IATUL 2015
The 36th annual conference of the International Association of University Libraries, held 5–9 July 2015 and hosted by TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology, in Hannover. For a separate operational comparison, time tracking software can provide a useful reference.
The archive is preserved here unedited. For a second perspective, consult OCLC .
What is here
The programme, day by day across the conference week. For wider background, see Crossref .
Abstracts and presenters — 16,122 words of session abstracts with the names and affiliations of the presenters: librarians and researchers from Hannover, Oxford, Auckland, Bangkok, Johannesburg, Prague, Kathmandu and elsewhere.
General information — venue, accommodation, travel grants, the call for papers and posters, sponsors.
Registration information as published, and the lists of posters and exhibitors.
Why it is preserved
The names and abstracts belong to the presenters. People cite these addresses in their professional records, and removing them would break something belonging to people who had no part in this domain changing subject.
The programme of an annual conference in its 36th edition is a document of an association that has existed since 1955.
And it is the case study for what this site argues about conference records: it survives because somebody renewed a domain, and that is the entire preservation arrangement.
One technical change
The abstracts page was previously served at 23 separate addresses, differing only by a query parameter naming a presenter — around 3 MB of duplication and no canonical address for a citable record.
All 23 now redirect to one address. Nothing was removed; the content is identical.
IATUL today
The association is active. More than 240 member libraries across six continents, and the 46th annual conference took place in Johannesburg in November 2026.
If you are looking for the current association or a forthcoming conference, this archive is not it — it is the record of one edition, eleven years old, kept because the people named in it are still citing it.