9th Annual International Conference EVA2006 Moscow

The International Conference "Personal Information Culture: Information Society Challenges" will be held November 2 - 3, 2006 in Moscow, Russian Federation.

The Conference venue: National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) (# 13, Zoologicheskaya street, 123242, Moscow, Russia, www.english.ncca.ru).

The conference organisers: Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography; Russian Committee of the “Information for all” UNESCO Programme; Centre on the Problems of Informatisation in the sphere of Culture; Interregional Centre for Library Cooperation; National Centre for Contemporary Arts; Information Society Development Foundation; Kemerovo State University for culture and arts; Kuzbass Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Social Sphere; Russian State Art Library; Trading House "Biblio-Globus"; Union "Guild of Bookmen".

Background: Observation and research on information literacy and personal information culture, made in Russia within UNESCO IFAP implementation, brought noteworthy results and important conclusions on the ways and means to enhance human potential in the information society. Methods of forming integral personal information culture have been elaborated and tested in educational establishments and libraries of the Kemerovo Region, Siberea. Prerequisites have been made for more extensive use of those methods in the educational routine in Russia and other UNESCO member-states.

Those achievements were repeatedly announced in and outside Russia to always arouse great interest. Major results have been obtained and considerable practical experience stored.

The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to discuss the issues of personal information culture in dynamic, rapidly changing world of global information society.

The conference objectives are the following:

• to integrate theoretical achievements of different knowledge areas (philosophy, culturology, pedagogics, sociology, law, informatics, library science, bibliography science, etc.) for personal information culture development;
• to analyse the experience of Russian educational and library institutions in personal information culture building;
• to promote the unique experience of the Kuzbass Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Social Sphere in development and implementation of the personal information culture concept;
• to disseminate education and training materials and technologies of personal information culture building developed by the Kuzbass Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Social Sphere;
• to attract attention on international professional community to the Russian experiences in personal information culture development.

The main conference topics:

• actuality and social importance of information culture of a person in information society;
• personal information culture as an integrative branch of researches;
• the concept of personal information culture development;
• prerequisites for implementation of the personal information culture concept;
• personal information culture building technology based on a system of varied education and training materials;
• mechanisms of the personal information culture implementation on national, regional and local levels.

Working languages are Russian and English.

Detailed conference information, visa information, hotel booking information could be found on the conference WEB-site on the information pages.

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