Proposed Events

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Conference on
Government Information and Democracy
2nd IFLA GIOPS Eastern Europe Seminar on
Government Information for the People

Meeting within the Tenth International Crimea Conference
of Information Professionals and Educators

Crimea 2003
Sudak
9-13 June

under the sponsorship of the
International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions
Government Information and Official Publications Section

Short papers (15-20 minutes) are especially invited in the following fields:

International information and the citizen: United Nations and European documents as a resource for democracy
Government information at the local level in countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
The vanishing public record: electronic formats and the availability of information for government accountability
Democracy building activities of parliamentary and national libraries
Government censorship and the filtering of public information
Freedom of information legislation, investigative journalism and libraries
Media images, propaganda, and their impact on democracy
Librarians and terrorism: the ethical principles of information access
The Internet as a public information medium for democracy
Teaching democracy and civic values through the study of government information in the school

Brief abstracts (40-50 words) in Russian or English to the conference convenors by 25 March 2003:

Vladimir R. Firsov (Russian National Library, St. Petersburg) Mail to: v.firsov@nlr.ru
Francis T. Kirkwood (Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada) Mail to: kirkwf@parl.gc.ca

Accepted papers (3-6 pages in Microsoft Word) due by 15 April 2003 for publication in the proceedings.

Crimea 2003 information and registration
http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2003