Fourth Global BHL Meeting

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Fourth Global BHL Meeting

Fez, Morocco, May 27-28 2012

This meeting is previous to the ICADLA-3 Meeting in Ifrane, see here: http://www.wits.ac.za/conferences/icadla/18123/icadla.html
This meeting will take place in Dar Fes Medina in Fez, Morocco where we have separated rooms for the participants. Since we don't have a local partner in Fez, each partcipant should confirm and pay for their own food, transportation and accommodations.
Please note that to attend the Meeting you might need to fly to Fez directly or fly to Casablanca and take a train to Fez.
The Staff at Dar Fes Medina can pick you up at the train station if you like, please contact them.
For those of you attending ICADLA-3, we have arranged transportation from Fez to Ifrane with the ICADLA-3 organizers.

Objective

The goal is to have our fourth Meeting with each regional node to discuss and decide on topics related to the Global BHL.

Meeting Notes

Meeting Notes

Accommodation / Venue

We have arranged for 3 nights (26, 27, 28 May) at Dar Fes Medina, a traditional house with rooms in a Ziat residential neighborhoods of the old Medina where they can host around 10 people ( they could provide 5 rooms with 2 separate beds or 2 rooms with 1 bed and 3 with 2 separate beds). The price per night, including traditional breakfast and taxes is 60 Euro per room of 2 people (30 Euro each) and 50 Euro for a room with 1 bed. Each room is equipped with TV, private bathroom, medical bed and quiet air conditioning. Please note that they can only take cash (Dirhams, Euros or Dollars) as the payment at Fez. The staff at Dar Fes Medina has confirmed there is an ATM nearby to get money for the payment. We will also have lunch both days in the Dar (18 euros per meal) and they will provide us with a room to have a nice meeting. There is free Internet in the Dar and the room has electricity.
They are in high season so it is necessary that each participant confirms their reservation ASAP, by sending an email or a fax to them indicating your name, address, phone number and credit card number plus expiration date and the days you plan to stay.
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Website: www.darfesmedina.com
Email: darfesmedina@gmail.com
Phone: +212(0)6 73 31 41 07
+212(0)5 35 63 83 92

The meeting will take place in Dar Fes Medina.

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Confirmed Attendees

Fourth Global BHL Meeting

BHL-Africa

• 01. Anne-Lise Fourie, SANBI. BHL-Africa Chair.

BHL-Australia

• 02. Ely Wallis, Museum Victoria. BHL-Australia lead. Global BHL Chair.

BHL-China

• 03. Jinzhou Cui, Chinese Academy of Science. BHL-China lead.

BHL-Egypt

• 04. Dr. Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

BHL-Europe

• 05. Jiri Frank, NM Prague

BHL-US/UK

• 06. Nancy Gwinn, A. Smithsonian Libraries. Global BHL Secretary.
• 07. Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Libraries. Program Director, BHL

Global BHL

• 08. William Ulate, Global BHL Project Manager, MOBOT

Agenda

This Agenda is been developed from your suggestion on topics you would like to cover.

DAY 1: Monday, 27 May 2013

• Welcome from the Chair
• Review of Agenda
• Report of the Chair
• Report from the Nodes
  (achievements + challenges of last year & future plans)
  • Australia
  • Africa
  • China
  • Egypt
  • Europe
  • US/UK
  • Brazil?

DAY 2: Tuesday, 28 May 2013

• Discussions
  • BHL IT needs
    • Content Synchronization
    • Portal: is it neccessary for multiple global platforms: What would the use case/needs justification for a local local platform be?
    • Scanning workflow tools
    • Biodiversity Library Exhibitions
  • Membership & Governance
    • Are existing by-laws adequate?
    • Discussion of expansion of BHL membership model; what is the role of the nodes?
    • BHL relationship to national, regional, and global aggregation (DPLA, Europeana, WDL, etc.)*
    • Library of Congress joins BHL: how can this assist with global BHL activites (e.g. involvement with other National Libraries, etc.)
    • Review Regional BHL Membership: What are growth areas? How should contacts be coordinated with areas currently not represented in gBHL (Russia, India, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Latin America, Canada, etc.)
    • Funding strategies at the different existing global nodes
    • Funding options to support Global BHL activities (and what this might mean)
• gBHL-CC Elections
• New gBHL-CC Meeting: Date | Place

Traveling Arrangements

Most of you flying to Morocco will be arriving to Casablanca. A convenient way to get into the city is to take the train from the airport to Casa Voyageurs (Casa Travelers) station. The train station at Mohamed V Airport in Casablanca is located at Terminal 1, lower level section of the terminal, make sure to exchange some money to Moroccan DH before heading to the train station, the trip is every hour, and it usually takes half an hour to 40 minutes to reach Casa Voyageur Station, check the Morocco train guidefor more details. The train system in Morocco is operated by ONCF, where you can check the train schedules. (Please note that the last train from the Airport departs at 8:00pm.) For a map of the train stations see here.



From Casablanca you can take the train to Fez (price 110 Dirhams). You could join any of the groups taking the train from Casablanca to Fez together.

There are currently two groups formed by now:

DATE	TIME	GROUP
1. Saturday 25 May	1. Taking train at Voyageur Station departing at 4:15pm and arriving at Fez at 8:00pm.	Ely, Martin
2. Sunday 26 May	2. Taking the train at Voyageur Station departing after 4:15pm and arriving at Fez around 8:00 pm.	Anne-Lise, Jiri, William, Magdy

The staff from Dar Fes Medina can coordinate our pick up at the Fes train station. Take note of the address where we will be staying, just in case.

For those of you returning home from Fes, you can arrange with the staff at the Dar Fes Medina to take you back to the train station to Casablanca.
Some of you will be traveling from Fes to Ifrane to attend ICADLA-3, where we will have a Panel for BHL: ICADLA-3. The ICADLA-3 organizers have confirmed they will provide a van so we can all go from Fez to Ifrane together. The cost of the Van one way is 480 MAD (approx. $60 USD) and can accommodate up to 8 persons. So far, we have the following people in the group:

Transportation from Fez to Ifrane Wed. 29 May
1.	Ely Wallis
2.	Anne-Lise Fourie
3.	Nancy Gwinn
4.	Magdy Nagi
5.	Jiri Frank
6.	Martin Kalfatovic
7.	William Ulate R.

Also, the organizers of ICADLA-3 are offering to coordinate taking us to the nearest train station for our return after the ICADLA-3 meeting.
Please add your name to the following list if you would like us to arrange your return with the ICADLA-3 organizers:

Transportation from Ifrane
#	Name	Date	Time	Destination
1.	William Ulate	Saturday 1 June, 2013	10 am.	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)
2.	Anne-Lise Fourie	Saturday 1 June 2013	10 am.	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)
3.	Jiri Frank	Saturday 1 June 2013	10 am.	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)
4.	Martin Kalfatovic	Saturday 1 June 2013	10 am	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)
5.	Ely Wallis	Saturday 1 June 2013	10 am	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)
6.	Nancy Gwinn	Saturday 1 June 2013	10 am	Meknès (Station Amir Abdelkader)