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Machine or Mate? Nordic Virtual Reference Conference March 23-24th, 2006 at the National Museum of Finland, Helsinki (address: Mannerheimintie 34)
Effective service – High quality work – Seamless activity – The lonely client

Registration before the 15th February 2006

Thursday, March 23th

8:30-9:30 Registration and coffee

Chair Gunilla Häkli
9:30-9:45 Opening and welcome
9:45-10:15 The Hybrid library and what then? Library Director Maija Berndtson
10:15-11:30 Key note speech. Reference Work in the Digital Age. Associate Professor Joseph Janes
11:45-12:30 Libraries in transformation; the virtual client. Executive Director of the Danish National Library Authority Jens Thorhauge

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Chair Maria Repo
13:30-15:15 Presentations of the Nordic services
13:30-13:45 Biblioteksvagten.dk. Vera Daugaard (Denmark)
13:45-14:00 Biblioteksvar.no. Siri Tidemann-Andersen (Norway)
14:00-14:15 Frågabiblioteket.se, multilingual reference service. Linnéa Sjögren & Åke Nygren (Sweden)
14:15-14:30 Lapponica – Northern reference service and Digmore – Digital cultural heritage. Irene Piippola & Riitta Kuusisto (Finland)
14:30-14:45 Biblioteken.fi – Bilingual virtual services. Robin Fortelius (Finland)
14:45-15:00 "AnswerMe.is and Where.is": words and meaning in the virtual and the real world. Þóra Gylfadóttir (Iceland)
15:00-15:15 Virtual reference services in Estonia. Reelika Punab (Estonia)
15:15-15:45 Refreshments
15:45-16:30 Towards the National semantic webs Content Infrastructure and Services – Practical Experiences from Semantic Portals and the Ontologisation of Thesauruses. Professor Eero Hyvönen

19:00- Reception and Dinner
19:00- Reception: Meetingpoint@lasipalatsi


Friday, March 24th

Chair Saara Ihamäki
9:00-9:45 Catching the mobile client – mobile technique and information services. Professor Arto Karila.
9:45-10:30 Loneliness – the Price of the Online Society. Doctor of Technology and Doctor of Economic Sciences, member of parliament Tarja Cronberg
10:30-11:00 Internet and the Libraries. Senior Library Advisor Tuula Haavisto
11.15-12:00 Children's Library. Librarian Katarina Dorbell

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Chair Tuula Haavisto
13:00-13:45 Re-educating an old librarian. Reference librarian Marja-Leena Länsipuro

14:00-15:00 Conclusive discussion

15:00-18:00 Excursions to libraries in central Helsinki

Saturday, March 25th

10:00-14:00 Bus tour to the libraries in the Helsinki region. Cost about 20 €.


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