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Theme: Libraries as Place and Space
Audience: All library and information professionals interested in space management for libraries in the digitised environment or concerned with planning library spaces, new buildings and services in new buildings and spaces.
Location: National University Library, Piazza Carlo Alberto 3, Torino
REGISTRATION TO THE CONFERENCE AND TO CULTURAL EVENTS IS REQUIRED.
Simultaneous interpretation from Italian into English and from English into Italian will be provided.
Programme
Wednesday 19 August 2009
- 10.00 Registration opens
- 10.30 Visit to the Royal Library of Turin (meeting at the National Library, same place of the conference)
- 12.00 Visit to the National University Library of Turin
Conference programme
- 14.00 Welcome by Regione Piemonte
- 14.05 Introductory remarks by Rossana Morriello Conference Organiser, Italian Library Association
- 14.10 Key note speaker – To be confirmed
New libraries, new spaces with new challenges
- 14.30 Session 1: The Turin Library System and the City.
Paolo Messina, Director, Turin City Library System, Italy
- 15.00 Session 2: Beyond co-location: designing and managing new model library spaces and services to reflect trends in convergence and integration.
Sue Boaden, Director, Australia Street Company P/L, Sydney, Australia and Carina Clement, Cultural Programs and Audience Development Team Leader, Library Museum, Albury City Council, New South Wales, Australia.
- 15.30 Session 3: The UnLibrary – library within a library.
Damien Wang, National Library of Singapore.
- 16.00 Session 4: The Library of Birmingham – Hub of the Knowledge Economy
Brian Gambles, Assistant Director, Culture, Birmingham City Council and Francesco Veenstra, Partner Architect, Mecanoo, UK.
- 16.30 Session 5: In the Words of the Users: The role of the urban public library as place
Francine May, Librarian, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 17.00 Plenary
- 17.15 First day of conference ends
- 17.30 Departure by bus from the National Library to Venaria Castle.
Visit to Venaria Castle and Conference dinner inside the Castle, at delegate's expenses. Registration required. Cost per person: 70 euros (including dinner + guided visit to Venaria Castle + bus from Torino to Venaria and back) to be paid before registration to the conference.
Thursday 20 August 2009
Libraries as a Third Space
- 09.00 Session 6: Scenario and Strategies of Design for the Libraries of the 21st Century
Marco Muscogiuri, Architect, Alterstudio partners Milan, Professor, Milan Polytechnic, Italy
- 09.30 Session 7: Public Libraries as Impartial Spaces in the 21st Century
Christine Rooney-Browne Phd Student & David McMenemy, Lecturer,
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
- 10.00 Session 8: Public Libraries as Third Places
Antonella Agnoli, Library Consultant, Bologna, Italy
- 10.30 Refreshment Break
- 11.00 Session 9: University Libraries as Third Places
Stephanie A. Clemons, Colorado State University; Lisa K. Waxman, Florida State University; James Benning, Colorado State University; David McKelfrish, Colorado State Universit, USA
- 11.30 Session 10: The Public Library as a Place for the Formation of Citizenship
Orlanda Jaramillo,Profesora Titular, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología, Estudiante Doctorado en Educación, Línea Formación Ciudadana, Medellín, Colombia.
- 12.00 Plenary
- 12.30 Lunch: buffet in the National University Library, same place of the conference.
- 13.00 Visit to the National University Library
Theory to Practice - Some Conceptual Approaches
- 13.30 Session 11: Physical Space in Theory and Beyond: Building Libraries in the Knowledge Societies
Olaf Eigendrodt, Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 14.00 Session 12: Watch This Space…current issues in physical space and its effective use in academic and public libraries
Professor Graham Matthews, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, UK, Dr Graham Walton, Service Development Manager, Pilkington Library, Loughborough University, UK, Dr Anne Goulding, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, UK and Jo Bryant, Information Specialist (Government Library), UK.
- 14.30 Session 13: The Impact of University Library as Space and Place: Best Practices in Tampere University Library
MirjaIivonen, Anne Lehto & Leena Toivonen, Tampere University Library, Finland.
- 15.00 Plenary
- 15.15 Refreshment break
Revitalising Libraries as Places and Spaces
- 15.45 Session 14:New Orleans Public Library Revival
Anders C. Dahlgren, President Planning Associates Inc., & member of IFLA Standing Committee on Library Buildings.
- 16.15 Session 15: Renovating Academic Libraries in Hong Kong: Meeting the new academic challenges in the 21st Century
Tommy Yeung, Associate Librarian, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
- 16.45 Session 16: The “librarian’s library” in translation from physical to virtual place: A case study of the Library & Information Science Library at the University of Illinois, USA
Professor Susan E. Searing, University of Illinois, USA.
- 17.15 Plenary
- 17.30 Second day of conference ends
- 18.30 Cultural programme: guided sightseeing tour of Torino by tourist bus.Guide in Italian, English, Spanish, French, German. Free of charge for delegates but registration is required.
Departures: 18.30 - 19.30 - 20.30
Friday 21 August 2009
Finding New Design Solutions
- 09.30 Session 17: New Public Libraries vis a vis urban lifestyles and global cities
Dr. Anna Galluzzi, Senate Library "Giovanni Spadolini", Rome, Italy
- 10.00 Session 18: Small Changes – Big Difference: Bournemouth University Library and its learning community
David Ball, University Librarian, Jill Beard, Deputy University Librarian & Penny Dale, Subject Librarian, Bournemouth University, UK.
- 10.30 Refreshment Break
- 11.00 Session 19: Turning the Library into a Place for Learning: Developing the library as a part of a learning resource centre, Larum.
Dr Lena Olsson, Stockholm University, Sweden.
- 11.30 Session 20: Designing an Academic Library as a Place and a Space: How a robotic storage system will create a twenty first century library design
Sharon L. Bostick, Ph.D., Dean of Libraries, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA & Bryan Irwin, ALA, Principal, Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.
- 12.00 Plenary
- 12.15 Concluding remarks and thanks.
- 14.00 Cultural tour to Lake Maggiore:
Friday 21 August (pm) and Saturday 22 August 2009 optional at delegate’s expense. Registration required.
Travel cost from Torino to Stresa and from Stresa to Milan by bus 20 euros per person to be paid before sending the registration form to the conference.
Hotel in Stresa at delegate's expense (a list of hotels will be available as soon as possible).
Programme (to be confirmed):
Departure from Torino Friday 21 August at 14.00 by bus - arrival at Stresa (Lake Maggiore) at about 17.00 Staying overnight at Stresa on Lake Maggiore.
Departure from Stresa Saturday 22 August at 14.00 by bus - arrival at Milan at about 16.00
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