Edinburgh Repository Fringe

http://www.repositoryfringe.org/
Those interested in the likely future development of repositories will be interested in the streamed video presentations of the event which are now available at:
www.repositoryfringe.org.
Many of the Powerpoint presentations are also available from the site.
Repository Fringe 2008 was held on the 31st of August and the 1st of September, funded by JISC and hosted by [...]

Sun Preservation and Archiving SIG, 2008

http://events-at-sun.com/pasig_spring/presentations/
presentations

Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008

http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/08carte/result.html
Papers, slides and recommended reading
Below you find papers and slides, as well as reading recommended by the lecturers. Not all lecturers wrote a special paper for the course.

Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference 2008 proceedings

http://fkft.eu/en/proceedings
Both papers and slides can also be found via the programme. Look for the session you are interested in and check the Links section. You can also see the full list of papers submitted by participants in the conference and the list of the slides from the talks of FKFT2008.

Elsevier LibraryConnect Seminar 2008 Melbourne

http://asia.elsevier.com/libraryconnect08/melbourne
The Library as Strategic Investment: Results of the Illinois ROI Study
Ms Paula Kaufman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University Investment in the Library: What’s the Return? A Case Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008, by Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies
Balanced scorecard – [...]

Reference renaissance, August 2008

https://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/schedule_details.html

David W. Lewis, Dean of the University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Reference in the Age of Wikipedia, Or Not… PowerPoint
Getting Better All the Time! Improving Communication and Accuracy in Virtual Reference

Expanding Service and Enhancing Learning: Preliminary Report on a Novel Virtual Reference Collaboration

Come Together: Melding IM with an Existing [...]

Presentations from WIPO International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=16162
The following topics were covered:
Topic 1: Digital Preservation and Copyright in Australia    (Professor
Brian Fitzgerald and Jessica Coates)
Topic 1: Digital Preservation and Copyright in the United Kingdom (Adrienne Muir)
Topic 1: Digital Preservation and Copyright in the United States (June M. Besek)
Topic 1: Copyright and Digital Preservation in Singapore (Daniel Seng)
Topic 1: How Digital Preservation and Copyright [...]

ILDS Conference, resource sharing for the future, 2007

http://www.nlbconference.com/ilds/programme.htm
presentations and papers include:
Our digital world and its impact on document supply / Mike McGrath
Sharing resources, networking, document supply: The INIST experience / Jacqueline Gillet
Lock stock and 2 administrators / George Panagiotidis and David Ong
Tools and building block for success Delivering access through partnership / Mat Pfleger
NILDE: [...]

Library Assessment Conference Presentations Available Online

http://libraryassessment.org/
Washington DC—The 2008 Library Assessment Conference—cosponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries—convened in Seattle, August 4–7, 2008. The event, which built upon the success of the 2006 Charlottesville conference, attracted 375 professionals interested in library assessment.
The robust program opened [...]

IFLA Conference 2008

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm
not all proceedings are available yet, but will be added.