Conference Opening Plenary Session

Conference Opening Plenary Session
June 5, Monday

CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY will take place at 20.15 in the Genoese Fortress

9.00-11.00 Plenary Session
SESSION 1
Tauria Conference Hall

Chairs:

Evgeny Kuzmin, Deputy Head, Department of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana Prokosheva, Head, Library and Information Networks Department, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Opening speech by:

Yakov Shraiberg, Chairman, “Crimea 2000” Conference Organizing Committee

Time for presentations - up to 30 minutes, including questions and answers - up to 5 minutes
1. IFLA’s Professional Activities: Present and Perspectives

Sjoerd Koopman, Coordinator of Professional Activities, IFLA, The Hague, The Netherlands

2. National Library Policy in Ukraine: New Visions

Tatyana Prokosheva, Head, Library and Information Networks Department, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

3. Government Information Strategy and Libraries: Problem of Cooperation

Evgeny Kuzmin, Deputy Head, Department of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

4. International Information Cooperation and Law: Tasks and Accomplishments of Russian Professional and Governmental Organizations

Vladimir Grachev, Member of the State Duma; Chairman, State Duma’s Ecology Committee; Advisory Council Member, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center, Moscow, Russia

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.30 PLENARY SESSION (continued)
5. Legal and Societal Problems in Modern Cyberspace

Victor Montviloff, Director, UNESCO Infoethics Program, Paris, France

6. Libraries, Publishers, and Booksellers in the Unified Information Field: New Ideology and New Technology

Yakov Shraiberg, First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; President, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center, Moscow, Russia

7. The Role of Public Organizations in Solving Professional Library Problems

Vladimir Zaitsev, President, Russian Library Association; Director, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia

8. Woman in a Changing World

Tatiana Kiseleva, Rector, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Moscow, Russia

9. Russia’s Ecological Safety as a Requisite for Steady Development in the XXI Century

Alexei Poryadin, First Deputy Chair, State Duma’s Environmental Protection Committee, Moscow, Russia

13.30-15.00 Lunch

14.20-15.00 PRESS CONFERENCE (FOR ACCREDITED JOURNALISTS ONLY)

Moderator:

Lyubov Kazachenkova, Head, Organizing Committee Press Center; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Biblioteka Journal; Moscow, Russia

Tauria Conference Hall

15.00-17.30 Plenary Session
SESSION 2

Chairs:

Victor Fedorov, Director, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

Alexei Onishchenko, Director General, V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Tauria Conference Hall

Time for presentations - up to 30 minutes, including questions and answers - up to 5 minutes
1. “Meeting on the Fromtiers” and International Cooperation in Digital Library: Library of Congres Point of View

John van Oudenaren, European Division Head, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA

2. Library Informatization: from Electronic Catalogs to Electronic Library

Alexander Visly, Director, Computer and Infirmation Center, Ministry of Culture f the Russian Federation; Deputy Director, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

3. Perspective Model of Economic and Information Interaction between Libraries and Publishers in Russia: Summary Subject Planning for Russian Publishing Houses

Vitaly Ivanov, General Director, Central Collector of Libraries, Moscow, Russia

4. Literature-Centrism and Informatization

Arkady Sokolov, Professor, St. Petersburg Humanitarian University, St. Petersburg, Russia

5. Integration of Scientific Information

Nikolai Kopelev, ISI Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Oleg Iguine, ISI Europe, Uxbridge, UK

17.30-18.00 EXHIBITION OPENING
Opening speech by:

Boris Marshak, First Deputy Chairman, “Crimea 2000” Conference Organizing Committee, Moscow, Russia

Exhibition Hall

18.00-19.00 DINNER

19.00 departure for the opening ceremony venue
from the main gate of Sudak Tourist and Health Center

20.15 CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY
The Genoese Fortress

Welcome by:

On behalf of Sudak Local Authorities

Anatoly Klavkin, Head of Sudak City Council

On behalf of the Municipality of Genoa (Italy)

Ruggero Pierantoni, Cultural Assessorship

On behalf of the Supreme Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine and the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Leonid Grach, Chair of the Supreme Rada (Parliament) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

On behalf of the Russian State Duma and Federation Council of the Federal Assembly (Parliament)

Vladimir Grachev, Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation; Chairman, State Duma’s Ecology Committee

On behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine

Bogdan Stupka, Minister

Tatyana Prokosheva, Head, Library and Information Networks Department

On behalf of the Russian Ministry of Culture

Mikhail Shvydkoi, Minister

Evgeny Kuzmin, Deputy Head, Department of Cultural Heritage; Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

On behalf of the International Organizing Committee

Lester Pourciau, Deputy Chair, Conference Organizing Committee

On behalf of the Russian Ministry of Science and Technologies

Yuri Yudintsev, Deputy Minister

Victoria Sokolovskaya, Leading Specialist

On behalf of the Russian Ministry for Publishing, TV and Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Communications

Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Minister

On behalf of the Open Society Institute - Russia (Soros Foundation)

Maria Vedenyapina, Executive Director, Pushkin Library Megaproject

On behalf of the International Renaissance Foundation (Soros Foundation), Ukraine

Evgeny Bystritsky, Director

On behalf of the British Council in Ukraine

Michael Bird, Director

On behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Mikhail Golubev, Minister

21.30 BANQUET-fourchette ON THE OCCASION OF THE CONFERENCE OPENING
On the territory of the Genoese Fortress

June 9, Friday, 15.00-19.30

15.00-16.00 Plenary Session
SESSION 3 (FINAL)

CHAIRS:

Vladimir Zaitsev, President, Russian Library Association; Director, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ekaterina Genieva, Vice-President, Russian Library Association; President, Open Society Institute - Russia (Soros Foundation); Director General, M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia

Tauria Conference Hall

Time for presentations - up to 20 minutes, including questions and answers - up to 5 minutes
1. OCLC: Serving the Global Library Community

Joan Mitchell, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief OCLC Forest Press, Dublin, OH/Washington, D.C., USA

2. The Role of ILIAC in International Professional Cooperation in Librarianship, Information, and Education?

Lester Pourciau, Vice-President, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center; Associate Editor of International Issues and Activities, Library Hi Tech News, Memphis, TN, USA

3. Russian Libraries and International Information and Intellectual Space in the Third Millennium

Monika Segbert, Manager, TACIS Project in the Russian State Library; TACIS Program, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

16.00-19.30 OFFICIAL CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE

16.00-17.15 part 1. CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS. DISCUSSION Round Table
Tauria Conference Hall

Moderators:

Evgeny Kuzmin, Deputy Head, Cultural Heritage Department, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana Prokosheva, Head, Library and Information Networks Department, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Communications by:

Evgeny Kuzmin, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Zaitsev, Russian Library Association, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ekaterina Genieva, Open Society Institute - Russia (Soros Foundation), M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana Prokosheva, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Lester Pourciau, International Organizing Committee, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center (ILIAC), Memphis, TN, USA

Tatyana Kiseleva, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Moscow, Russia

Sjoerd Koopman, IFLA, Professional Board, The Hague, The Netherlands

Absalom Umarov, Alisher Navoi National Library, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Monika Segbert, Manager, TACIS Project in the Russian State Library; TACIS Program, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Closing speech by:

Yakov Shraiberg, Chairman, “Crimea 2000” and “Crimea 2001” Conferences Organizing Committee

17.30-19.30 Part 2. RESULTS OF CONTESTS AND NOMINATIONS. AWArDS to winners. FINAL COMMUNICATIONS
Summer Cinema

20.30 BANQUET ON THE OCCASION OF THE CONFERENCE CLOSING
Consul Restaurant Esplanade