Call for presentations: "New Tools of the Trade", ELAG Conference, 22 – 24 April, 2009, 
Bratislava, Slovakia. 

Web 2.0, social networking applications, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, facetted searching, 
semantic linking and digital documents are just some of the new developments that are 
rapidly changing the systems environment in libraries and what users expect from the 
systems that they use. To respond to these challenges, systems librarians and developers 
need to "re-tool": they need to discover and master new ways of developing and applying 
informatics to solve information problems. The ELAG 2009 Conference is calling for 
presentations on new tools including:
• innovative software, applications and environments
• emerging formats, protocols and standards or new ways of applying existing standards
• new procedures and techniques 

Place: 	Bratislava, Slovakia
Host: 	University Library of Bratislava, (Univerzitná knižnica v Bratislave)
Dates: 	22 - 24 April, 2009
 
Deadline for submissions: 	24 November, 2008
Address for submission: 	[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

Further Information is available on the 2008 conference website at http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/
 nder "ELAG 2009".

Information for presenters

The emphasis of the ELAG conference is on new developments and practical experience with library 
technology rather than academic presentations but relevant user studies are welcome. Presentations 
at the ELAG are generally 20-25 minutes in length to allow time for discussion. The working language 
of the conference is English.

Submissions should include a 300-word description of the project or topic, references to sites if 
available and a short biography of the speaker indicating background, involvement in the project 
or activity and public presentation experience. The Programme Committee will review all submissions. 
Notification regarding acceptance will be made by early January 2009. Speakers are normally expected 
to provide their own travel accommodation costs and the nominal registration fee.

Programme Committee

Ron Davies, Belgium (Co-chair)
Roy Gundersen, Norway (Co-chair)
Alojz Androvič, Slovakia
Iris Marthaler, Switzerland
Ere Majaila, Finland
Martin Svoboda, Czech Republic
Maja Žumer, Slovenia

What is the ELAG Conference? 

ELAG is Europe's premier conference on the application of information technology in libraries and 
documentation centres. For more than twenty-five years, the ELAG (European Library Automation Group) 
Conference has provided library and IT professionals with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, 
to review on-going developments and to exchange best practices. The conference follows a unique format, 
where subject-specific workshops alternate with single-track plenary presentations and a variety of social 
activities that provide a memorable opportunity to meet and exchange views with colleagues from a 
wide range of European countries. 

The 2009 conference will be hosted by the University Library of Bratislava, (Univerzitná knižnica v 
Bratislave or UKB) in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia from 22 to 24 April, 2009. 

For information on past conferences go to http://www.elag.org.