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Public Relations Aktuelles Archiv Archiv 2010 OKOK 2010 hosted at the University of Leoben
Public Relations Aktuelles Archiv Archiv 2010 OKOK 2010 hosted at the University of Leoben | OKOK 2010 hosted at the University of Leoben |
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Under the motto "Access to Knowledge and Information Competence for Everybody?", the ODOK conference 2010 takes place from September 22 to 24 at the University of Leoben. The conference is jointly organised by the Association of Austrian Librarians and the Austrian Society for Documentation and Information and has been taking place every two years since it came into existence 25 years ago. The topics discussed range from financing, the documentation and administration of electronic media, as well as the relevant developments in the information and knowledge society. "Due to the tremendously large number of information sources available on the internet, such as newspapers, search engines, reference books etc., free access information seem to be easily available for everybody", Dr. Christian Hasenhüttl, head of the university library at the University of Leoben, explains. "Nevertheless, public libraries and documentation institutions spend large amounts of money on purchasing special information. The increasing importance of online information sources that are subject to charge determine the price, and information brokers have to submit to the strict access restrictions by the publishing companies which have monopolies in many fields." In the year 2008, the 19 university libraries in Austria have acquired information carriers for more than 33 million euros, 35 percent being electronic media like electronic magazines, e-books and data banks. "For contemporary research activities, these electronic sources of information are indispensable", Hasenhüttl stresses: "The number of these publications has grown over the past three years about eight percent on average, and annually increase by five to seven percent." Hence, the ODOK 2010 addresses issues that are “relevant for everybody”, Hasenhüttl says: "Which basic aspects – legal, financial, technical – are necessary in order to make the state-financed knowledge also accessible to the public? How do we handle the opposites between information as a copyright product and the democratic demand for free access to information for citizens of an open (knowledge) society? How can public facilities provide a wide offer for specialist information? How long will the universities be able to afford important online information accesses? And which search tools can information specialists provide in order to manage the range of data and find the suitable information efficiently?" Further information: Dr. Christian Hasenhüttl University of Leoben Tel.: 03842/402-7800 http://www.odok.at/2010/de |