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IFLA RSAO Newsletter 15: 2(December 2003): 1 IFLA Headquarters Visiting Address: Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands Postal Address: P.O. Box 95312, 2509 CH The Hague, Netherlands Tel. +(31)(70)3140884 Fax +(31)(70)3834827 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.ifla.org 15: 2 (December 2003) ISSN 0858-2815 IN THIS ISSUE 1. IFLA NEWS 1. IFLA NEWS FROM HEADQUARTERS FROM REGIONAL OFFICE FROM HEADQUARTERS FROM RSCAO 2. HAPPENINGS IN THE REGION Alex Byrne Wins INDIA KIRIBATI IFLA Presidential Election PAKISTAN SIBERIA Alex Byrne, University Librarian, University of SRI LANKA Technology, Sydney, Australia, has been voted THAILAND President-elect by IFLA members. He will begin 3. CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/ his two-year term as President-elect during the WORKSHOPS IFLA conference in Berlin this August. He will REPORT FROM THE CONFERENCES succeed Kay Raseroka as President in August WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION 2005 for a two-year term. CONGRESS FUTURE IFLA CONFERENCES Alex is the current Chair of the IFLA Free Access EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD to Information and Freedom of Expression 4. ALP NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT (FAIFE) Committee. On hearing the news, Alex REPORT said: "I am honored and humbled to be elected 5. MISCELLANEOUS President-elect of IFLA, the peak international UNESCO/APC MULTIMEDIA organization for my profession. I look forward TRAINING KIT to working closely with incoming President Kay WORLD BOOK Raseroka and then succeeding her to continue AND COPYRIGHT DAY -23 APRIL the process of making IFLA a truly global VANISHING PROJECT: BOOKS FOR ALL organiza-tion which has the right to know at its AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS WSIS heart. Through the combined efforts of our WWW profession, IFLA can support our aspirations, and 6. PUBLICATIONS those of the wider communities we serve, to create a just information society for the benefit of all." IFLA RSAO Newsletter 15: 2(December 2003): 2 New Elected IFLA Governing Board meetings and seminars. are: Ana Maria Zimmermann (Argentina), Claudia Lux (Germany), Sissel Nilsen (Norway), UBCIM was originally hosted by the British Jianzhong Wu (China), Ellen Tise (South Africa), Library (1973-1989) and later Die Deutsche Ingrid Parent (Canada), Shawky Salem (Egypt), Bibliothek from 1990 to the beginning of 2003. Tiiu Valm (Estonia), Evgeniy Kuz'min (Russian In early 2003 the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Federation) and Vinyet Panyella (Spain). They took over the responsibility for both UNIMARC will serve a two-year term on the Governing and ICBC (International Cataloguing and Board, beginning at the end of the Berlin Bibliographic Control, a quarterly journal of conference in August. Shawky Salem, Tiiu Valm, IFLA, formerly of UBCIM). Evgeniy Kuz'min and Vinyet Panyella will be serving on the Board for the first time. Another component of ICABS is a major part of (Extracted from Reference 1, June 10, 2003) the programme of the former Universal Dataflow and Telecommunications Core Activity (UDT). UDT supported analysis and promotion of IFLA - CDNL Alliance for technologies and standards as they apply to Bibliographic Standards interoperability and the digital environment in the areas of networked resource discovery, (ICABS) information retrieval, digitization, and metadata. It worked with IFLA Sections and programmes A new alliance between IFLA and national across the Federation, but especially supported the libraries was established in August 2003 to professional activities of the Information continue and expand the coordination work Technology Section. It was hosted at the National formerly done by the IFLA UBCIM and UDT Library of Canada (NLC) from its beginning in Core Programme Offices. the late 1980s until it was closed in 2001. UDT also developed and then maintained IFLA's Background primary communications tool, IFLANET, hosted for many years at NLC. IFLANET was moved to The IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique International MARC (UBCIM) Core Activity was (INIST) in France in 2001 and is not part of the established thirty years ago and came to an end in ICABS activity. 2003. The purpose of UBCIM was "to coordinate activities aimed at the development of systems And finally, the Conference of Directors of and standards for bibliographic control at the National Libraries (CDNL), which has provided national level and the international exchange of the main support and funding (in kind and bibliographic data, including the support for through donations) for these Core Activities over professional activities of appropriate IFLA many years, also recently established a committee Sections and Divisions" (e.g., the Division of to monitor digital library developments- the Bibliographic Control and the Sections on CDNL Committee on Digital Issues (CDI). The Information Technology and of National Committee's work on bibliographic standards and Libraries). It also coordinated the development of digital preservation is being folded into the the UNIMARC format. Furthermore, the ICABS mission, while the Committee's work on Programme ensured publication of reports on deposit agreements will be continued separately projects related to international bibliographic and by the National Library of Australia. (Extracted format standards and proceedings of relevant from Reference 1, September 29, 2003) IFLA RSAO Newsletter 15: 2(December 2003): 3 Winner of Guust van FROM REGIONAL OFFICE Wesemael Literacy Prize 2003 Excerpts from some Letters/ E-mail Notes IFLA is pleased to announce that the Asociacion Civil Banco del Libro of Caracas, Venezuela, is I am the librarian of the mardan library in the winner of the Guust van Wesemael Literacy Pakistan. As to inform our new generation about Prize 2003. day-to-day invention and discovery and about other topics, I like to get some donation in the The objective of this award of 3,000 Euros is to form of journals and Books from your Institute. sponsor a public or school library in a develop-ing We have shortage of books and are not in the country to perform activities in the field of financial position to buy them. I hope you will literacy: collection development, promotion, accept my request for donation and send some of training, policy development or otherwise. them at library mailing address, which is: Banco del Libro is a private, non-profit Civil Librarian Name : Saqib Rafique Khan Association dedicated to investigate, experiment, Library Name : The Mardan Library innovate and carry out formative activities for Library address : 506/c sham gunj readers. Its main objective is to encourage the City : Mardan reading of high-quality books in libraries, schools and homes. Province : N.W.F.P Post code : 23200 Leer para vivir, or Read to Live is the award- Country : Pakistan winning project that was submitted for IFLA's e-mail : [email protected] Guust van Wesemael Prize this year. It was conceived in the bibliotherapy setting, as a means (...We need almost all kinds of books especially of support to those affected by the land-slides those related to sciencetific fields. which took place in December 1999 in the State Our library is a public library and also many of Vargas. Fundamental activities within the institutions use our library for project include story telling and workshops for their research and educational work...) information dissemination to teachers and librarians. Its most important achievement has FROM RSCAO been the establishment of a significant "human network" which currently comprises 62 schools and four communities filled with readers. Asia and Oceania Section http://www.ifla.org/VII/s26/sraao.htm This Prize was established in 1991 by IFLA's Executive Board to commemorate the late Guust Strategic Plan, 2004-2005 van Wesemael, Coordinator of IFLA's Professional Activities from 1979 to 1990 and Mission Deputy Secretary General of IFLA from 1979 to To initiate, promote and facilitate the 1991. Funded by donations, the Guust van development of library/information services Wesemael Literacy Prize has been awarded and library and information professionals biennially since 1997. within the region. (Extracted from Reference 1, June 01, 2003) IFLA RSAO Newsletter 15: 2(December 2003): 4 Goal 1 To provide opportunities for regionally- of library development in the region--i.e. School based education and training in library and libraries and public libraries information management skills, with emphasis on 3.2 To facilitate networking between two existing information literacy. associations in the region with countries planning to develop associations. Actions 1.1 To select 4 candidates and identify institutions Goal 4 To promote high quality library and for up to one month's in-service training in information management (LIM) standards and collaboration with the Advancement of guidelines among countries in the region. Librarianship Programme (ALP). 1.2 To select 2-3 candidates and identify host Actions institutions for information literacy training in 4.1 To heighten awareness of existing LIM collaboration with ALP. standards and guidelines (e.g. Public library 1.3 To support 2-3 projects which are aimed at guidelines, School library guidelines, Guidelines developing literacy activities and programmes on information literacy programmes). including the use of ICT or distance education to 4.2 To facilitate development of national level facilitate or support them. LIM standards and guidelines. 1.4 To organize a minimum of 2 workshops/ 4.3 To undertake or sponsor the translation of seminars to develop professional expertise in relevant LIM standards and guidelines for a information literacy for librarians. minimum of two countries in the region. 4.4 To facilitate a minimum of 1 workshop or Goal 2 To enable and encourage Asia and seminar on LIM standards and guidelines. Oceania Section (AOS) members to take part in 4.5 To compile, print and distribute a brochure(s) the work of IFLA, and work together with other of "tried and tested best library practices" / IFLA Sections and Core Activities to achieve innovations of libraries in the region.