2007 TICFIA National Meeting
The University of New Mexico , coordinated by UNM’s LAII and University Libraries, will host the 2007 TICFIA Grantee Conference. The U.S. Department Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant supports projects for fostering innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies for collecting information from foreign sources. The purpose of this annual conference is to bring together representatives from ten currently funded TICFIA projects and special guests. Themes such as challenges in accessing international information for research and concerns on accessing information within an international frame of cultural diversity are considered pivotal to the discussion promoted in this Conference in order to empower the TICFIA projects perspective and performance.
All the activities will take place at the UNM Student Union Building (SUB), on April 19th and April 20th, 2007. For details, please visit the conference website here
LAKH participation in IBICT Symposium
Cynthia Radding and Johann van Reenen, UNM LAKH project co-principal investigators, participated as speakers in the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) Symposium on Research, Publication and Open Access to Scientific Production, Archiving, and Dissemination of Knowledge, 22-25 August, 2006 in Brasília , Brazil . Their presentations helped disseminate the LAKH project to the OAI and scientific Brazilian audience, strengthened links with prestigious scientific institutions (such as the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and established new contacts with representatives from the Pontificia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade de São Paolo.
A detailed report on this visit can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/1928/1891
IBICT and University of New Mexico agreement
The Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are working closely on developing a cooperation agreement on science and technology information. The agreement includes mutual scientific and technical projects, scientific community strengthening, co-organization of academic activities, interchange of scholars and students, publishing activities and so on.
According to Helio Kuramoto, IBICT Special Projects coordinator, and Johann Van Reenen and Cynthia Radding, UNM representatives, both institutions are planning to establish a strong partnership for sharing academic resources and services such as libraries and laboratories for diverse scientific fields.
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