II ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY ART ARCHIVE DEPARTMENTS
Virtual environments and new strategies for disseminating information
19 and 20 October 2004
The use of information technology is transforming libraries and documentation centres. This change affects the type of contents being introduced into these institutions, the demands of end users and the services created or developed in response to these demands.
Constant innovation in the information technology sector obliges us to continually re-think the structure and contents of documentation centres.
Interaction with the community makes it possible to create services that are adapted to the social context and establish a way of working based on a flexible library model that is able to adapt constantly to the new needs expressed by its end users.
The objective of these Encounters is to act as a forum for analysing the effect of the new diffusion and information strategies on the role played by documentation centres. They also aim to make use of communication technologies to promote cooperation programmes between different centres.
PROGRAMME
Using digital technology to disseminate the documentary heritage of Artium, the Basque Centre-museum of Contemporary Art in the province of Alava
Elena Roseras Carcedo. Head of the library and archive department at Artium (Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Basque Country)
mediatecaonline.net: from shelves to networks. On-line information for researching, conserving and disseminating knowledge about audiovisual and multimedia contemporary art
Valentí Farràs Company. Head of mediatecaonline.net at the Caixaforum cultural centre (Barcelona)
Virtual strategies for constructing knowledge: the art archives at the Centre of Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art (CENDEAC, Catalonia)
Miguel A. Hernández-Navarro. Assistant manager of CENDEAC (Murcia)
ARKIDAT: the architecture database of the Basque Country
Marian Piñeiro Fernández. Associate director of the Gipuzkoa Campus libraries of the University of the Basque Country (UPV)
Julen Zabala Alonso. Head of the library at the Architecture School (ETSA) of the UPV
Online public access catalogues: visualising information
Mª Luisa Alvite Díez. Associate professor in the department of library economy and documentation at the Philosophy and Arts Faculty of the University of Leon (Castile and Leon)
Digital environments and film archives: from the fairground stall to cyberspace
Rosario López de Prado. Head of the documentation service at the Spanish Film Archive (FE, Madrid)
Digitalising the plans of the Spanish Historical Heritage Institute (IPCE)
Socorro Prous Zaragoza. Head of the general archive department at the IPCE (Madrid)
ARTEDER, a web environment for disseminating Basque art
Begoña González Pérez. Head of the library at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (MBAB, the Basque Country)
How to use contemporary art portals on the Internet to document, conserve and disseminate knowledge of video art
Aramis López Juan. Art specialist at the University of Alicante Museum (UA, Alicante)
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