About the Conference

The 17th annual conference of INFORUM that deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes will be held from May 24 to May 26, 2011 in Prague.

The conference is internationally-attended – since 2003 the original territorial focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been expanded to the other Central and Eastern European countries and it has become the main event in this field in the region. The conference is attended especially by information professionals from special and public libraries, private corporations and state agencies, IT managers, physicians, lawyers, university teachers and students.

Background

The INFORUM (hence called „Infomedia“) started in 1995 as the main side-event of BookWorld, the book fair in Prague, and was the first conference on professional information resources in the Czech Republic. The event moved from the Prague Exhibition Area to the freshly opened Vencovsky Aula of the University of Economics (former New auditorium). It also changed it's name to INFORUM at the same time.

Last year 538 participants were registered at INFORUM, 63 papers and 8 posters were delivered and 28 companies presented their products at the exhibition. We have also published more information about last year.

Committee

The conference programme is prepared by the committee whose members are information specialists working on the areas covered at the conference.

Organizing Committee

Jana Hartmanová, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Martina Krátká, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Andrea Kutnarová, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Klára Loukotová, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Irena Mikešová, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Ela Pokorná, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic

Programme Committee

Miroslav Bartošek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Helena Bouzková, National Medical Library, Czech Republic
Ivana Laiblová Kadlecová, Academy of Sciences Library, Czech Republic
Jiří Kadleček, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Adolf Knoll, National Library of the Czech Republic
Andrea Kutnarová, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Eva Lesenková, National Medical Library, Czech Republic
Martin Lhoták, Academy of Sciences Library, Czech Republic
Klára Loukotová, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Jakub Petřík, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic
Jindra Planková, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Svatopluk Rieger, Palacky University – Information Centre of Faculty of Science, Czech Republic
Milan Špála, Charles University in Prague – 1st Medical Faculty, Czech Republic
Filip Vojtášek, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic

INFORUM 2011