Date: August 14-15, 2013, associated to the 79th Annual IFLA conference in Singapore (August 17-23, 2013)
Venue: The Arnoma Hotel Bangkok, Thailand
This is the first IFLA Satellite Meeting in Bangkok, and we hope that you will join in to help us map out the future and address some of the big issues facing on conservation, preservation and digitization of children's cultural heritage in the world.
The conference agenda includes a mix of keynotes and themed paper sessions presented by leading researchers in the field.
Barbara K. Stripling
Barbara Stripling is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. In her 35-year library career, Stripling has been Director of Library Services for the New York City schools and a school library media specialist and school district director of libraries in Arkansas, a library grant program director in Tennessee, and director of library programs at a local education fund in New York City. She received her Doctorate in Information Management from Syracuse University in May 2011 and has written or edited numerous books and articles. Stripling is a former president of the American Association of School Librarians and is the 2013-2014 President of the American Library Association.
Howard Besser
Howard Besser is Director of Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA Program, New York University. He has been involved with digital preservation for more than 15 years, has taught classes and dozens of workshops on the subject, and has published numerous articles on it. In 2009 he was named to the Library of Congress' select list of "Pioneers of Digital Preservation". He has also been involved in the creation of several library metadata standards (PREMIS, Dublin Core, METS), and has published more than 50 articles dealing with technology and cultural institutions.
Session One: Preserving and Digitizing Children’s Book Collections
Silvija Tretjakova
Silvija Tretjakova holds various positions in the field; she is working for Children’s and School Libraries section, Library Association of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia. She is also head of Children's literature Centre, National Library of Latvia, President of Library Association of Latvia and Liaison Officer of the IBBY Latvian Section.
She has been working at the National Library of Latvia since 1979, and become an advisor to Children’s Libraries in 1984. She has acquired a Master Degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Latvia in 1996.
Her greatest achievements in the field of libraries include the development and successful implementation of the reading promotion program in Latvia. The program involves 17000 children each year from the age of 6-18. At present, Silvija Tretjakova is President of Library Association of Latvia. Starting in 1992, she has been actively participating at several international activities. She is also an author of more than 40 publications of library journals in Latvia and other countries.
Marine Planche
Marine Planche is a Senior Librarian. She has worked at Kandinsky Art Library in Paris and on library cooperation issues at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). She works now at the National Centre for Children's Literature at the BnF, where she is in charge of digitizing projects and training programmed.
Ikumi Crocoll
Ikumi Crocoll is a graduate student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She is specializing in Archives and Records Management and currently works as a University Library Associate with the University of Michigan Special Collections Library and Preservation & Conservation Department.
Kathleen Scullin
is graduate student in the University of Michigan's School of Information. She is studying Preservation of Information and has a particular interest in digitization projects and increasing online access to rare and fragile materials.
Enrique Valdivia test
is a graduate student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is specializing in Library and Information Science and Preservation of Information. He is interested in digitizing colonial era Mexican manuscripts and is collaborating on the Digital Humanities project, An online digital transcription, translation, and annotation of Córdova's 1578 Arte en lengua zapoteca.
Silvija Tretjakova
Silvija Tretjakova holds various positions in the field; she is working for Children’s and School Libraries section, Library Association of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia. She is also head of Children's literature Centre, National Library of Latvia, President of Library Association of Latvia and Liaison Officer of the IBBY Latvian Section.
She has been working at the National Library of Latvia since 1979, and become an advisor to Children’s Libraries in 1984. She has acquired a Master Degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Latvia in 1996.
Her greatest achievements in the field of libraries include the development and successful implementation of the reading promotion program in Latvia. The program involves 17000 children each year from the age of 6-18. At present, Silvija Tretjakova is President of Library Association of Latvia. Starting in 1992, she has been actively participating at several international activities. She is also an author of more than 40 publications of library journals in Latvia and other countries.
Marine Planche
Marine Planche is a Senior Librarian. She has worked at Kandinsky Art Library in Paris and on library cooperation issues at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). She works now at the National Centre for Children's Literature at the BnF, where she is in charge of digitizing projects and training programmed.
Ikumi Crocoll
Ikumi Crocoll is a graduate student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She is specializing in Archives and Records Management and currently works as a University Library Associate with the University of Michigan Special Collections Library and Preservation & Conservation Department.
Zahira Jabir Dadashova
Zahira Jabir Dadashova was born in the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan, and graduated in the field of library science and bibliography in Baku State University in 1981. Since then, she has been working in the F. Kocharli National Children's Library, and has served as the library's deputy director for scientific affairs since 1992. During 33 years in the promotion of children's books, she has been working on various projects including “Internet Classrooms for Children” (Soros 2001), "Creation of multi-media hall"-Soros-2003, “AIDS-related training lectures to educate young people in 20 schools”, "Caravan Book" project, to help rural libraries and rural children, Children's literature through the action of reading, "Pearls in The World of Children's Literature" exhibition in cooperation with the embassies in Azerbaijan, The National Book organization exhibitions, Book holidays and festivals.
She also participates in various round-table discussions and conferences in the development of children's literature, publishers, writers, artists; she has participated in international conferences in Crimea, Lipetsk, London, and so on.
"Let's Protect Our National Treasures- May Our Stories Live On!" Project was awarded honors by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Evangeline Ledi Barongo
Evangeline Ledi Barongo is a founding member of the Uganda Children's Writers and Illustrators Association (UCWIA) and member of the Reading Association of Uganda (RAU), and the Uganda Library and Information Association (ULIA). She has also served on the board of the National Book Trust of Uganda (NABOTU) since its formation in 1997. She has attended conferences, delivered scholarly papers at several conferences that are connected with young people and reading, and contributed articles in journals. She has been involved in other reading promotion activities such as organizing reading tents and exhibitions, to mention but a few. She has been hosted at local, national, and regional functions that are held at various schools and clubs, as well as at community centres both in Uganda and abroad.
Renowned as an author, Barongo has written and published books in English and in Runyoro, her mother tongue, in Uganda and abroad. One of her books has been translated into several languages in Africa and Europe. Her books have won several awards in the book community at local and international levels, including The NABOTU Children's Author of the Year (in 2004 and 2008). Evangeline Ledi Barongo has now retired from active civil service but runs a bookshop in Hoima and continues to write for children and in reading promotion activities.
Maud Hell
Maud Hell is a member of The Swedish Library Association, which is one of IFLA networks. She had worked as a public and school librarian, and at the Schools Library Service Center in the City Library of Lund, Sweden, for more than 25 years. Her main research/professional topic is school libraries; she has written her master degree´s thesis on the subject of school library quality. Maud Hell has also written two books in Swedish on the topic: a handbook for beginners and a book about school library development, with translations of Ross Todd and other texts. Her third book about author visits has been published in 2012.
Surekha Panadiker
Surekha Panadiker is a well-known writer and story-teller for children from India who has more than 70 books published including picture books, story books, novels, and collection of short stories. She writes in English, Hindi, and Marathi. One of her books "Bridge at Borin" has been made into a children's film, titled "Chhota Sipahi" by Children’s Film Society of INDIA.
She is a convener of AWIC Children Library Project that won the International IBBY ASAHI reading promotion award in 1991. At present there are 170 children libraries being organised under this project. She was the convener of the first International Conference on Children's Libraries, held in 2010 in New Delhi. Surekha has also developed "A Guide for Creating Children's Library' which has been published in English and Hindi by UNICEF. She has represented India in many international conferences on storytelling and promoting reading habits in children.
Wajuppa Tossa
Dr. Wajuppa Tossa has taught at Mahasarakham University Thailand since 1978. As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, she taught at Drew University, University of Hawaii, and University of Oregon in 1992 and 1998. Trained under Dr.Margaret Read Macdonald, she tells Thai2Lao folktales to revitalize their storytelling tradition. She has performed and taught in USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Iran, Scotland, Norway, and Indonesia. Her publications include Phadaeng Nang Ai and Phya Khankhaak, the Toad King (1990, 1996), Lao Folktales (2008) and parts of telling tales of Southeast Asia and Korea (2011). As a research fellow at Asian Civilization Museum (ACM) during SeptemberDecember 2012, she is currently working on her research project "Literacy Allusions in ACM's Fortunetelling Manuscript, Tamra Phrommachat from Thailand".
Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj
Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj is an educational consultant, author and storyteller. Her special focus has beenintegrating storytelling to textbook learning. She has been storytelling to children suffering fromcancer using her handmade puppets, as she believes that storytelling is an excellent therapy. She was involved in a “Reading to Recovery,” programmed for the Tsunami orphans in Nagapattinam (2005). She has authored a number of children’s books, and written research-oriented articles on children’s literature.
She is a life member of The Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC), a New Delhi based NGO. She has showcased traditional Indian storytelling at the IBBY World Congress at Cape Town, South Africa, presented a paper on “Reading to Children in Crises” at the 31 IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2008, and presented paper on “Borderless Tales ...Impacting Young Minds” in the 33rd IBBY World Congress London, UK in 2012.
Michiko Ishikawa
Michiko Ishikawa is an advisory staff and founding member of Kanagawa Children’s Plaza. She has long been a lecturer at many public libraries such as Yokohama City Central Library, Muroran City Library in Hokkaido and so on. She gives talks and plays with children and parents in many places including the disaster-stricken area in Tohoku, Iwate Prefecture, offers lectures for volunteers at many Kindergartens and Elementary Schools in Japan.
Michiko Ishikawa is also an author and editor of a number of literacy works including Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes: Agarime Sagarime, Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes: Antagatadokosa, Picture Book of Child Verse: Isshoniutatte (Let’s Sing Together), Picture Book of Child Verse: Ippaiutatte (Let’s Sing Many Songs) and Guidebook of Picture Books for 0 to six years old: Bokuno Ehon Watashino Ehon (Picture Books for Boys and Girls).
Pornanong Niyomka Horikawa
Pornanong Niyomka Horikawa has actively involved with children’s picture books’ publishing since 1993 as an editor, translator and author. She is a translator of more than 40 books. She is also an author of nine picture books for children, and won several awards for her works. She has been the Secretary General of the Thai Section of IBBY since 2001 and initiated the BookStart Project and many reading promotion programs in Thailand.
Teresa Brook
Teresa Brook is currently the Acting Manager Application & Network Services at Public Library Services (PLS), which is a business unit of The Libraries Board of South Australia with responsibility for the planning, development and management of ICT network & application services for the SA Public Library network, with a particular emphasis on the One LMS project and ongoing and future requirements.
In her previous role as Manager Public Library Programs Teresa was responsible for providing support and services to the States 130+ public libraries, including marketing, procurement of library materials and ongoing training and development for library staff. The role is responsible for a variety of state-wide projects such as National Year of Reading, Digital content and Little Big Book Club early literacy project. Teresa also represents the South Australian Public Library network on a number of national boards and committees, The Big Book Club, MyLanguage Consortium and Round Table on Print Disability.
Teresa is a qualified librarian and has recently completed the Public Sector Management Course.
Jo McGill
Jo McGill is Director of the Northern Territory Library and the Northern Territory Archives Service. Both entities are responsible for ensuring the memory of the Northern Territory is well collected and preserved. Since 2003, Jo has worked to ensure that Aboriginal culture is better represented in the collection.
Northern Territory Library won the 2007 ATLA award for its pioneering work connecting Aboriginal Australians with Information Technology; the organization is committed to ensuring the Northern Territory’s cultural heritage is captured, preserved and made accessible to today’s population and for the generations to come.
Samar Qutob
Samar Qutob has been working with Tamer Institute since 2009 as the coordinator for community libraries’ network. She has possessed a long experience in capacity building programs for libraries, as well as programs for enriching the librarian’s experiences.
Dr. Zahra Abazari
Dr. Zahra Abazari is an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science of Department, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Iran (IAU). She has conducted more than 60 theses in the fields in topics of children literature, information literacy, knowledge management, academic libraries, information technology and public libraries, and three theses for PhD students. Dr Zahra translated and published more than 40 articles, three books translated as well as an author of one book.
Mitra Samiee
Mitra Samiee is a Fellow Member of NLAI and of the Iranian Library and Information Science Association. She obtained a BA degree in Library and Information Science in 1998, MA in Library and Information Science in 2002 and PhD in Library and Information Science in 2010. She is a prominent researcher, university lecturer and in charge of HARAM (i.e. National Digital Memory) project’s standards and digital content in the NLAI. She is a website manager of the Department of Iranian & Islamic Study Researches of the NLAI and a visiting lecturer at the Management Faculty, Tehran University, National Library’s Administration Department, the Organization of Management and Country Planning, Azad University of Iran, Broadcasting Company of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the Iranian Library and Information Science Association.
She is written 27 papers and 2 books which are published in Iran. Her research interests include digital libraries, digital preservation, PREMIS and its usage in digital libraries, and data security and so on.
