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International Association of Technological University Libraries IATUL 2005 Meeting
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International Association of Technological University Libraries IATUL 2005 Meeting

Jay Bhatt and Maitrayee Ghosh
Library hi tech news, v 22(8), pp 24-28
01 Sep 2005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050510633925

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Conferences Information Innovation University libraries
Purpose Aims to report on the 26th IATUL Annual Conference. Designmethodologyapproach The conference focused on three major themes infrastructure, people and global innovation initiatives, which are summarised. Findings This conference addressed many important and relevant issues to science and technological universities worldwide. Collaboration, partnership and further discussion not only within IATUL membership but with members of other organizations such as IFLA can further enhance the mission information dissemination of technological libraries. The conference highlighted several important issues that the information professionals worldwide need to continue to think, reflect and develop strategies to practically implement them for the benefit to not only to the information producing and disseminating organizations but the society as a whole. Originalityvalue This conference provided ample opportunities to network with information experts in a variety of specialty areas such as Open Access Initiative, Scholarly communication, Digital Libraries and Information Literacy, etc. The networking opportunities provided further opportunities to collaborate and in the process create future opportunities to enhance mission of technological libraries to fulfill information needs of their researchers and scientists in the most efficient ways. The value gained is enormous and recommend future dialogs and interaction by IATUL with other organizations such as IFLA.

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