Date: 9 November 2010, Parma, Italy
Venue: Biblioteca Civica, University of Parma, Vicolo Santa Maria 5, Parma, 9.00-17.30.
Registration: Participation to the seminar is free, but for organizational reason it is necessary to register in advance. Please send an email with your name and your affiliation to Christin Mollenhauer (christin.mollenhauer@nemo.unipr.it).
Hosts: DL.org European project, DILL International Master, University of Parma

New strategic alliance: DL.org has forged an alliance with Digital Library Learning (DILL), a Master Programme under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Programme with the aim of offering a springboard on education and training on digital libraries.

Event in detail

Parma, setting for Seminar, 9 Nov 2010

The information society in general and digital libraries in particular can be researched from different perspectives and angles: Digital libraries are, for example, technological systems and can be researched as such; but they are also organizations and they can be researched also in that respect; they are arenas for information seeking behaviour and for social processes such as learning and knowledge sharing, which can be another dimension of research; they are collections of content that need curation (collection, description, preservation, retrieval, etc); they are social institutions with a social mandate, and as such they are affected by social, demographic and legal issues.
This  one-day seminar, as a forum for discussion between the research communities participating in the DL.org activities and the communities of Digital Library education in Europe. The main aim of the seminar is to energise thinking on research and education in digital library and explore ways fto foster closer co-operation between them.

• Start discussing how to implement a European scale mechanism for exchanging, sharing and integrating research results into education in digital libraries.
• Start defining research topics suitable for PhD students to ease the integration of research done in European projects and research done in Universities.
• Discuss how the interoperability research results of DL.org can be transferred to education in digital libraries.

Seminar features include presentations on the topic and a round-table debate.