electronic info for libraries General Assembly 2005

eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is an interesting organization of developing countries.

Their General Assembly 2005 just took place this year in Lithuania.  Topics included open source, open access and Google Scholar.  Mark Leggott reports:

I have been in Vilnius Lithuania for the last 5 days working with the members of a great library group called eIFL. Art Rhyno and I gave an all-day workshop on open source (Art did all the work) and we then participated in a couple of days of conferencing. It was a very good set of sessions but more importantly, it is a great group of people. In fact, it is the only other event I have attended that had a feel similar to Access. A close-knit group with a passion for the issues they are meeting to discuss with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. The group has representation from about 50 member countries, mostly from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Much of the sessions were concerned with things open, so I really felt at home. What I particularly noticed was that the group is very keen to make use of open source and open content and is very savvy about the technology and issues - more, I suspect, than many people in North America would think.

Previously:
2005-Feb-05  eIFL Open Access project