Information as Public Domain: Access through Libraries
Conference sessions to be held in Tavrichesky Palace on the premises of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Address: Shpalernaya str, 47
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
9.00 - 10.00 - Registration of participants
10.00-10.40 - Welcome and Introduction
Addresses by:
- Mr. Sergey M. Mironov, Chairman of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Chairman of the Federal Assembly of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
- Mr. Mikhail I. Krotov, Secretary General of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Mr. Evgeniy I. Kuzmin, Head of Archives Sector of the Department of State Policy of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, Member of the Executive Board of IFLA
- Mr. Vladimir N. Zaitsev, Director General of the National Library of Russia, President of the Russian Library Association, Member of the Council under the Chairman of the Federal Assembly of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
- Mr. Victor V. Fedorov, Director General of the Russian State Library, President of the Non-commercial Partnership "Eurasia Library Assembly", member of the Presidium of the Culture and Arts Council under the President of the Russian Federation
- Mr. Vladimir A. Shakhmatov, Rector of the North-West Academy of Civil Services under the President of the Russian Federation
Session 1
Facilitating Public Access to Socially Important Information in the Public Domain: Government Policies and World Experience
10.40-11.10 - Accessibility and openness of information in the public domain as the cornerstone of building civil society
Natalia L. Dementieva, Member of the Information Policy Commission, Federal Assembly of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
11.10-11.30 - Glasgow - a learning city in the 21st century
John Lynch, Convener Cultural and Leisure Services, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow, UK
11.30-11.50 - The Power of Information in a New Century
Lynne D. Scheib, Reference Specialist, U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs, Washington, DC, U.S.
11.50-12.10 - Coffee break
12.10-12.30 - Russian Libraries and provision of socially important information to different categories of users
Evgeniy I. Kuzmin, Head, Archives Sector of the Department of State Policy, Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, Member of the Executive Board of IFLA, Moscow, Russia
12.30-12.50 - Transparency: a principle for information in the public domain
Paul Sturges, Chair, IFLA Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE);
Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK
12.50-13.10 - Eurasia Library Assembly: opportunities for building common information and intellectual environment
Ekaterina V. Nikonorova, Director General, Non-commercial Partnership "Eurasia Library Assembly"; Director, Science and Publishing, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia
13.10-13.30 - State policies on facilitating public access to socially important information: overview of world experience
Vladimir R. Firsov, Deputy Director General, the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
13.30-13.50 - UNESCO "Information for All" Programme as a tool for facilitating public access to information
Alexey A. Demidov, Deputy Chairman, Russian Committee of Information for All Programme, Moscow, Russia
13.50-14.30 - Lunch
Session 2
Networking and Cooperation of Libraries in Facilitating Openness and Accessibility of Information in the Public Domain
14.30-14.50 - Partnership of CIS parliamentary libraries in disseminating socially important information (ppt, 759 kb)
Irina A. Andreeva, Chairman, Coordinating Committee of Parliamentary Libraries of CIS, Moscow, Russia
14.50-15.10 - Parliaments, the public and information: the role of parliamentary libraries (ppt, 66.5 kb)
Priscilla Baines, Librarian, the Library of the House of Commons, London, UK
15.10-15.30 - Information as public domain: political and legal aspects
Victor N. Monakhov, Senior Researcher of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO "Information for All" programme, Moscow, Russia
15.30 - 15.50 - Opening Doors: the role of parliamentary libraries in consolidating democracy (ppt, 470 kb)
Janet Seaton, Head, Research and Information Services, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK
15.50-16.10 - "Russian Libraries in the Third Millennium" Project
Olga N. Koulish, Deputy Director, the National Library of Russia, StPetersburg, Russia
16.10-16.40 - Coffee break
16.40-17.00 - Legal provisions for and shaping of common information environment of the CIS countries
Irina V. Chigareva, Director, Library of the North-West Academy of Civil Services, St. Petersburg, Russia
Konstantin A. Pshenko, Deputy Head, Chief Analytical Department, Secretariat of the Interparliamentary Assembly, St. Petersburg, Russia
17.00-17.20 - Information technologies as a tool for facilitating access to socially important information
Alexander E. Kouznetsov, Deputy Director General, Legal content and software provider "ConsultantPlus", St. Petersburg, Russia
17.20 - 17.40 - Ukraine policy on the information society
Sergey I. Doroguntsev, Deputy, Supreme Rada of the Ukraine; Chairman of the Standing Commission on Science and Education, Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS, Kyiv, Ukraine
17.45 - Close of day one and tour of the Tavrichesky Palace
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Focus-seminar for the representatives of the Parliamentary Libraries of the CIS, 9.30-13.30
Session 3
New Information Technologies in Disseminating Socially Important Information
9.30-9.50 - Partnership networks as a tool for developing regional information policies
Andrey V. Chugunov, Deputy Director, Interdisciplinary Center of St. Petersburg State University; non-profit organization "Partnership for Information Society Development in the North-West of Russia" , St. Petersburg, Russia
9.50-10.10 - Russian System of disseminating legal information: distribution of roles
Irina I. Mironova, Vice-Presiden, Legal Information Consortium "Kodeks" , St. Petersburg, Russia
10.10-10.30 - The role of Endorsing Centres in ensuring the right for information
E V.Grysunova, Law Consultant, of "Endorsing Centre, Ltd", St. Petersburg, Russia
10.30 - 10.50 - E-services for the visually-impaired users and access to the information in the public domain
Galina S. Elfimova, Chief Librarian, Russian State Library for the Blind, Moscow, Russia
10.50-11.10 - Information technologies for knowledge management
Igor A. Pechenkin, Director General, "Informburo" , Moscow, Russia
11.10-11.30 - Setting Up the Network of Public Centres for Legal Information in public libraries in the Republic of Belarus
Elena E. Dolgopolova, Deputy Director, the National Library of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
11.30-11.50 - Access to government information resources: library support programme
L. N. Litovchenko, Head of Department, "Garant", Moscow, Russia
11.50-12.00 - Break
12.10-13.10 - Round Up. Plenary session. Close of Conference
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Visit to the Konstantinovsky Palace
