The Bloomsbury Conference: EUSIDIC and CLSIG Meet in London

摘要

When I first heard about The Bloomsbury Conference, I immediately thought of literary London in the early 1900s. But this was the name of the spring 2008 conference of EUSIDIC (the European Association of Information Services) as it teamed up with CLSIG (the Commercial, Legal & Scientific Information Group of CILIP, the U.K.'s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). The word "Bloomsbury" evokes aesthetics, new art forms and philosophies, cultured intelligentsia, and lives devoted to writing. How would these two information associations relate modern technology to such historical luminaries as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, John May-nard Keynes, Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Lytton Strachey? They were the progressives of their day, the intellectual avant-garde, propounding new ideas, proffering new philosophies, and pursuing different lifestyles.