Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER (European Map Curators Group)

13th CONFERENCE HELSINKI, FINLAND, 3-7 SEPTEMBER 2002

Theme: Strategies for Survival: collections, data, institutions

Place: Helsinki University Library, Finland

P R O G R A M M E

   

Excursion
We start at 09.00 AM from the Senate's Square near Helsinki University Library and drive eastwards about 50 km to Porvoo, one of the oldest towns in Finland. After a morning walk throught the narrow streets we drive on. Our next stop is in Mäntsälä, some 50 km to the North, where the former residence of the famous Nordenskiöld family is situated. After a visit to the house, nowadays a museum, we have a light lunch at the restaurant next doors. From Mäntsälä the tour goes on again about 20 km West to Järvenpää and Tuusula. At the beginning of the last century many Finnish artists had their homes built near Lake Tuusula. We will stop at the house of the most famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and directly afterwards on the shore at the wooden house built in national Finnish style by the painter Pekka Halonen. From Tuusula we will drive the short way back to Helsinki. When the weather is fine and we feel like it we can take a walk round Lake Kuusijärvi, and the brave ones can swim in the lake! We will return to Helsinki at about 17.00 PM.

Registration fee: 60 Euro

Excursion fee: 50 Euro

Payment of Registration fee and/or Excursion fee to:
   Receiver: Helsinki University Library/LIBER 2002

   Sampo Bank PLC
   Unioninkatu 22
   FI-00075 Sampo
   Finland
   SWIFT CODE: PSP BFI HH
   IBAN NO: FI 36 80001100022020
   Reference: 981-32477 (Please be sure that this reference is mentioned in your payment)

   for Finnish delegates: Sampo 800011-22020, Viite 981-32477

Inscription to be sent before 30 June 2002 to:

Pirkko Korttinen
Helsinki University Library
P.O. Box 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Tel.: +358 9 191 44336
Fax.: +358 9 191 44341

Conference e-mail: hyk-liber@helsinki.fi

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HOTEL RESERVATION

Please contact the hotels and make your reservation directly at the hotel before 30 June 2002.
In your reservation please mention our code LIBER2002 in order to get the discount negotiated for the conference. All the hotels are situated within 20 minutes walk from the University Library (Hotel Arthur is the nearest). On the websites of the hotels you find maps and further information of the hotels.
Here you can find the tourist map of Helsinki.

Strategies for survival: collections, data, institutions

This conference will focus on the practical strategies for ensuring the survival of collections and data, particularly in terms of preservation of electronic materials, but also in terms of security from theft and deterioration over time. Related to this is the theme of co-operation, both between map libraries themselves, and between producers and distributors of maps and geo-data. A final and more embracing theme is one of the survival of map libraries themselves in the future, exploring strategies for self-preservation.

The themes deliberately interconnect in that survival may depend upon co-operation, and sharing in the building of regional networks at local, national and international levels. It may also depend upon the pooling of knowledge and shared experience, and providing expertise as intermediaries between users and information.

Survival Co-operation and sharing

Further conference information

Offers for papers should be send to Chris Fleet and state: name, function, and full paper title. The offer should be accompanied by an abstract of between 150 and 250 words.

When a paper is offered which is not selected to be read at the conference it will still be published with the proceedings of the conference.

Map curators from Central- and Eastern Europe who want to participate in the conference, but who have trouble financing travel and/or accommodation are requested to write to the conference co-ordinator:

Pirkko Korttinen,
Helsinki University Library, National Bibliography,
SF00014, PL26, Helsinki, Finland.
Tel. +358919144336   
Fax. +358919144341   
E-mail: pirkko.korttinen@helsinki.fi
However, the Finnisch Organising Committee cannot guarantee that requests will be met.

Institutions or a group of institutions are invited to offer to host the 14th conference of 2004 and later bi-annual conferences. Offers should be made during the LIBER-meeting on September 3, 2002. Information on organizing a conference can be obtained from the Secretary, Chris Fleet (Map Library, National Library of Scotland, 33 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SL, United Kingdom, E-mail: c.fleet@nls.uk)