IAALD World Congress 2013 at Cornell University is an opportunity for participants to explore, share, and discuss emerging priorities in discovery and access systems, content-management tools, and institutional or individual collaborations, in a content-rich era that is shaped by open-source technology, user-driven content, and partnerships,

The three-day Congress will feature contributed paper discussions, panels with leading experts, and interactive workshops with plenty of time for networking with colleagues.

Join librarians, IT professionals, and researchers from agricultural and related fields from across to discuss a broad, dynamic array of issues, such as: Capacity building, Collaboration and partnerships, Collection development, Data curation/management, Digital libraries and repositories, Discovery & access systems, Distance learning, Electronic resources, Emerging technologies, Fundraising/development, Hot topics, Information literacy, Information Management, Information Access, Innovation, Intellectual property & copyright, Leadership & management, Metadata & cataloging, Mobile technologies, Open source technology, Outreach/engagement, Professional/staff development, Scholarly communication, Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc), Special collections, Teaching & learning, Technology, and User driven content.

The University of Lleida Foundation, in conjunction with a number of other institutions, has planned a congress to mark this historic anniversary. The congress aims to provide a forum at which specialists from different countries will be able to exchange their experiences relating to different aspects of industrial and agricultural canals, including:

(1) History of canals and their impacts on the society (power and water supply)

(2) The different uses of canals and their impact on local landscape, environment and sustainability

(3) The management and improvement of canals to meet energy needs

(4) The importance of canals for regional economies and territorial development, and canals within the European Water Directives