The St. Thomas St. John Library Association announces the 2011 IFLA-GENLOC Satellite Meeting entitled “The Information Diaspora: Innovating Research and Records Custodianship for Family History Users” on Aug. 10-12 at the Holiday Inn Windward Passage Hotel. This event will be co-hosted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Section on Genealogy and Local History (IFLA-GENLOC), a professional association organized in The Hague, The Netherlands, and the St. Thomas-St. John Library Association Inc., a Virgin Islands nonprofit organization incorporated, among other things, to provide training and professional continuing education opportunities for library, archives and information professionals in the territory.
The 2011 Satellite three-day meeting presents ten remarkable international and locally-based speakers who will address the issues of records custodianship in the digital age, innovations in research strategies
facilitated through digital advances and a special case study on efforts to re-unify the historical records of the Danish West Indies through digitization. The speakers represent a variety of viewpoints and areas of expertise in the subject matters to be discussed, and they are geographically diverse, coming from Curaçao, St. Croix, the Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University, Turks and
Caicos and Denmark, among other places. The co-hosting organizations appreciate the following corporate sponsors and government agencies without whom this conference would not be possible:
International Capital & Management Company
Virgin Islands Department of Tourism
West Indian Company Ltd.
The Caribbean Philanthropic Network (a fund of the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands)
Caribbean Genealogy Library Inc.
For further information on registration and attendance, contact Annice Canton at annice66@gmail.com / 244-9823 or Susan Lugo at susanlauralugo@gmail.com or 690-0531
facilitated through digital advances and a special case study on efforts to re-unify the historical records of the Danish West Indies through digitization. The speakers represent a variety of viewpoints and areas of expertise in the subject matters to be discussed, and they are geographically diverse, coming from Curaçao, St. Croix, the Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University, Turks and
Caicos and Denmark, among other places. The co-hosting organizations appreciate the following corporate sponsors and government agencies without whom this conference would not be possible:
International Capital & Management Company
Virgin Islands Department of Tourism
West Indian Company Ltd.
The Caribbean Philanthropic Network (a fund of the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands)
Caribbean Genealogy Library Inc.
For further information on registration and attendance, contact Annice Canton at annice66@gmail.com / 244-9823 or Susan Lugo at susanlauralugo@gmail.com or 690-0531
