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Programme

Monday, May 8
Tuesday, May 9
Wednesday, May 10
Thursday, May 11
Friday, May 12

Monday, May 8

Morning

10.00 - 10.45	Registration
10.45 - 11.00	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Italian activities in Antarctica Ivo Allegrini, Vice President PNRA S.c.r.l. Luana Testa, Scientific Program PNRA S.c.r.l.
Session 1	Chair: Dennis Stephens Alaska Center for Kephart Studies, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
11.45 - 12.15	David H. Stam, Syracuse University Deirdre C. Stam, Long Island University By sledge, ski and ship; Early information networking in the cold regions
12.15 - 12.45	Mary Katherine Jones, History Institute, University of Tromso International Networks for Sharing Polar Resources: in the beginning…
12.45 - 13.45	Lunch

Afternoon

13.45 - 14.15	Laura J. Kissel, Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program Sharing the Unsharable: Classified Documents in Private Archival Collections
14.15 - 14.45	Irene Piippola, The Provincial Library of Lapland Old maps of the North Calotte in the collection of the Provincial Library of Lapland, Rovaniemi
14.45 - 15.15	Vibeke Sloth Jakobsen and Kirsten Kluver, Danish Polar Center Danmark Ekspeditionen 1906-1908: Literature – archival material – photographs - links
15.15 - 15.30	Coffee
15.30 - 17.30	UArctic librarians' Open Forum

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Tuesday, May 9

Morning

Session 2	David Walton, British Antarctic Survey
9.00 - 9.30	Nancy C. Liston, Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory Library – moving forward to seek collaborative alternatives
9.30 - 10.00	Sharon N. Tahirkheli, American Geological Institute Collaborative Bibliographic Development in the Cold Regions Bibliography Project
10.00 - 10.30	Paolo Plini , CNR Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, EKOLab Rosamaria Salvatori, CNR Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, Remote Sensing Laboratory MauroValt, ARPAV Arabba Avalanche Centre Valentina De Santis, CNR Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, EKOLab SnowTerm: a terminology database on snow and ice
10.30 - 10.45	Coffee
Session 3	Berit Jakobsen, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
10.45 - 11.15	Ross Goodwin, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary Sharon N. Tahirkheli, American Geological Institute Heather Lane, Scott Polar Research Institute Fred Durr, National Information Service Corporation (NISC) The International Polar Year Publications Database
11.15 - 11.45	Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center Discovery and Access of Historic Literature of the IPY's (DAHLI): Rescuing Records and Publications of Early IPY Ventures
11.45 - 12.30	Panel Discussion: International Polar Year data and information management Chair: Ross Goodwin, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center Heather Lane, Scott Polar Research Institute Nancy C. Liston, Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch

Afternoon

14.00 - 16.00	Visit to the National Library
18.30 - 20.30	Colloquy Steering Committee supper meeting

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Wednesday, May 10

Morning

Session 4	Chair: Marcel Brannemann, Alfred Wengener Institute
9.00 - 9.30	Pierre Beaudreau, Departmental Library, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Public enquiries and the special library: leveraging library resources to enhance the delivery of enquiry services to the public at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
9.30 - 10.00	Shelly Sommer, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research Strengthening the library through user education
10.00 - 10.30	Sandy Campbell and Weiwei Shi, Science and technology Library, University of Alberta Podcasts and Screencasts for Delivery of Polar Information Literacy
10.30 - 10.45	Coffee
10.45 - 11.00	William Mills Book Prize
11.00 - 11.30	Pierre Beaudreau, Departmental Library, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Introducing the new Polar Libraries Colloquy website
11.30 - 12.30	Colloquy business meeting
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch

Afternoon

Session 5	Chair: Sharon N. Tahirkheli, American Geological Institute
13.45 - 14.15	Steve Schafer, Athabasca University Providing Digital Resources in Polar Libraries
14.15 - 14.45	Anna Grazia Chiodetti, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Earth-prints: a geoscience open archive for open-minded geoscientists
14.45 - 15.15	Raimund E. Goerler, Ohio State University Archives Lynn Lay, Goldthwait Polar Library, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University Polar librarians and archivists using a digital depository: the Ohio State University experience
15.15 - 15.30	Coffee
15.30 - 16.00	Elena Benedetti and Alessandro Damiani, SIRIA Project Information system for the Italian Polar research
16.00 - 16.30	Elaine Maloney, CCI Press, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta The Solstice Series: A New and Innovative Form of Research Presentation and Dissemination

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Thursday, May 11

Morning

Session 6	Chair: Vibeke Sloth Jakobsen, Danish Polar Center
9.00 - 9.30	Michela Cecconi, Andrea Marchitelli and Silvia Sarti, Consortium fot the Italian Antarctic Program From a collective catalogue (ACNP) to the Network Inter-Library Document Exchange (NILDE): a way to share resources and to improve user services
9.30 - 10.00	Irina Merkina, Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography Library today
10.00 - 10.30	Satu Hallikainen, The County Library of Lapland, Rovaniemi Building a sustainable library network and technology (e.g.KOHA) in the spirit of open standards, free software and open source
10.30 - 10.45	Coffee
10.45 - 11.00	Announcements
Session 7	Chair: Andie Smithies, Australian Antarctic Division
11.00 - 11.30	Allaina Howard, National Snow and Ice Data Center Shelly Sommer, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research Gloria Hicks, National Snow and Ice Data Center Can two nodes be a network? Cooperation helps two libraries provide better service
11.30 - 12.00	David Ongley, Tuzzy Consortium Library Julia Triplehorn, Keith B. Mather Library, University of Alaska BASC: A Research Center Grows in Barrow: UAF’s Geophysical Institute and Ilisagvik College’s Tuzzy Consortium Library Collude to Provide State of the Art Library Services to the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
12.00 - 12.30	Daria O. Carle, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage Juli Braund-Allen, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage Kathleen Murray, Health Sciences Information Service, University of Alaska Anchorage A Northern Network in the Making: Cooperation and Collaboration in Anchorage, Alaska
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch

Afternoon

14.00	Bus departs for the Italian Geographical Society
14.30 - 16.00	Visit to the Italian Geographical Society
16.00	Group picture

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Friday, May 12

Morning

Session 8	Chair: Ronald Inouye, Fairbanks, Alaska
9.00 - 9.30	Liisa Kurppa, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland Barents Information Portal and its improvement
9.30 - 10.00	Susan Grigg, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska's Digital Archives: From Vision to Reality
10.00 - 10.30	Allaina Howard, National Snow and Ice Data Center NOAA’s Climate Database Modernization Program at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
10.30 - 10.45	Coffee
10.45 - 11.00	Announcements
11.00 - 11.30	Mauro Alberti, Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide The Italian Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide "Felice Ippolito"
11.30 - 12.00	Film session: "Operation Tabarin in 1944-45 as an Antarctic component"
12.00 - 12.30	Film session: "Knud"
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch

Afternoon

13.30 - 14.00	Film session: "Antarctica" and "Conserving Mawson's Huts"
14.00 - 14.30	Discussion period
14.30 - 15.00	Closing remarks
17.00	Bus departs for the visit to the American Academy in Rome and the banquet
17.45 - 18.45	Visit to the Academy
18.45	Drinks in the Mercedes and Sid R. Bass Garden of the American Academy
20.30	Banquet at Villa Aurelia

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