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ILDS 2009: Call for Papers

Strategic Alliances and Partnerships in Interlending and Document Supply

11th Interlending and Document Supply Conference in Germany
Hannover: 20 – 22 October 2009

Participants are invited and welcome to submit papers for presentation during the ILDS conference 2009.

Conference papers should reflect the conference theme:
Strategic Alliances and Partnerships in Interlending and Document Supply

Topics of interest include:

1) Cooperation in document supply and interlending
This Topic includes examples
- of national collaborations which could serve as role models
- fields of interlibrary lending and document supply worth copying, which would also work in other library and information environments

2) National and international experiences in resource sharing
Going beyond the limits of classical document delivery and interlending, the main focus lies on examples of virtual resource sharing. Subjects of discussion are virtual libraries, portals and collaborative resource enrichment (e.g. tagging, web 2.0)

3) Open Access activities
The worldwide kick-off for Open Access was the “Budapest Open Access Initiative” in 2001. What was achieved since then? This topic tries to give a state-of-the-art and forward looking report on Open Access projects (national, international, subject-related, business models, role of publishers, economic aspects)

4) Rights & Distribution / Licensing / Economic aspects
Investigations of regulations on the working fields of libraries, e.g. how have the national adoptions of copy right reforms affected the workplace and opened the options for the development of new library policies and services? Case reports of Libraries, Library Associations etc, are welcome.

5) Future Directions / The Future of… + panel (with of 5-8 persons)
Collection of propositions and research papers surveying the future landscape of libraries and information centres

Proposals
Proposals for papers need to be submitted for approval by the ILDS 2009 Organising Committee and the Standing Committee of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section.
As the conference language will be English all proposals, abstracts and presentations must be adapted in English.
As time management in a conference is one of the most important issues please do not exceed a time-limit of 20 minutes for your presentation. You will get 10 minutes of discussion time with your audience (altogether 30 minutes).

The proposals should include the following details: