VTLS Training Seminars
08:00
Registration
08:30-12:00
<Lunch Break>
13:30-17:00
Seminar I
Customizing Your Portal
Seminar II
Advances In Virtua
Seminar III
Virtua Systems Internals
Seminar IV
VITAL
Seminar V
Pre-conference Program: Special VTLS Workshop for Slovak Librarians
19:00
Library Reception
Top of the Page
09:00
Welcome
§ Gunhild Bäck
Uppsala University Library Chair, VTLS European Users’ Group
§ PhDr. František Gahér, CSc.
Rector of Comenius University
Keynote Speaker
§ Topic: Jan Amos Komensky - Teacher of Nations
Speaker: Professor Jaroslav Šúšol
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts
Comenius University
10:00
Coffee Break
10:30
Business Meeting
11:00
VTLS Presentation I
§ VTLS Company News
Jack Bazuzi Managing Director, VTLS Europe
§ Virtua Development
Murielle Voide Business Development Librarian
§ VITAL Development
Heather Myers VITAL Product Manager
12:00
Lunch
13.30
Show & Tell I
§ The ARROW Project : Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
David Groenewegen ARROW Project Manager & ARCHER Project Director, Monash University
14:10
VTLS Presentation II
§ New OPAC and Focus Group Dr. Vinod Chachra President and CEO, VTLS Inc. VITAL Development
§ Digital Library and Repository Trends
Mike Eberhardt Business Development Manager
Sun Microsystems
15:00
15:30 – 16:30
Workshop I (chair in brackets)
§ OPAC & VECTORS (Camilla Gillén)
§ Circulation (Lena Isaksson)
§ Cataloguing & Authority Control (Claire Dupont)
§ Acquisitions (Birgitta Andreasson)
§ Serials (Christiane Schmidt)
§ Systems (Jana Ilavska)
§ VITAL (Benoît Erken)
17:30
VTLS and SUN Microsystems Reception
EUG 08 participants are invited for a cruise on the Danube. The boat has a limited capacity for 120 people, so please register early and let us know if you wish to go on this cruise.
Workshop II (chair in brackets)
Open Sessions
§ Translations SIG
§ Customer Services Open Room
§ VITAL Open Room
§ Visualizer and other VTLS Web Interfaces Open Room
§ Development Open Room
§ SUN Microsystems Open Room
§ EBSCO Open Room
13:30
Show and Tell II
§ Virtua at NLW : the story of a roller-coaster ride …
Jean Jones, System & Data Manager National Library of Wales
§ The MakLIBIS Project : Implementation of Virtua at Makerere University Library, Uganda
Walter Omona Information Specialist/Librarian Makerere University Library
§ Implementation of Virtua at Six Nigerian University Libraries : Challenges and Successes
Susan Schnuer Associate Director Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:30
VTLS Closing Presentation
§ View From The Top - Trends in Libraries
Dr. Vinod Chachra President and CEO VTLS Inc.
16:15
Adjournment
Informal weekend activities – tours, castle visits etc. Plans to be announced at a later date.
