Monday, March 29, 2004

2 - 3:30 PM

Tour of the Special Exhibits of the Warren Museum Exhibit Gallery and the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Countway Medical Library , at Harvard University.

Guides: Virginia A. Hunt, Curatorial Assistant for Museum and Archives Collections and Jack Eckert, Reference Librarian

4 - 6 PM

Board Meeting

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

8:30 AM

Registration, Continental Breakfast

9:15 - 10:45 AM

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

Speaker: Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Senior Programme Manager, INASP-Health

Presentation (PDF)

10:45 - 11 AM

Break

11 - 12 PM

The Cochrane Collaboration, the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Cochrane Library

Speaker: Kay Dickersin, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Cochrane Center, and Professor of Medical Science, Brown University

Presentation (PDF)

12 - 2 PM

Lunch

2 - 3 PM

The Global Burden of Disease

Speaker: Stephen T. McGarvey, PhD, MPH Director of the International Health Institute and Professor of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine

Presentation (PDF)

3 - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 - 4:15 PM

Africana Information Resources

Speaker: Gretchen Walsh, Head, African Studies Library, Boston University

Presentation (PDF)

7 PM

Banquet at Durgin Park, 340 Faneuil Hall Market Place

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

9 AM

Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 11 AM

APLIC-I Business Meeting and 2005 Annual Meeting planning

11 AM -12:30 PM

Perspectives on the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)

Moderator: Susan Pasquariella, Senior Knowledge Sharing Officer, UNFPA and Manager, Development Gateway Population and Reproductive Health Portal
Panelists: Kate Wild; and Nancy Hafkin

Presentation (PDF)

Presentation (PDF)

12:30 - 2 PM

Lunch

2 - 3 PM

Accessible Information on Development Activities (AiDA)

Speaker: Virginia Yee, World Bank

Presentation (PDF)

3 - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 - 4:30 PM

Shifting Sands and Building Bridges - Perspectives on Organizational Change

Moderator: Laurian Carroll, Manager, Information Services, Management Sciences for Health

Panelists: Julia Cleaver, Resource Services Associate, Ipas Resource Center; Lori Delaney, Resource Center Manager, Library, IntraHealth International; Yan Fu, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan