The National Book Council of Malta is pleased to announce the list of speakers for the open conference Breaking barriers – Contemporary use, models and allocation of ISBN across the world, organised in collaboration with the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (UK) and Logos.
The conference will be held at the Palace Hotel, Sliema, Malta, on Saturday 22 September 2018. The conference is free of charge and will be open to the public. Click here to view the full agenda of the conference.
The best papers presented at the conference will be published in a special edition of the premier publishing journal Logos, published by Brill.
The selected papers are the following:
| Name | Institution | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Miljana Šurlan | National Library of Serbia | ISBN - Serbian Practice |
| Joel P. Lascano | National Library of the Philippines | ISBN : the Philippine Experience |
| Katarzyna Nakonieczna | National Library of Poland | Leading or following the publishers? E-ISBN online service and publishers’ native metadata in the National Library of Poland |
| Miguel Jiménez | Agencia del ISBN, Madrid, Spain | Spain: a paperless ISBN Agency |
| Alenka Kanič | National and University Library in Ljubljana | International identifiers in an recently born country |
| Alison Bullock | Library and Archives Canada (LAC) | Symbiosis: Rewards by relationships in the Canadian ISBN System |
| Carol Riccalton | Preservation and Legal Deposit Unit, Luxembourg | Publications Office of the European Union |
| Renata Cozonac | ISBN, ISSN, and ISMN National Agency in the Republic of Moldova | ISBN assignment process in Moldova |
| Angus Phillips / Miha Kovač | Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies / University of Ljubljana | What is a book? |
| Mark Camilleri | National Book Council of Malta | Malta’s ISBN Databse and the Benefits of Open Data |