3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN DIGITAL LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES (ICADLA-3) DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN AFRICA: CHANGING

LIVES AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES, 30 -31 May 2013. VENUE:

AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY, IFRANE, MOROCCO

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
*Subject to change*

THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013

Time 08:00 - 09:00 Activity Registration

WELCOME AND OPENING

VENUE FACILITATOR

9:00 10:30

Boardroom Abdelhamid Lotfi, Mohammed VI Library Director, Al Akhawayn University

Time 09:00 - 09:15 09:15 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:30

Activity Welcome Address Driss OUAOUICHA, President, Al Akhawayn University Opening Address Ministry of Higher Education, Morocco

Keynote Address Misako Ito (UNESCO Office for Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia)
Refreshment Break/Networking/opening of Exhibitions

10:30 11:00

PANEL DISCUSSION
VENUE FACILITATOR

CREATING A GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY

11:00 12:45

Boardroom Martin Kalfatovic, Associate Director, Smithsonian Libraries/Program Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library

Topics for discussion include strategies for creating and maintaining a multinational digital library programme; digitisation platforms and services; creating value-added features for discipline-specific digital libraries; use of social media and outreach to increase use and build new audiences; and migration of projects to sustainable programmes. This session includes participation from BHL global partners from Africa, the USA and Australia. Panelists: Ely Wallis (Museum Victoria/BHL Australia), Anne-Lise Fourie (South African National Biodiversity Institute/BHL Africa), Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian Libraries/BHL), William Ulate (Missouri Botanical Garden/BHL), and Noha Adly (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Deputy Head, ICT Sector).

12:45 - 14:00

LUNCH

VIP University Restaurant

POLICY AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 14:00 17:00

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 VENUE FACILITATOR: Time 14:00 14:30 14:30 15:00 15:00 15:30 15:30 15:50 15:50 16:10

Building 4: Room 001 Ms Lindi Nhlapo, IFLA Africa Section, Regional Manager, Regional Office for Africa Activity Diso, Lukman, JSTOR Digitization Project in Nigerian University Libraries: Policy Issues In Building and Sustaining Digital Collections Bakhoum, Nafissatou, Challenges of building digital repositories in Africa: a case study of best practice Refreshment Break/Networking Adeleke, Akinniyi A, Digitization capacity and skills of academic librarians in Nigeria Kigongo-Bukenya, Isaac Professor, Digitisation capacity and skills: the case for optimum curriculum to educate and train digital and archives managers in a developing country with special reference to Uganda Rossi, Pier Luigi, Creating Digital Workshops in African countries Discussion

16:10 16:30 16:30 17:00

CONCURRENT SESSION 2
VENUE

NATIONAL AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

14:00 17:00

FACILITATOR Time 14:00 14:20 14:20 14:40

Building 4, Room 003

Jamal BAIDA, Director, National Archives of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco Activity Aakki, Hassan, Rle de la numrisation dans la conservation des fonds patrimoniaux et la dmocratisation de linformation : Cas de la Bibliothque Numrique Marocaine

Bwamkuu, Africa J. and Wordofa, Teklemichael T., Collaborative Approaches to Building Digital Repositories in Africa: A case study of Ethiopia; building national digital repository of theses and dissertations produced by the Ethiopian Higher learning institutions Ennahid, Said, Towards a Digital Library for Manuscript Collections in Morocco Refreshment Break/Networking Ahmed Samir, Bassem Elsayed, Noha Adly, and Magdy Nagi, Digitizing Egyptian National Documents Archive: Challenges and Solutions Owano, Ashah, Building an Online Indigenous Knowledge Library on Culture, Environment and History: Case Study of Elimu Asilia Verleyen, Julie. The work of the African Digital Libraries Support Network (ADLSN).

14:40 15:00 15:00 15:30 15:30 15:50 15:50 16:10 16:10 16:30

16:30 17:00

Discussion

CONCURRENT SESSION 3 VENUE FACILITATOR Time 14:00 14:30

INSTUTIONAL EXPERIENCES

14:00 17:00

Building 4, Room 004 Alexio Motsi, Head of Preservation, National Archives and Records Service, South Africa Activity Sitaki, Eustache, Les pays en dveloppement et larchivage lectronique. Le thme traitera l' avance de larchivage lectronique dans les pays en dveloppement notamment au Burundi en particulier et dans la rgion des grands lacs. Burundi, Rwanda et en Rpublique Dmocratique du Congo en gnral Somers, Nellie, An investigation into the digital scanning of photographs in archival collections Refreshment Break/Networking Majawa, Felix P. Digital Library Implementation and usage: A case study of Bunda College Greenstone Digital Library in Malawi Diouf, Antonin, Gestion dune bibliothque numrique institutionnelle avec le logiciel Invenio : exemple du serveur de documents de lIDEP Discussion

14:30 15:00 15:00 15:30 15:30 16:00 16:00 16:30 16:30 17:00 18:00 - 20:00

Gala Dinner & Entertainment: Faculty Club _______________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013

Time 08.00 - 08:30 Activity REGISTRATION

PLENARY
VENUE FACILITATOR Time 08:30 09:00 09:00 09:30

08:30 09:30
Boardroom Felix Ubogu , University Librarian, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa Keynote Addresses Driss Khrouz, Director, National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco William Kanaan, Head of New Business Development for MENA and Turkey, Google

PLENARY
VENUE FACILITATORS Time 09:30 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:45
PR

A ROADMAP FOR DIGITSATION PROJECTS IN AFRICA

09:30 10:15

Boardroom Abraham Azubuike and Felix Ubogu (ICADLA Standing Committee representatives) Activity ICADLA Steering Committee Vision, Recommendations for the Way Forward for Digitisation Project in Africa and the Need for the Roadmap Division of conference participants into Breakaway Groups Refreshment Break/Networking

BREAK-AWAY SESSIONS
VENUESen Time 10:45 12:30 12:30 13:30

A ROADMAP FOR DIGITSATION PROJECTS IN AFRICA

10:45 13:30

Building 4, Rooms: 001, 002 &003 Activity Break-away Sessions Break-away groups report back to plenary with action proposals for Roadmap and Discussion.

13:30 - 14:30

LUNCH AND NETWORKING (University VIP Restaurant)

14:30 15:30
Boardroom Abraham Azubuike and Felix Ubogu (ICADLA Standing Committee representatives) Activity Presentation of Conference Outcome, Recommendations, Way Forward and Closure

FINAL PLENARY
VENUE
FACILITATORS

Time 14:30 15:30

TOUR OF FS
16:00 Guided Tour of Fs (The Medina - Old City), includes transportation (75 minute bus trip) and dinner (drinks not included in price) at the Palais De Fs Dar Tazi Restaurant www.Palaisdefes.Com/Restauration.htm

ICADLA Standing Committee

Adly, Noha Dr. Aina, Lenrie Professor Azubuike, Abraham Bakhoum, Nafissatou Benbouida, Mohamed Dr . Hillebrecht, Werner Kalule, Ezra Lotfi, Abdelhamid Professor Morgos, Rafaa Dr. Motsi, Alexio Nhlapo, Lindy Okojie, Victoria Pickover, Michele Salanje, Geoffrey Selematsela, Daisy Dr. Ubogu, Felix (Chair) Wordofa, Teklemichael Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt University of Ilorin, Nigeria Dag Hammarskjold Library, United Nations Institut Fondamental dAfrique Noire, Sngal Ministry of Scientific Research, Morocco National Archives of Namibia National Library of Uganda Al Akhawayn University, Morocco Ministry of Science and Technology, Sudan National Archives of South Africa IFLA Regional Manager for Africa IFLA Africa Section Chair University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi National Research Foundation, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Addis Ababa University Library, Ethiopia

ICADLA3 Advisory Committee

Eric Howard Dr Jill Cousins Kristine Hanna Martin Kalfatovic Simon Tanner Vigdis Moe Skarstein Northeastern University - Boston Europeana Foundation Internet Archive Smithsonian, USA Kings College London, UK National Librarian, Norway

ICADLA3 Wits Organizing Committee

Felix Ubogu (Chair), Abraham Azubuike, Gabriele Mohale, Tshidi Mwandla, Michele Pickover, Charles Roberts

ICADLA3 AUI Organizing Committee

Dr. Lotfi Abdelhamid ( Chair), Hanane Karkour (Coordinator), Mustapha Azaou , Rajaa Belaydi , Amal Al Omari, Khadija Elbaaj, Sanaa Elfata, Aziz El Hassani , Fatima Hadre, Abdelouhab Taoufiq, Rachid Zegrane.

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