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Preliminary programme for 2006
To be completed with luncheons, courses and study tours

Date
Event
Location
Friday February 3 (12:15) AILIS General Assembly 2006 WHO
Monday March 27 (15:30) Library Science Talk
Web statistics
Ellen Fleurbaay, Amsterdam Municipal Archives, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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WIPO
Monday April 24 (15:30) Library Science Talk
Google Book Search : improving discoverability of content in the digital age
Jens Redmer, Director Google Book Search Europe, Hamburg, Germany
CERN
Monday May 8 (15:30) Library Science Talk
Let the real OA stand up! say researchers, librarians, publishers, citizens, ...
Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal, Canada
ITU
Thursday May 18 (09:30-13:00) AILIS Workshop
Workshop on structure and retrieval of UN documentation
Hands-on training and tour. Full details
United Nations Library
Thursday June 22 (10:00-17:00) AILIS Workshop
Workshop on corporate blogging and RSS (English session)
Full day hands-on training Full details
Geneva University, SES
Friday June 23 (10:00-17:00) AILIS Workshop
Workshop on corporate blogging and RSS (French session)
Full day hands-on training Full details
Geneva University, SES
Thursday June 29 (12:15) AILIS Luncheon
An overview of the challenges, outcomes and significance of the World Summit on the Information Society.
Mr Charles Geiger, executive director of the WSIS Secretariat http://www.itu.int/wsis/
WHO restaurant
Monday September 11 (15:30) Library Science Talk
WikiOnt : an ontology for describing and exchanging Wikipaedia articles
Hannes Gassert, Fribourg, Switzerland
CERN
Monday October 16 (15:30)

Library Science Talk
10 Billion words : guidelines for large-scale newspaper digitisation
Jane Shaw, British Library, London, United Kingdom
WHO
Monday November 27 (15:30) Library Science Talk
The transformation of readers to contributers - how the bloggers are changing media
Espen Egil Hansen, Verdens Gang, Oslo, Norway
CERN
Friday December 8
(dep. Geneva Cornavin 07:45)
AILIS professional visit
Central University Library, Zurich
http://www.zb.unizh.ch/
Presentation of the Library and its services (NEBIS network, IDS metacatalogue and "sfx" (Context Sensitive Linking), Library visit) followed by lunch and a visit to the exhibition "Schatzkammer der Zentralbibliothek" (treasures of the Central Library)
Zurich
Thursday December 14 (12:15) AILIS luncheon
The AILIS Christmas lunch with guest speaker:
Lara Srivastava from the ITU:
The Internet of things
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/
WHO

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Updated 10 November, 2006