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See you in Sofia soon!
Sofia 2002 is part of a highly successful international conference series hosted in Kansas City, Kansas (1995), Warsaw, Poland (1997) and Sofia, Bulgaria (2000). The series is designed to explore the impact of globalization and change on the development of libraries, information infrastructures and society.
Sofia 2002 will bring together a wide range of experts in library and information science; infrastructure, technology, international development and policy from the U.S.A., Canada, Western Europe as well as Central and Eastern Europe.
Core Issues To Be Explored
- Libraries in the digital age
- Digital age and patron services
- Scholarly communication
- Globalization of the information market
- Developing collections in the 21st Century
- Libraries as centers for cultural change
- Libraries as information centers
- Libraries' role in economic and social development
- Libraries and the social integration
- Civil society and libraries
- Changes in library education
- Libraries and development of the national information infrastructure
- International library cooperation
- Barriers to access to information
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Dr. Herbert Achleitner School of Library and Information Management Emporia State University P. O. Box 4025 Emporia, Kansas 66801, USA e-mail: achleith@emporia.edu Fax: 620.341.5233 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Dimchev Chair, Department of Library and Information Sciences Vice Dean of Faculty of Philosophy University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" e-mail: Dimchev@sclg.uni-sofia.bg tel. (+359 2) 70 42 36 15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1504 Sofia Bulgaria |