IAOL

AGENDA of the meeting of the IAOL at the XXXVI ICANAS


PLACE: Montreal Convention Center (Palais des Congrès de Montréal)
ADDRESS: 201, Viger Avenue West. The Montreal Convention Center is located above Place d'Armes Subway Station.
ROOM: 411C (4th floor)
DATE: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
TIME: 9:30 am to 5 pm
GENERAL CONFERENCE URL http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca/icanas/

Our logo and graphical alert for the meeting in Montreal!

9:30: Greeting to IAOL members and participants (Thomas H. Hahn)

9:45: BUSINESS SESSION
 Introduction of Meri Trifonenko and Sergei Kazantsev as new IAOL officers
IAOL finances - a short statistical overview
IAOL Bulletin - editing and publishing procedures
IAOL Website - introduction to the new homepage
Other items of business

10:30 Short break

10:45 - 12:00 PRESENTATIONS SESSION I

10:45: Meri Trifonenko and Sergei Kazantsev (Oriental Libray, Russian State Library, Moscow):
"Printed Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library" + an announcement of the next volume (to be published in 2000).
11:20: Lesley Forbes (Oxford, Bodleian Library):
"Recent improvements in library provision for Asian and North African Studies in the UK"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch break (Restaurant in Chinatown)

1:30 - 3:00 PRESENTATIONS SESSION II

1:30 Jean-Pierre Drege (Paris, École française d'Extrême-Orient)
"Le Livre Illustrée [Chinoise] - du manuscrit à l'imprimé"
2:15: Thomas H. Hahn (Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin/Madison):
"DC metadata, UniCode and the Digital Asia Library Project - a collaborative project in the Social Sciences"

3:00 - 16:30 EXCURSION

3 pm: Mrs. Salwa Ferahian invited all IAOL members and participants for a tour of the famous Islamic Studies Library (ISL) of McGill University. The address is Morrice Hall, McGill University, 3485 McTavish Street, Montreal. We will either walk or take public transport to the ISL in the afternoon, where we are expected at around 3 pm.