address the changing and
challenging environment for
libraries and information systems
and services in the digital age
• with an emphasis on examining
contemporary problems, advances
and solutions
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LIDA 2002 themes:
Integrating information
seeking & information retrieval
&
Information services in digital
environments- practice and
research
Reminder: past LIDAs
• 2001:
The Internet: ethics and legal issues
&
Information services - practice and research
• 2000:
Libraries on the Internet
&
Internet in Libraries
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Future:
LIDA 2003 themes:
Information retrieval and the
Web
&
Web & information services practice and research
Invited proposals for:
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Papers, presentations
Panels
Tutorials
Workshops
Exhibits
Sponsors
Support for students
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Major changes in libraries
• Affected through evolution of
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
• Changes in nature of :
– COLLECTION
• What is now a ‘collection’?
– ACCESS
• How do people seek information? Search
& retrieve? Use information?
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changes ...
– SERVICES
• What is provided? What works? What is possible?
– COOPERATION
• How to cooperate effectively?
– MANAGEMENT
• How to manage? Evaluate? Economics? Trade-offs?
– CONTEXT
• New modes for users? Use?
• Social, legal, cultural problems?
– TECHNOLOGY
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Needed: new knowledge
– a new set of competencies
• firmly build upon old ones
– constant upgrade of knowledge & skills
– constant improvement
• But provides
– new rewards & opportunities
– reaching out to users more than ever
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Tradition
• Internet & digital age do NOT
mean abandoning library
tradition & values
• It means
– application of true & tried
principles & values to new
situations
– AND developing new ones
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Opportunities
• Basic principles remain
– but now we have an opportunity to extend
to new modes of access & services
• In libraries: new modes always meant
new opportunities
– adjust, use, expand, innovate
At the same time critically examine
everything
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