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HEANEY AND FINE TO ADDRESS IFLA 2002 CONFERENCE
'Democracy, diversity, delivery' is theme of international event in Scotland
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and Children's Laureate Anne Fine
will be special guest speakers at the 68th General Conference of the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), to
take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 18-24 August. Mr Heaney will deliver
the opening lecture and novelist Anne Fine will be presenting a guest
lecture.
"For many of us, IFLA 2002 will be the most diverse and wide-ranging library
and information event to take place in the UK during our professional
lives," says National Organising Committee Co-Chair Ian McGowan. "The
opportunity to take part, meet colleagues from all parts of the world and
benefit from the perspective they bring to our professional concerns, learn
from others and pass on what we have learned - all these make IFLA a top
priority for hard-pressed conference and professional development budgets."
With a conference theme 'Libraries for life: democracy, diversity,
delivery', there is also a sub-theme 'Building on the past - investing in
the future', which will provide a common thread for the plenary sessions,
such as those to be addressed by Seamus Heaney and Anne Fine. "Satellite
meetings will also reflect this theme," Mr McGowan says, "providing an
opportunity to consider, for example, how librarians help young people to
recognise when information is needed, and then how to find, evaluate and use
it effectively."
Social events will have a distinctively Scottish flavour, with receptions at
Glasgow's newly opened Science Centre and Edinburgh's Museum of Scotland,
and the option of a seat on the Edinburgh Castle esplanade for the Military
Tattoo. For representatives of Carnegie libraries from around the world, a
special programme will commemorate the Scottish-born philanthropist's
extraordinary impact on public libraries.
With a major international trade exhibition, visits to a wide variety of
library and information centres in the central Belt of Scotland, and the
staging of one of the largest ever meetings of mobile libraries, "it seems
excessively modest to describe IFLA as a single event," Mr McGowan
concludes. "In fact, many of IFLA's constituent parts could plausibly claim
to be conferences in their own right."
IFLA 2002 is doubly significant because it marks the 75th anniversary of the
foundation of the Federation, in Edinburgh in 1927, and it also coincides
with the 125th anniversary of the Library Association and the year of its
unification with the Institute of Information Scientists to form CILIP: the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
Contact: Josche Neven IFLA HQ
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Contact: Alison Minns UK
Tel: + (44) (0)1273 643942
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Further information on IFLA can be found on its Website - www.ifla.org.
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the professional programme and practical information on registration and
accommodation.
IFLA is a non-political, non-governmental organisation whose object is to
promote the development of high quality library and information services of
all kinds throughout the world. Formed in 1927, it has over 1,600 Members
in 143 countries around the world. It believes that people, communities and
organisations need for their physical, mental, democratic and economic
well-being, free access to information, ideas and works of imagination.
Provision and delivery of high quality library and information services help
guarantee that access. IFLA is committed to enabling library associations
and institutions throughout the world, and their staff, to participate in
the work of the Federation regardless of geographical location.
The Library Association, which is managing the 2002 IFLA conference and
exhibition on behalf of IFLA's National Organising Committee, is a major
Membership body for library and information professionals with approaching
24,000 Members. In April, it unifies with the Institute of Information
Scientists to form CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals. Further information is available on its Website -
www.la-hq.org.uk.
Alison Minns
Chair, Publicity Sub-committee, IFLA 2002 National Organsing Committee
and
Information Adviser
University of Brighton
St Peter's House Library
16-18 Richmond Place
Brighton
BN2 9NA
Tel: 01273 643942 (direct); 643220 (issue desk)
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Fax: 01273 607532
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