19:00

DINNER

Restaurant at Ani Plaza Hotel

19 Sayat Nova Avenue

(www.anihotel.com/catering.html)

09:00 – 09:05

Welcome by Gintare Tautkevičienė, Chairperson, EIFL Advisory Board

09:05 – 09:15

Welcome by President of American University of Armenia (AUA)

09:15 – 09:35

Welcome by the Minister of Culture of Armenia

09:35 – 10:05

Keynote Speaker:  Michael W. Carroll, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, USA

As the open access movement enters its second decade, focus on the promise of access for development is important. This talk will address the challenges and opportunities for contributing to development that the open access movement faces.

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

10:05 – 10:35

Tigran Zargaryan, Director, National Library of Armenia

“Partnering with EIFL in building a national Armenian Repository for Education and Research - the path to success” 

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

10:35 – 11:00

NETWORKING BREAK

11:00 – 13:00   E-Books

Moderators:

Susanna Lob, EIFL-Licensing Programme Manager

Arnold Hirshon, University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University

This moderated session will focus on academic e-books and monographs of scholarly interest, and cover the technical and legal aspects as well as issues regarding content.

11:00 – 12:00

E-books: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost and University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University, USA

The presentation will provide an overview of the key issues that librarians and consortium managers need to consider concerning the adoption of e-books.  The session will explore the current e-book marketplace, centering around four key topic areas: (1) e-book platforms (types of devices, publication formats and standards, operating systems, and infrastructure), (2) content (focusing primarily on purchased scholarly e-books, with some discussion of trade and other e-book publications, including a discussion of language of content, usage statistics and preservation issues), (3) purchasing (including purchase options such as commercial and university press aggregators, title-by-title purchase, demand-driven acquisitions, licenses and ownership, and annual subscriptions), and (4) policies and practices (such as e-book and device lending and reserves). 

 PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

12:00 – 13:00

Panel Discussion

GA attendees will be invited to participate in a dialog with the panel about the current state of, and special issues regarding, the adoption of e-books in EIFL member countries.  Panel members will include:

Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration and Manager of Project Databases, Lithuanian Research Library Consortium and Lithuania EIFL Country Coordinator

Gintare Tautkevičienė, Head of Information Services Department, Library of Kaunas University of Technology, EIFL Advisory Board Chair and Lithuania EIFL OA Coordinator

Irina Ramuzova, Deputy Director, National Electronic Information Consortium and Russia EIFL Country Coordinator

Marika Meltsas, Head of Department, Estonian Research Council and Estonia EIFL Country Coordinator

Kathy Matsika, University Librarian, National University of Science and Technology, and Zimbabwe EIFL Country Coordinator and EIFL Advisory Board Member

Julita Madzio, Regional Sales Manager, Eastern Europe, Online Products & Journals, Oxford University Press

Teresa Hackett, EIFL-IP Programme Manager

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00    OA academic book publishing

Moderator:  Iryna Kuchma, EIFL-OA Programme Manager

14:00 – 14:20

Introduction

Ronald Snijder, Project Manager Digital Publications, OAPEN  Foundation, The Netherlands

Introduction to the topic and presentation of Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN).

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

14:20 – 14:40

Case Study: University of Tartu, Estonia

Elena Sipria-Mironov, Project Manager, University of Tartu Library

“Estonian language digital textbook - the project that initiated Open Access ideas”

Powerpoint Presentation [PDF format]

14:40 – 15:00

Questions/Discussions

15:00 – 15:30

NETWORKING BREAK

15:30 – 17:00

Speed-dating I (1.5 hours)

19:00

DINNER

Ararat Hall

Yeznik Koghbatsi St., Building 30

(www.atb.am/en/tourist/city/restaurants/araratholl/)

09:30 – 10:10

EIFL update

Rima Kupryte, Director, EIFL

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

10:10 – 11:50   Digitisation

Moderator:  Arnold Hirshon, University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Digitalising scholarly content from libraries in developing countries: a potentially new EIFL initiative

10:10 – 10:30

Presentation on Digitisation

Arnold Hirshon, University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University, USA

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

10:30 – 10:50

Small Group Breakout

Topic: How can member countries best position themselves to participate?

10:50 – 11:20

NETWORKING BREAK

11:20 – 12:00    Consortia and Public Libraries

Moderator:  Monika Elbert, EIFL-Consortium Management Programme Manager

In this session we would like to explore synergies between EIFL library consortia, which are mostly focused on academic institutions, and public libraries. 

11:00 – 11:35

Case Study: Consortium of Slovene Electronic Collections (COSEC)

Katja Rapus, e-resource coordinator, National and University Library and Slovenia EIFL Licensing Coordinator

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

11:35 – 11:50

Case Study: Lithuanian Academic Libraries Consortium LMBA

Aušra Vaškevičienė, Head of Administration and Manager of Project Databases, Lithuanian Research Library Consortium and Lithuania EIFL Country Coordinator

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

11:50 – 12:00

Questions/Discussions

12:00 – 13:00    Advocacy – Parallel sessions

Track 1

Consortia advocacy

Moderators:  Monika Elbert, EIFL-Consortium Management Programme Manager

Rosemary Otando, E-Resources Librarian, University of Nairobi and Kenya EIFL Country and OA Coordinator

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

Kathy Matsika, University Librarian, National University of Science and Technology and Zimbabwe EIFL Country Coordinator and Advisory Board Member

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

Ania Lech, Sales Manager, SAGE

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

In this session we will hear case studies from Kathy Matsika (Zimbabwe University Library Consortium- ZULC) and Rosemary Otando (Kenya Library Consortia KLISC) on their advocacy activities, - advocacy meaning the actions taken by organisations or individuals to influence decision making at the institutional or national level that help create a desired policy or funding change in support of libraries or consortia. Recent research on how academic libraries prove their value will be presented by Ania Lech (SAGE).

Track 2

Open Access advocacy

Moderators:  Iryna Kuchma, EIFL-Open Access Programme Manager

Gintare Tautkevičienė, Head of Information Services Department, Library of Kaunas University of Technology, EIFL Advisory Board Chair and Lithuania EIFL OA Coordinator

PowerPoint Presentation [PDF format]

Elena Sipria-Mironov, Project Manager, University of Tartu Library and Estonia EIFL OA Coordinator

This session will focus on reaching out to different stakeholders (other than librarians) and building partnerships to advocate for open access.

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30

Speed-dating II (1.5 hours)

15:30 – 18:30

OPTIONAL:

Cultural Events: Matenadaran - the repository of ancient manuscripts OR  'Zvartnots' Cathedral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvartnots_Cathedral) historical place (some7 km far from Yerevan)

OR

Special meeting with EIFL staff to discuss country situation

19:00

DINNER (with Armenia Folk Music): co-sponsored by EBSCO

Tavern Yerevan - Amiryan

St. Amiryan, 5

(www.pandokyerevan.am/)

09:00 – 10:30

Unconference – Parallel sessions

Facilitator:  Iryna Kuchma, EIFL-Open Access Programme Manager

Topics to be determined based on interests

10:30 – 11:00

NETWORKING BREAK

11:00 – 12:45

Speed-dating III (1.75 hours)

12:45 – 14:00

LUNCH

14:00 – 18:00

Cultural visit of Garni and Geghard

Garni and Geghard are two towns located southeast of Yerevan.  The farthest of the two, Geghard is about 37km (23 miles).  Garni is best known for the Hellenistic Garni temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garni) and Geghard contains an ancient monastery that is partial carved out of the mountain and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geghard).

18:30

DINNER: co-sponsored by Emerald