Agenda Executive Committee meeting

Helsinki, Finland, 12 March 2005

 

DRAFT AGENDA

The meeting will take place at the Suomen Kirjatoseura (Finnish Library Association)

Vuorikatu 22 A 18

FIN-00100 Helsinki

FINLAND

 

Contact Disa Svenskberg or Sinikka Sipila for further information.

 

Saturday 12 March 9h30-17h15

 

Chair: Jan Ewout van der Putten, President EBLIDA

 

Time

Item

09h30 – 09h45

  1. Opening and announcements

  2. Apologies for absence

  3. Approval of Agenda

  4. Approval Draft Minutes Executive Committee meeting Prague, Czech Republic, 5–6 November 2004

09h45 – 10h15

  1. Draft EBLIDA Work Programme 2004 – 2005: Update

10h15 – 11h00

  1. EBLIDA Finances: Draft Budget 2005 (Update) and Financial Statement 2004

María Pía González Pereira and Klaus-Peter Böttger

 

11h00 – 11h15

Coffee break

 

11h15 – 12h15

  1. EBLIDA Membership Working Group Meeting The Hague, Netherlands, 15 December 2004 and Work Meeting, Krakow, Poland, 31 March – 1 April 2005

Winnie Vitzansky and Pedro Hípola

 

12h15 – 12h45

  1. Other EBLIDA membership issues:

  • Membership status report

  • Letter re: new EU countries’ National Library and Archive Associations

  • Dutch Full Member NVB (Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals): payment of full membership fee 2004

  • FFCB (French Federation of Library Cooperation): requested cancellation due to budget problems (outstanding payments for 2003 and 2004); cancellation effective as of 1 January 2005

  • Cancellations and New members 2005

 

María Pía González Pereira

 

12h45 – 13h45

Lunch break

Lunch will take place at Hotel Arthur’s Restaurant (opposite meeting venue)

They offer lunch for approx. € 10,50 (soup, warm food, salad and coffee) or light for € 6,80 (soup, salad and coffee)

 

13h45 – 14h30

  1. Cooperation with other organisations:

  • Meeting EBLIDA – FEP (Federation of European Publishers)

    • María Pía González Pereira

     

    • Archives: progress with ICA (International Council on Archives)

    Berndt Fredriksson

     

  • EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research)

    Sue Brown

     

  • eIFL, Electronic Information for Libraries: Possible cooperation with EBLIDA

    María Pía González Pereira

     

14h30 – 15h30

  1. EBLIDA Annual Council 2005 and Elections

Danish Library Umbrella suggestion: EBLIDA annual Council meetings in Autumn

 

15h30 – 15h45

Coffee break

 

15h45 – 16h15

  1. EBLIDA Working Groups:

  • WTO: GATS Seminar, Cambridge, UK, 2 – 3 March 2005

  • CEG: Approval of new Chair, Toby Bainton (SCONUL, UK); Meeting Cambridge, UK, 3 – 4 March 2005

  • PEG: Meeting Helsinki, Finland, 11 March 2005

        Sue Brown

  • New Working Group on Culture: proposal for Council

 

16h15 – 16h50

  1. Information on lobbying and monitoring issues:

        Winnie Vitzansky & Sinikka Sipila

        Sinikka Sipila

  • Creative industries

        Britt-Marie Häggström

  • WIPO Treaty ‘Access to Knowledge’ (A2K)

        María Pía González Pereira

  • Info Points

        Marian Koren

  • CALIMERA Update

 

16h50 – 17h00

  1. EBLIDA website: Statistics on use and visitors

17h00 – 17h15

  1. Any other business

  2. Next meeting: Proposal for new Executive Committee: Riga (Latvia), in connection with Workshop on Open Access

  3. Closure

15h30 – 15h45

Dinner at Kosmos Restaurant

Kalevankatu 3

Tel.: +358 9 64 72 55

Fax: +358 9 60 76 03

 

 

 

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