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Wednesday May 20th 1998

General Perception and Financing of Information Services
session chairman: Vojtech Balik, Czech National Library

9:30 - 12:00 Astronomical Hall

Opening

Michal Prokop, Parliament of the Czech Republic

Electronic Information in the Next Millennium: The New Landscape

Tim Owen, London Research Centre, Great Britain

The Value and Impact of Library and Information Services

Barbara J. Buckley, The British Library, Great Britain

12:00 - 13:00 Coffee Break

13:00 - 15:00 contd.

The Austrian National Library: From Manusccripts to Cyberspace

Hans Marte, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Austria

National Bibliographic Services

Dusan Katuscak, Comenius University, Slovakia

Infomedia '98 Awards

Infomedia Organization Comittee

Panel Discussion: Information Specialist and the Society

directed by Rudolf Vlasak, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30 contd.

Documentation of Scientific Activities - "Pro Scientia" Project

Stefan Kimlicka, Comenius University, Slovakia 

Ultra*Net version 3.x - CD-ROM server for Intranets a Internet

Vladimir Karen, Albertina icome Praha

 

Thursday 21st - morning sessions

New Trends and Technologies In Information Resources
session chairman: Vladimir Karen, Albertina icome Praha

8:30 - 10:30 Astronomical Hall

Publishing Electronic Periodicals on the Internet: Experiences with the "Ikaros" Webzine

Petra Jedlickova, Ikaros

What Is It "Virtual Albertina"? Part I - Part II

Jan Mottl, Tomas Mayer, Albertina icome Praha

Telenor CR - Satelite Services Provider

Jiri Stastny

Libero, the New Generation of Cost-Effective True Client/Server Library Automatisation System

Dagmar Causley, Jeremy Causley, Libero, Germany

Union Cataloguing of Czech Public Libraries

Jiri Silha, LANius

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 contd.

SilverPlatter's Approach to Full Content: ERL 4 and SilverLinker

Reiner Klimesch, SilverPlatter Information, Germany

New Generation of Services form Albertina icome Praha Electronic Publishing Dept.

Stanislav Psohlavec, Albertina icome Praha

The Internet as a Source of Sci-tech Information - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' Experience

Mark Furneaux, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Great Britain

Challenge of Media Society (brief about the prepared Seminar of Comparative Media Studies of the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship)

Sasa Skenderija, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University  



Social Sciences and Humanities
session chairman: Daniela Gondova, Comenius University, Central Library of Faculty of Philosophy, Slovakia

8:30 - 10:00 Cinema Hall

The Position of the Library in the University Information System

Daniela Gondova, Comenius University, Central Library of Faculty of Philosophy, Slovakia

Market and Public Opinion Research as an Information Resources for Prognostics

Tomas Raiter, STEM/mark

Internet Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Catherine Sealey, Chadwyck-Healey, Great Britain

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 contd.

Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases by H.W.Wilson Company for Social Sciences And the Humanities: Searching the WilsonWeb

Eva Bratkova, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University

OmniFile Full Text Databases: Effective Access Tools to the Core Primary Source Titles in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Andrea Cernichiari, The H.W.Wilson Company, USA

Full Text Multi-Disciplinary Databases from Information Access Company

Rhiannon James, Information Access Company, Great Britain
 

Thursday 21st - afternoon sessions

Science, Chemistry and Technology
session chairman: Svatopluk Rieger, Information Center of Palacky University Olomouc, Bob Bocek, Medistyl

13:30 - 15:30 Astronomical Hall

Chemical Information on the Internet

Svatopluk Rieger, Palacky University Information Centre; Miriam Vachova, DEZA a.s. Valasske Mezirici

From User Stations to Power Stations: Dialog Provides!

Sjoerd Vogt, The Dialog Corporation, Great Britain

Searching for Sci-tech Information via CSA's Internet Database Service (IDS)

Mark Furneaux, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,Great Britain

Experience With A Personal Bibliographic Database in A Multidisciplinary Field

Petr Ilik, Palacky University Olomouc

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 contd.

Enhanced Access to Sci-Tech Information with Ovid Search Software: the Databases And the Technology

Linda Empringham, Ovid Technologies, The Netherlands

CAB Access and Current Awareness on the Internet

Reiner Klimesch, SilverPlatter Information, Germany  



Information on the European Union
session chairman: Jitka Hradilova, European Documentation Centre

13:30 - 15:30 Cinema Hall

Trends in European Union Information Policy

Ian Thomson, European Information Association, Great Britain

The Role of EC Delegation in Prague in Spreading Information about the Euin the Czech Republic

David Ringrose, EC Delegation in Prague

European Documentation Centre at the Charles University - a Resource of the EU Information

Jitka Hradilova, European Documentation Centre

The Network of EURO INFO Centers at the Service of the Enterprise Sphere

Marie Pavlu, Euro Info Centrum Prague

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 contd.

EURODATA Database on the Internet

Barbora Krutakova, CERGE EI

EU law databases - Are You Missing Something?

John Love, Context, Great Britain
 

Friday May 22nd - morning sessions

Business & Economics
session chairman: Jiri Kadlecek, Dr. Kadlecek Online


8:30 - 10:00 Astronomical Hall

Data, Information and Culture

Jaroslav Jirasek, Czech Management Centre

Methods of Competitive Intelligence Using the Internet

Richard Papik, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University

Looking for Success in Business? Dialog is the Answer!

Sjoerd Vogt, The Dialog Corporation, Great Britain

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 contd.

Full Text Business Databases from Information Access Company

Rhiannon James, Information Access Company, Great Britain

Business Databases Online and on CD-ROM from UMI, the Answer Company

Nick Turner, UMI, Great Britain



Biomedicine, Health Care & Pharmacology
session chairman: Jarmila Potomkova, Medical Faculty, Palacky University Olomouc


8:30 - 10:30
Cinema Hall

Academic Libraries in Transition - Tips & Tricks

Milan Spala, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University

Accessibility of Pharmaceutical Information in the Czech Republic

Rostislav Kudlacek, State Institute for Drug Control

Medical Databases Online and on CD-ROM from UMI, the Answer Company

Nick Turner, UMI, Great Britain

Trying to Cure your Information Problems? Take a Health Check with Dialog!

Sjoerd Vogt, The Dialog Corporation, Great Britain

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 contd.

Access the Complete Biomedical Research Environment: Databases, Full Text and Clinical Information Products from Ovid

Linda Empringham, Ovid Technologies, Netherlands

Towards the Most Comprehensive Digital Medical Library

Reiner Klimesch, SilverPlatter Information, Germany

Circulation of Scientific Information

Miroslava Safarova, Medical Faculty of the Masaryk University Brno  




All conference sessions will be simultaneously translated from Czech to English and vice versa.

The programme is subject to change witout notice.