Addictions information: designing the future
20th Elisad Annual Meeting
Torino, 9 - 11 October 2008
Location: Associazione Gruppo Abele
Fabbrica delle "E"
corso Trapani, 91 B
10141 Torino
ITALY
Organiser: Centro Studi, Documentazione e Ricerche del Gruppo Abele
In addition to being - as usual - a privileged moment for training and studying, this year’s conference celebrates an anniversary of particular relevance to Elisad, whose primary goal is to promote the exchange of information among professionals dealing with documentation and information on addictions, in order to improve everybody’s knowledge and professional skills through networking, co-operation among members and promotion of joint planning skills. This goal is of particular relevance for Elisad, at a time when several of its members have lost – for different reasons – the financial support needed to carry out their activities, despite the quality and importance of their services in the field of addictions.
In addition to Elisad members, the conference is open to all those – both Italians and foreigners – who, for their work or because they’re personally interested, want to study the subject of quality addictions information in more detail, especially at the present historical moment, when the internet and the new technologies have deeply revolutionised information as a whole. The meeting is therefore of particular interest to all those working in public and private services, the staff of documentation centres and libraries, and professionals dealing with addictions information.
The subject of the meeting – Addictions information: designing the future - highlights Elisad association’s will to knowingly meet the challenges of the new millennium about information and new technologies.
The conference programme is still being drawn up, and the final version will only be ready in the month of September (the traditional call for papers will be issued only at the beginning of June). It will be structured into different sessions, roughly:
1) Outline of the Italian socio-political situation about addictions
2) Contributions on psycho-social research and European projects
3) Contributions on the new available instruments for managing the information on the internet (social networking), novelties about new web resources.
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