Events for week 21 (from 05-22-2006 to 05-28-2006)

Conference : International Association of Technological University Libraries

From 22 May 2006 till 25 May 2006
Location: Porto, Portugal

The IATUL 2006 Conference is hosted by Kaleidoscope partner University of Porto, with the theme 'Embedding libraries in learning and research'.
We are pleased to invite you to submit papers and posters that can address a broad range of topics related to the Conference main Theme. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Libraries and Teaching and Learning
• Libraries and Research
• Systems Integration

The abstracts submission's deadline will be the 20th January 2006.

Contacts:
http://www.fe.up.pt/iatul2006
email iatul2006@fe.up.pt
Phone: +351225081575
Fax: +351225081893

Conference : WWW2006

From 23 May 2006 till 26 May 2006
Location: Edinbourgh, Scotland

Four packed days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions, tutorials, panels and social events on the future of the World Wide Web.

http://www2006.org/

 

Other : eLearning Africa

From 24 May 2006 till 26 May 2006
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kaleidoscope is an Association Partner of this conference.

Kaleidoscope is an Association Partner of this conference, and member Nicolas Balacheff of CNRS, Laboratoire LEIBNIZ - Institut IMAG (France) is on the advisory committee.

eLearning is high on the agenda in Africa. Governments and educational institutions look at eLearning as the only option to achieve one very important Millennium Goal which is "Education for All". In many countries new ambitious infrastructure programmes form the basis for unprecedented "great leaps forward" in providing access to and outreach in education and training. Complete information about this conference is available here.