8:15 - 9:00 Registration
9:00-11:00 Session I
Session
Chairman: Vojtich Balík, Director, Czech National
Library
9:00-9:10 Conference Opening
Vladimír Karen, Albertina
icome Praha s.r.o.
9:10-9:55 The Role of Public Libraries in the Information Society - Helsinki City Library as an Example
Sirkka Elina Svedberg, Deputy Library
Director, Helsinki City Library, Finland
9:55-10:15 KR-ONDISC a KR@SITE
Sjoerd Vogt, Knight-Ridder Information,
Great Britain
10:15-11:00 Scientific and Scholarly Information Methods Today and in the Future
Jaroslav Šilhánek, University
of Chemical Technology, Praha
11:00-11:30 Coffee
Break
11:30-13:00 Session II
Session
Chairman: Ivana Kadlecová, Main Library of the Czech Academy
of Sciences
11:30-12:00 Global Information Infrastructure as a Metaphor for the Future
Jitka Hurych, Founders Memorial Library,
Northern Illinois University, USA
Rhiannon James, Information Access
Company, Great Britain
12:20-12:40 UMI: The Answer Company
Elaine Chalmers-Brown, UMI, Great
Britain
12:40-13:00 Librarians of All Nations, Unite!
Stanislav Psohlavec, Albertina icome
Praha s.r.o.
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Break
14:30-16:20 Session III
Session
Chairman: Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o.
14:30-15:00 Internet & Electronic Services at the State Technical Library - Integrated Virtual Library
Saša Skenderija, State Technical
Library, Praha
15:00-15:20 Java Technology & the Delivery of Ovid Full Text Information
Jim Drier, Ovid Technologies, Great
Britain
15:20-15:40 The Best of Both Worlds - Electronic Access to Microform Collections
Katri
Deißroth, Primary Source Media, Germany
15:40-16:00 SilverPlatter - Technology with the Future Built-In
Kevin Morrissey, SilverPlatter Information,
Great Britain
16:00-16:20 Gale - Helping Libraries Prepare for the 21st Century
David Bateson, Gale Research, Great
Britain
16:20-16:30 Closing