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> Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and UK Children=92s Laureate Anne
Fin=
> e
> 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.
>
> =93For 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,=94 says National Organising Committee Co-Chair Ian
> McGowan. =93The 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.=94
>
> With a conference theme =91Libraries for life: democracy, diversity,
> delivery=92, there is also a sub-theme =91Building on the past - investing
i=
> n
> the future=92, which will provide a common thread for the plenary
sessions,
> such as those to be addressed by Seamus Heaney and Anne Fine.
=93Satellite
> meetings will also reflect this theme,=94 Mr McGowan says, =93providing 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.=94
>
> Social events will have a distinctively Scottish flavour, with receptions
> at Glasgow=92s newly opened Science Centre and Edinburgh=92s 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=92s 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, =93it
seems=
>
> excessively modest to describe IFLA as a single event,=94 Mr McGowan
> concludes. =93In fact, many of IFLA=92s constituent parts could plausibly
> claim to be conferences in their own right.=94
>
> 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
> Tel: +(31) (70) 3140884
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> Alison Minns UK
> Tel: + (44)(0)1273 643942
> Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> Notes
>
> Further information on IFLA can be found on its Website - www.ifla.org.
> Contact The Library Association at [log in to unmask] for further details
on
> the professional programme and practical information on registration and
> accommodation.
>
> The Library Association, which is managing the 2002 IFLA conference and
> exhibition on behalf of IFLA=92s 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.
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