2011 Conference Proceedings
The link below provides a .pdf version of the 2011 ACURIL Conference Proceedings.
ACURIL 2011
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The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL),
whichoriginated as part of a movement for Caribbean cooperation at the
university level, was initiated in the late 1960s by the Association of
Universities and Research Institutions of the Caribbean (UNICA). UNICA
recognized the need for close cooperation among university and research
libraries in the region and sponsored, along with the University of
Puerto Rico and its Institute of Caribbean Studies, the first conference
of librarians in the region's university and research libraries in
1969. ACURIL membership is comprised of the states and nations in the Caribbean and bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. There are three official languages for the conference: English, Spanish, and French. Our annual attendance includes participants from across the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe. This year, the conference is hosted in the United States for the first time in 14 years. For additional information about this year's conference, and about ACURIL and its activities, please contact Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Executive Secretary. -- "What is ACURIL?" ACURILNET. Retrieved November 9, 2010, from http://acuril.uprrp.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=2. |
Conference Theme
Disasters
are not uncommon events, and take many forms. Natural disasters include
weather phenomena, such as hurricanes, tropical storms, winds, floods,
extremes of heat or cold, earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic
eruptions. Manmade disasters generally include building collapse,
transportation accidents, and industrial accidents and now include acts
of terrorism, genocide, and war. Although disasters primarily are seen
as sudden onsets of cataclysmic events, such as a tsunami, there are
‘slow-onset’ disasters, such as drought, famine, or environmental
hazards, which occur over a longer duration of time. Disasters,
in whatever form they take, rob us of our sense of well-being, our
security, our community, our loved ones, and our homes. Disasters
forever change ‘life as we know it’ and seriously impact our ability to
function. We may rebuild buildings and replace lost books but the impact
on staff, their families and loved ones, and their communities linger. With
the hurricanes -- Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina -- and now the earthquakes
in Haiti and Chile, we are increasingly vulnerable to the forces of
nature, which we cannot control. However, we can inform ourselves of
best practices through the experiences of others and through the
research. It is to this that the theme of the 2011 ACURIL Conference was
chosen. The
41st conference will consist of keynote speakers, formal
presentations, panels, workshops, and poster sessions to address real
concerns in our response to disasters that occur in our libraries, our
role in the community before and after a disaster, and our role in
helping to build the evidence base in disaster research to make our
communities safer and more resilient to catastrophes. The
first day will be devoted to how we in libraries and archives respond
to the disasters that befall us. This day will focus on management and
triage, not only of books and media but will also the human side of
libraries and archives, our staff. The
second day will be devoted to how archives and libraries respond within
our communities before and after disasters occur. For example, what
types of outreach can we provide? How do we recreate our services to
meet the needs of our patrons? The
third day will examine the roles of libraries and archives in disaster
research. Libraries, such as Caribbean Disaster Information Network
(CARDIN) and the Regional Disaster Information Center for Latin America
and the Caribbean (CRID), address a broad spectrum of topics in disaster
research. There are also collections who specialise in a focal area,
for example, the Florida Mental Health Institute Research Library's
collection on disaster mental health collection or the Natural Hazards
Research Center's collection on post-disaster assessment and analysis,
or the University of Delaware Disaster Research Center, which houses one
of the largest social and behavioural sciences disaster collections. Please
consider submitting a paper, panel, or poster for the conference. Also,
if you are aware of individuals who may be interesting keynote
speakers, please send their contact information and short bio to our Local Organising Committee and to Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Executive Secretary, at executivesecretariat@acuril.org.
Translators Needed
ACURIL membership represents the expansive range of cultures existing between the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea borders. With such diverse heritages comprising the association, it should come as no surprise that ACURIL actively engages its membership by providing English, Spanish, French, French Creole, and Dutch conference sessions and publications.
Translators - both textual and simultaneous (verbal) - are needed. As the conference will be held in the United States for the first time in 14 years, conference organizers anticipate significantly greater attendance from the American English-speaking population than years past. Spanish-English, French-English, French Creole-English and Dutch-English interpreters are sought as well as interpreters able to translate simultaneously between any of the languages presented.
If you are interested in serving as a textual or verbal translator, please contact Ardis Hanson. In addition to identifying the specific languages spoken, written or read, please include your level of expertise (native, fluent, intermediate) and years of experience.
2011 Sponsors
ACURIL XLI Thanks the Following Sponsors ...
The USF Internal Awards Program for sponsoring Dr. James Andrews of the USF School of Information
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