Monday, November 12

8 p.m. Opening Ceremony 

Tuesday, November 13

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. FIRST SESSION: Professional Theory and Practice of Archives, Libraries and Museums in the early 21st century - Similarities and Contrasts

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. “Professional Theory and Practice of Archives”

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Professional Theory and Practice of Libraries and Museums in the early 21st century “Professional Theory and Practice of Libraries”

“Professional Theory and Practice of Museums”, International Council of Museums

10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Two Examples of Cooperation between Libraries and Archives
Ian E. Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, and Lise Bissonnette, CEO, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. An Example of Cooperation between Museums and Archives
Sina Ah Poe, Museum of Samoa, Secretary, Pacific Islands Museums Association

Debate

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Cooperation between Archives, Libraries and Museums: Conditions for Success

Debate

2:00 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. SECOND SESSION: Opportunities for Better Information Management: Co-operation between Archives and Government Records Creating Agencies

“Recordkeeping and Modernisation of Public Sector”

“Reforming Records Management in the Federal Environment: A Partnership between NARA and Federal Agencies”

“Records Management in Government”

Debate

3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Coffee Break

4 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. Discussion Groups

Wednesday, November 14

9 a.m.– 12:30 a.m. THIRD SESSION: Prospects for International Cooperation between Archives, Libraries and Museums

“The World Digital library”

“The European Digital Library”

“International Cooperation for Training within a Linguistic Community: the International Portal of Francophone Archives (PIAF)”

Debate

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Coffee Break

11 a.m.– 12:30 a.m. Discussion Groups

2 p.m.– 5.30 p.m. Session of National Archivists and Meeting of Presidents of Section with local archivists

Thursday, November 15

9 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. Session of National Archivists: Conclusions

9:30 a.m.–12:30 a.m. FINAL SESSION

Conclusions of groups and discussion of resolutions

Chairman
Jussi Nuorteva, Director General, National Archives, Finland 

Wednesday 14 November

14.00-15.30 p.m. The Paradigm Shift for Archives in the Information Society: from Keeper to Information Manager

15.30-16.00 p.m. Return on Investment versus Global Solidarity: Contradictory or Complementary?

Debate

16.00-16.30 p.m.     Coffee Break

16.30-17.30 p.m.     Discussion in 8 or 10 discussion groups

Implications for ICA (Leadership and programme)

Rapporteur : Dianne Macaskill, Chief Executive and Chief Archivist, Archives New Zealand

Implications for the National Archivist

Implications for Competencies, Training and Development

Thursday 15 November

9.00-9.30 a.m. Feedback and conclusions

At the 39th CITRA conference in Curacao, national archivists expressed their desire to reserve time at the next conference to discuss specific issues. The CITRA Bureau agreed to their request at the April 2007 meeting in Reykjavik, and are organizing a meeting between the section and association presidents and Canadian archivists to take place during the conference. The purpose is to allow for an exchange of ideas between professionals from the host country and those visiting from abroad on a common topic. To this end, we are organizing this half-day of discussions to which we seek your active participation.

The profession of archivist must continuously be promoted within society. Accordingly, archivists must unfailingly continue to share their achievements. For this, archivists must constantly innovate.

It is in this spirit that this discussion between archivists will take place, with an aim to:

·        Reveal some recent initiatives in the promotion of archives and archivists within society.

More specifically, this activity aims to:

·        Foster the exchange and sharing of experience between archivists who are members of the ICA and professionals from the host country on a common topic;

·        Discuss the relevance of developing a document akin to a "declaration" or "manifesto" at the international level; and

·        Assess the relevance of organizing days or months celebrating archives, as is done in other countries.

To conduct this activity, we are counting on the presence of approximately 40 ICA archivists (section presidents and association representatives) and some 20 Canadian archivists. All of these participants will receive documentation relating to the initiatives in question prior to the meeting.

Activity Schedule

2:00 p.m. Presentation of the activity: context, objectives, order

2:15 p.m. Three archivists will make brief presentations (15 minutes) on the various initiative indicated below.

3:00 p.m. Questions for the speakers

3:30 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Four or five discussion groups meet on the relevance of undertaking a project at the international level 4:45 p.m. Plenary (conclusion)

5:30 p.m. End of activity

Initiatives (declarations and manifestos)

Fr-Déclaration québécoise sur les archives

En-Quebec Declaration on Archives

Fr-Déclaration de l'Association pour le développement des activités documentaires au Bénin (ADADB)

EN-Declaration by the Association for the development of Documentary Activities in Benin (ADADB)