La Bibliothèque nationale suisse, l'Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists et le Service d'information scientifique du CERN ont le plaisir de vous présenter le programme 2002 du cycle "Library Science Talks".

Ces conférences offrent aux professionnels des bibliothèques et des archives la possibilité d'élargir leurs connaissances et d'entrer en contact avec des spécialistes en bibliothéconomie et en gestion. Toutes ces conférences seront données en anglais.

Presentations will be held twice: in Bern at the Swiss National Library and in Geneva at CERN or WHO or WIPO always at 15:30. All the presentations will be in English. The talks are open to all sponsors staff, and those linked to Scientific Information-related tasks are sure to find them of particular interest. Staff from other libraries are welcome to attend these talks.

• For the talks in Bern at SNL external guests should be at the Hallwylstrasse 15 at 15:30. For further information and a map you can contact Ms. Genevieve Clavel (genevieve.clavel@slb.admin.ch)or (031) 322.89.36.
  
  
• For the talks in Geneva at CERN external guests should be at the Reception of CERN building 33 at 15:15 to be guided to the various conference rooms. You have to register to attend - stating your interest in all sessions or any one in particular - by telephone (022) 767.24.31
  
  
• For the talks in Geneva at WHO, World Health Organization, external guests should come in the main door of the WHO, 20 Av. Appia, and take the elevators to your right as you enter. The conference room will be Salle G (eight floor) . You can register to attend by contacting the secretariat of WHO library by telephone at (022) 791 20 77 or by e-mail: shibatak@who.ch
  
  
• For the talk in Geneva at WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization, external guests should be at the Reception desk of WIPO, 34, chemin des Colombettes, at 15h20 to be guided to the conference room 1.27 first floor of the main building.

The aim of the presentation is to introduce the audience to the idea of Decision Support Systems (DSS).
Mr. Tegelaars will give a short overview of the Decision Support System concept, its context, origin, history and present status, and describe various types of DSS. He will then look at the application of information systems to library processes and practices, including successive levels of management. He will examine the issues and the difficulties surrounding the introduction and use of DSS in libraries and give examples of some applications. A number of research projects, carried out during the 1990s and sponsored by the European Union, to develop generalised DSS systems for use in libraries will be described.

To date, there are 102 publishers participating in CrossRef, accounting for over 5,741 journals with over 4 million article records in the database. There are also a number of affiliates , library affiliates and associated organizations participating in CrossRef.

CrossRef functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. A researcher clicking on a link will be connected to a page on
the publisher's website showing a full bibliographical citation of the article, and, in most cases, the abstract as well. The reader can then access the full text article through the appropriate mechanism.

Further reading http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-winter/article1.html and http://www.crossref.org