Section of Social Science LibrariesIf you have any suggestions, comments or items that you would like to see added to this collection, please direct your messages to: hobohm@fh-potsdam.deLast Update: 26.04.1999 |
The Standing Committee meetings (minutes, agenda
etc.)

The Section's Newsletter (1998/1) with reports from Copenhagen in a printable PDF-Version
The Section's Newsletter (1996/2)
with reports from China in a printable PDF-Version with nice pictures (180KB)
65th IFLA General Conference in Bangkok 1999
Wednesday, 25 August, 15:30-17:50
The Open Session of
the Section Social Science Libraries will take place under the topic
"State of the Art of Social Science Information
- thinking local, acting global?".
contact: Hans-Christoph Hobohm (hobohm@fh-potsdam.de)
Thursday, 26 August, 9:00-13:00
A half-day Workshop will
be organized with the title:
"6 billion people and counting - statistical information
for all the world's people "
jointly with the section GIOP, Government Information
and Official Publications
contact for this event is Mel Thatcher (thatchermp@ldschurch.org)
Other meetings sponsored or initiated by the section are the meetings of two discussion groups:
Monday, 23 August, 10:30-11:50
Genealogy and Local History Discussion Group,
a newly founded discussion group, which was just created
in Amsterdam last year.
They will have a workshop under the theme:
Working at the grass roots:
Helping patrons to find their
progenitors and to uncover the history that they made
Monday, 23 August, 10:30-11:50
Corporate and For Profit Libraries discussion group,
has planned to organize an Open Forum with the theme
Knowledge Organization and Business Intelligence
as a Task for the Special Librarian
64th IFLA General Conference in Amsterdam 1998
The Open Session of the Section
Social Science Libraries took place under the topic
"Libraries in Support of Education" and
brought together National Librarians of Education from all over the world.
Result of this meeting is the project of a general directory of this type
of Social Science Library!
63rd IFLA General Conference in Copenhagen 1997
| The Open Session
of the
Section Social Science Libraries took place under the topic "Business and Economics Libraries in Transition". Some pictures from our meetings in Copenhagen? |
The section's workshop was an
intense debate on library management at the Copenhagen Business
school library with Michael Cotta-Schønberg.
The pre-conference seminar
under
the theme
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62nd IFLA General Conference in Beijing1996
| The Open Session
of the
Section Social Science Libraries took place under the topic "Impact of New Technology on Libraries". |
The section's
workshop in Beijing
was prepared by Leif Lörring: "Seeking Information for Development Studies" Do you want to see some pictures from our meetings in Beijing? |

The Social Science Virtual Library
Establishing a WWW-site for the IFLA Section on
Social Science Libraries as a prototype of a topical Virtual Library.
The SSID
bibliography project
Moving the files from Helsinki and making the database
available online and interactively.
URL of this page: http://www.fh-potsdam.de/~IFLA/activity.htm