21st Polar Libraries Colloquy -Thursday, May 11th, 2006

This morning's sessions began with Michela Cecconi and Andrea Marchitelli of the Consortium for the Italian Antarctic Programme giving a thorough presentation on the NILDE document delivery system, which is used by 508 Italian libraries. This paper engendered some discussion about copyright issues around document delivery in Europe.

Irina Merkina, this year's Wenger award winner, from the Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography in Murmansk gave an overview of the history of her organization and described some of the other libraries in Murmansk

Satu Hallikainen rounded out Session 6 with an inspiring paper on the importance of using open-source software and open standards.

Sandy Campbell
Canadian Circumpolar Collection
University of Alberta
Edmonton