The International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL) is a voluntary international organization which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas relevant to librarianship in technological universities throughout the world. It also provides library directors and senior managers an opportunity to develop a collaborative approach to solving common problems.
The 29th Annual IATUL Conference was held on the 21st of April – 24th of April, 2008 at AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. The 29th Annual IATUL Conference’s theme was “Digital Discovery: Strategies and Solutions”.
The final conference program for the conference can be found at this link: 2008 IATUL Conference Program.
Papers and presentations may be found in the links below, organized first by the day they were presented and then alphabetically by the title of the presentation. Presentations that were given may be found under the additional files field. Papers and presentations for which no files were provided, or for which permission to make openly available was not granted, have been omitted from this collection.
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A national digital data policy for the United States: to be or not to be? James L. Mullins, Purdue University 12:00 AM |
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Charting the landscape of an innovation university library Ari Muhonen, Helsinki University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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Penny Carnaby, Chief Executive / National Librarian National Library of New Zealand 12:00 AM |
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Creating a free to read international digital library - five years later Erika Linke, Carnegie Mellon University 12:00 AM |
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Digitization initiatives: a reconnaissance of the global landscape Marinus Swanepoel, University of Lethbridge 12:00 AM |
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Layers of a national digital information strategy in Germany Maria Mann-Kallenborn, Universität der Bundeswehr München 12:00 AM |
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Hannie Sander, University of Johannesburg 12:00 AM |
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Towards a Canadian Digitization Strategy Janine Schmidt, McGill University 12:00 AM |
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| Tuesday, April 22nd | ||
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Alison Stevenson, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre 12:00 AM |
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Becoming the authoritative source: taking repositiories centre stage Howard Amos, Deputy University Librarian University of New South Wales 12:00 AM |
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Michael Fosmire, Purdue University 12:00 AM |
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eResearch developments in Australia Rhys Francis, Executive Director Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council 12:00 AM |
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eResearch: access and support to university researchers Judy Stokker, Director, Library Services. QUT 12:00 AM |
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Going digital, experiences at the Wellcome Library Dave Thompson, Digital Curator, Wellcome Library 12:00 AM |
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Rowena Cullen, Victoria University of Wellington 12:00 AM |
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Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN): opportunities and challenges Sam Searle, Victoria University of Wellington 12:00 AM |
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Minding our Ps and Qs - issues of property, provenance and quality in institutional repositories Bruce White, Massey University Library 12:00 AM |
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Robin Walsh, Macquarie University Library 12:00 AM |
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| Wednesday, April 23rd | ||
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A Captologic Approach To the Challenges of Digital Discover Shahed Rashidi, University of Tehran 12:00 AM |
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Getting in their Space: Information Literacy Training fpr Off-Campus Students Brenda Johnson, Massey University Library 12:00 AM |
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Giving Research Global Reach: ResearchSpace@ Auckland Vanessa Newton-Wade, The University of the Auckland 12:00 AM |
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Jamshid Sadeghiani, University of Tehran 12:00 AM |
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Opening the Pandora's Box of Digitized Collections Silas Marques De Oliveira, James White Library, Andrews University 12:00 AM |
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The Digital Strategy and Matauranga Maori (Maori Knowledge) Evelyn Tobin, Library and Information Advisory Commission 12:00 AM |
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Maryam Nakhoda, LIS Department of University of Tehran 12:00 AM |
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| Thursday, April 24th | ||
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Digital library initiatives in India: a proposal for open distance learning Sujatha Gurram, Ambedkar Open University 12:00 AM |
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Discovering the library: finding the hidden barriers to success using the catalog Ellen Safley, University of Texas at Dallas 12:00 AM |
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Enticing the Google generation: Web 2.0, social networking and university students Philip G. Kent, University Librarian Victoria University 12:00 AM |
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Nader Naghshineh, Information Studies Laboratory [ISL], Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran 12:00 AM |
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It's been ILL for a long time, is it close to death? What is the future of inter library loans? Helen Livingston, Director Library Services UniSA 12:00 AM |
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Leveraging leverage - how strategies can really work for you Anne Horn, Deakin University Library 12:00 AM |
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Gillian Hallam, Queensland University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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TUlib: Interactive learning and discovery of information literacy skills using Web 2.0 features Karin Clavel, TU Delft Library 12:00 AM |
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Web 2.0 for learning discovery Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information 12:00 AM |
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