Welcome by the IFLA President

Welcome by the President of the Italian National Committee

Words of Welcome by Anna Maria Tammaro, IFLA Governing Board Member

Acknowledgements to Institutions

Acknowledgements to Grant Institutions

Important Deadlines

Documents required in order to apply for a visa

Congress Sponsors

Keynote Speaker at the Opening Session

Plenary Speakers

Satellite Meetings

Overview of Congress Programmes

IFLA Headquarters at the World Library and Information Congress 2009!

Website

Submitting Conference papers

Contact Information

1 Welcome Words by the IFLA cultural exchanges, and building friendships with colleagues from across the globe. IFLA WLIC 2009 President in will indeed enrich our IFLA family.

Welcome to the Claudia Lux, President of IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2009, and welcome to Welcome by the President of the this inspiring city of Milan, Italy. I am Italian National Committee very proud that this IFLA event Dear Colleagues, is being held for the first time in In 2009 we celebrate Milan, and Italy the 75th anniversary for the fifth time, of the IFLA Congress following which first took place (1928, 1929 and in Rome, 1951, 1964) and and in 1929. Florence and Venice (1929). The World Library It is wonderful to be in this country which has such and Information a rich cultural heritage. To again emphasise the Congress will once words of the Mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti, Milan more come back is an ideal setting for IFLA’s annual congress, to Italy, this time in with this unique opportunity to discover Milan’s Milan from 23 to 27 treasures, and historical, artistic and cultural August 2009 at the heritage. Milan offers the right environment for Milan Convention us to share our ideas on our Congress theme Centre. of Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage. We will gather here, surrounded by Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage, to discuss important issues in our field heritage is the chosen theme for the IFLA 2009 and to work together in creating our future. Congress. Libraries can really build the future if In this my last Congress as IFLA President, I would they improve the quality of people’s lives through like to bring the theme of my presidency to the their culture. Thanks to libraries, people have attention of all delegates: Libraries on the Agenda! been gathering and storing their scientific, artistic, By influencing the agendas of our communities, literary, musical as well as religious activity over regions, institutions, companies, governments, time. Libraries preserve the bases of all human and the international bodies that deal with the knowledge. Knowledge transmission today has world we live in, we librarians and information radically changed: the scope of bibliography workers are creating not only our future, but a has widened immensely. Libraries therefore had better world. Whatever the economic, social or to update their role: preservation and access political conditions, our profession must take an are still the main points to be achieved, though active role in defining and delivering equitable in a new, critical and professional way, in order access to the resources that provide information to assure the adequate standard of the service. for all, lead us to knowledge, and improve the In this way libraries keep pace with the change quality of community and individual lives. I look brought about by history and technology, forward to further discussions on this theme in helping to shape the future through the resources Milan. inherited from the past. Century long traditions On behalf of the Governing Board of our have created a wide and diversified context, in Federation, I welcome all to IFLA’s World Library which medieval libraries (mostly in monasteries and Information Congress in Milan, Italy. We and universities) live together with Renaissance are very grateful to the National Committee for libraries as well as modern libraries, whose their strong dedication to preparing this world efficient standards effectively promote public event for our profession. We all look forward reading and research. to dialogues, new insights and experiences,

2 Milan, as well as the whole of Lombardia and this Conference will be an opportunity to foster Italy, will do their best to welcome you warmly research and to share opinions and experiences and show you their most beautiful libraries – on how to improve library services. It is also ancient and modern – as well as valuable pieces anticipated that cooperation between cultural of art, music, fashion, design, landscape, food heritage institutions and knowledge content and wine, all things that contribute in making our providers will be improved as a result of this country famous throughout the world. event.

Come as many as you can! See you in Italy! See Every IFLA Conference is different, but the you in Milan in August 2009! participants have the opportunity to benefit from the international exchange of information that Mauro Guerrini results from the direct contact with the practice University of Florence and the philosophy of library services in different President of the Italian Library Association President of the Italian National Committee IFLA 2009 Milan contexts. As member of the IFLA Governing Board, I am very pleased that many important colleagues will come to my country, Italy. You will experience the importance of tradition and Words of welcome by Anna Maria continuity for libraries, visiting the libraries in Milan and the other Italian cities. You will also gain an Tammaro, IFLA Governing Board understanding of the challenges of combining Member tradition and innovation to support society needs. I am also sure that all the participants will Dear IFLA enjoy not only the Conference content but also colleagues, the friendliness of the people, the beauty of the city of Milan and its surroundings and the quality of life and food. The theme of this year IFLA World Library I look forward to meeting you in Milan, the 23-27 and Information of August, 2009. Please come in great numbers Conference has a to promote international cooperation in libraries focus on cultural and to reinforce the importance of the role of heritage. This theme libraries in the Knowledge Society is important for Anna Maria Tammaro Italy and Southern Member of the Governing Board Europe, where most of the ancient books and manuscripts are held, but this should not be misunderstood with a Acknowledgements to Institutions conservative approach to the profession, as a wish to looking to the past and forgetting the The National Committee gratefully present society. The cultural heritage institutions acknowledges the following institutions and have the role of delivering and communicating associations: the knowledge basis of the past and not only that of recording the memory. The present situation ABEI - Associazione Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche is very challenging for librarians and information Italiane professionals: there is the need of building a ANCI - Associazione Nazionale dei Comuni closer convergence of the cultural heritage d’Italia institutions and the need to ensure that they are Biblioteca Ambrosiana able to fully exploit the existing opportunities of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana digital technologies, for providing quality access Biblioteca centrale del CNR, Roma to all, as well as preserving the artefacts of the Biblioteca del Senato cultural heritage for the future. IFLA has been Biblioteca dell’Università Bocconi and continues to be very engaged in stimulating Biblioteca dell’Università cattolica del Sacro and promoting this important role of library and Cuore information professionals in the Knowledge Biblioteca dell’Università statale di Milano Society as agents of change and facilitators Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of learning and access for all. I am sure that Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze

3 Biblioteche civiche torinesi IMPORTANT DEADLINES Biblioteche comunali di Milano Biblioteche oggi Centro per il libro e la lettura • Guaranteed Hotel Booking Deadline – on or Comune di Milano before May 15, 2009 Conferenza episcopale italiana • Deadline for receipt of accepted papers at Coordinamento delle Regioni e Province IFLA HQ – on or before June 6, 2009 autonome CRUI – Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università For Registration: Italiane Discoteca di Stato • Early registration fee : on or before May 15, Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori 2009 Fondazione Biblioteca europea di informazione • Refund deadline for cancelled / altered e cultura registration: on or before May 15, 2009 Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica • After August 3, 2009: only on-site registration Contemporanea will be accepted Fondazione Per Leggere - Biblioteche Sud Ovest Milano ICCU – Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare Documents required in order to apply for Istituto Universitario Europeo a visa Mibac: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali: Direzione per i beni librari, gli lstituti culturali e il diritto d’autore 1. Form to require visa (Contact the Italian Provincia di Milano Embassy in your country for this form). Regione Lombardia 2. Photograph Università di Milano 3. Valid passport or equally recognized travel Università di Parma document. The document must be valid for at Università di Pavia least three months after the issue date of the Università di Pisa visa. Università di Roma “La Sapienza” 4. Valid, confirmed, return ticket or demonstration Unione delle Province Italiane of own means of transport 5. Proof of booked and confirmed accommodation in Italy (vouchers, hotel reservation, hosting declaration) 6. Demonstration to have sufficient financial Acknowledgements to Grant resources available to guarantee maintenance throughout the planned visit Institutions 7. Justified document of your social and professional status 8. Medical insurance for a minimum amount of The National Committee gratefully acknowledges €30.000, covering emergency hospitalization the following institutions and associations who and repatriation expenses. have made a financial contribution to the Note: When entering Italy, even if you have organization of the conference to date: already obtained a visa, the border authorities are authorized to check the documentation Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali required for obtaining the visa itself, so please make sure that you bring them together with Regione Lombardia your passport and visa. Provincia di Milano

Comune di Milano

Fondazione BEIC - Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura

4 Congress Sponsors Keynote Speaker at the Opening Session Platinum OCLC Gold ProQuest The National Committee is proud that to Silver Elsevier announce that Ms. Nicoletta Maraschio, Professor Silver Infor of History of the of the University of Florence has accepted the invitation to speak Associate Springer at the Opening Session. Associate Gale Cengage Learning Associate EBSCO Ms. Nicoletta Maraschio is the first female Associate Ex-Libris president of the since Associate Japan Science and Technology 1583. Agency Accademia della Crusca, litterally “The Bran ”, was founded in Florence between 1582 and 1583 on the initiative of five Florentine men of letters. The name derives from their lively meetings, playfully called “Cruscate” (Bran meetings) and come to signify the work of “cleaning up” the language (the bran is the part of the wheat that is discarded when the grain is cleaned up).

Its motto from a poem by Francesco Petrarca “Il più bel fiore ne coglie” (she picks up the fairest flower) and built up a rich symbology based on wheat and bread.

The main accomplishment of the Academy, the Vocabolario (dictionary dated 1612, reprinted and enlarged several times until 1923), though subject to criticism for the limits it imposed on living linguistic usage, made an exceptional contribution to the identification and diffusion of the Italian language and served as an example for the great dictionaries of French, Spanish, German and English.

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6 of a woman of the beginning of the century (the story starts on 1928) trough the descriptions of the Plenary Speakers mitteleuropean aristocracy, the city of , the During the week, there will be 3 plenary Chianti hills and the poetry of wine. sessions, held first thing in the morning. The Campiello Prize is a prestigious Italian literary prize awarded every year. A jury of Literary At this moment2 of the names have Experts identifies books published during the year and, during a public hearing, selects five of those been selected: as finalists.

Then a jury of 300 readers, representing different social, cultural and professional groups from Carla Fracci each region of Italy, decides the winner.

Carla Fracci (born in Milan, 20 August 1936). The word Campiello is the diminutive of campo. Italian dancer and director. She studied at “Alla Unlike other cities that use the word piazza Scala” School from 1946 with V.Volkova to designate square, Venice (where the first and others, graduating into the ballet company ceremony took place) uses the word campo, in 1954. In 1956 she was promoted soloist and in and campiello is a little square. 1958 principal, becoming estabilished as Italy’s leading ballerina but also as the first Italian dancer The first award was given to Primo Levi for his to win an international reputation in the 20th autobiographical book “La Tregua”. century. She performed with clamorous success on every stage worldwide, dancing both classic repertories, as well as contemporary ballet. Satellite Meetings

“Carla Fracci is lighter than air, more delicate 1. Emerging trends in technology: libraries than a sigh”, this is one of the many ways in which between Web 2.0, semantic web and search critics describe one of the greatest ballerinas of technology the century. Acclaimed for her performances Dates: 19-20 August 2009 in and la Syphide, the Eleonora Duse of Location: Florence, Italy Dance, the most exquisite expression of the pure Contact person: Alenka Kavcic Colic, alenka. romantic style. [email protected] Website: www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it She appeared with many Companies abroad, Audience: Librarians and information specialists including London Festival Ballet, Royal Swedish Sponsors: IFLA Information Technology Section Ballet, and from 1967 she was and Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale principal guest artist of the . 2. Reading in the Digital Age: educating the passionate and critical reader through the In 1990 she was the director of ballet in San Carlo school library Theatre of , in 1995 of the Verona Ballet Dates: 1 September 2009 Theatre. Location: University of Padua, Italy Contact person: Karen Usher, karen@usher43. Currently she is the director of the ballet company karoo.co.uk of the Opera Theatre of Rome. Website: not available Audience: Local School Librarians and IFLA delegates Sponsors: IFLA School Libraries and Resource Benedetta Cibrario Centers Section Co-sponsors: International Association of School Libraries Benedetta Cibrario, an Italian writer, was born in Florence (1960). She won the Campiello Prize 3. Looking at the Past and Preparing for the 2008 with her novel: Rosso Vermiglio, her first work. Future The novel tells the complicate story about the life

7 Dates: 20-21 August 2009 Co-sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Location: Florence, Italy Bonn, Consortium of European Research Contact person: Patrice Landry, Patrice. Libraries, IFLA Preservation and Conservation [email protected] Programme (PAC) Website: www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it Audience: Subject indexers, library 7. Libraries and Society: A Pan-Mediterranean administrators, librarians perspective Sponsors: IFLA Classification and Indexing Dates: 31 August – 1 September 2009 Section Location: Palermo, Italy Co-sponsors: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Contact Person: Domenico Ciccarello, Firenze [email protected] Website: not available 4. Art and History: sharing Sources in Audience: Library Institutions dealing with International Research Networks users and collections from the Mediterranean Dates: 19-20 August 2009 area; librarians planning service development Location: Florence, Italy expecting to benefit patrons in terms of Contact person: Jan Simane, [email protected] improving intercultural dialogue; managers from Website: not available public and private institutions interested in Audience: art librarians, visual resources pan-Mediterranean issues specialists Sponsors: IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Sponsors: IFLA Art Libraries Section Populations Section Co-sponsors: Italian Library Association, 5. Raising a Nation of Readers: Libraries as University of Palermo, Regione Siciliana Partners in National Reading Projects and Programmes 8. Moving in, moving up, and moving on: Dates: 19-20 August 2009 strategies for regenerating the library & Location: Goethe Institut, Rome, Italy information profession Contact person: Letizia Tarantello, l.tarantello@ Dates: 19-20 August 2009, with opening bibliotechediroma.it reception event 18 August (evening) Website: not available Location: Bologna, Italy Audience: Librarians from national, public, Contact persons: Roisin Gwyer, Roisin. children’s and school libraries, LIS students and [email protected], and Loida Garcia-Fedo, professors, agencies, NGO’s and IGO’s active in [email protected] national and international reading campaigns Website: www.ifla.org/VII/s43/index.htm Sponsors: IFLA Literacy and Reading Section Audience: Anyone who is interested in issues and Libraries for Children & Young Adults of professional, workplace, individual and/or Section organisational development. Anyone interested Co-sponsors: Istituzione Biblioteche del Comune in issues of working and managing across di Roma, Goethe Institut Italien, Associazione generations (at individual, organisational and Italiana Biblioteche whole-of-profession level) Sponsors: IFLA Continuing Professional 6. Early printed books as material objects Development & Workplace Learning Section Dates: 19-21 August 2009 and IFLA New Professional Discussion Group Location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany 9. Libraries Plus: Adding value in the cultural Contact person: Bettina Wagner, bettina. community: the 8th Northumbria International [email protected] Conference on Performance Measurement in Website: http://www.bsb-muenchen. Libraries and Information Services de/339.0.html?L=3 Dates: 17-20 August 2009 Audience: Librarians involved in cataloguing, Location: Fiesole, Florence, Italy digitization and preservation of rare books Contact person: Michael Heaney, michael. (especially early printed books), book historians, [email protected] conservators Website: www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it Sponsors: IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Audience: Library and Information professionals Section in all sectors of library and information services

8 and research and teaching staff librario, Rome, Italy Sponsors: Northumbria University with the IFLA Contact person: Per Cullhed, per.cullhed@ Statistics and Evaluation Section ub.uu.se and Christiane Baryla christiane. Co-sponsors: Northumbria University School [email protected] of Computing, Engineering and Information Website: not available Sciences; University of Parma Department of Audience: librarians, conservators and others Cultural Heritage; University of Bologna; and with an interest in the ALM-sector preservation Istituto degli Innocenti problems and solutions Sponsors: IFLA Preservation and Conservation 10. P3 Conference: better library services for Section print-disabled people through partnerships with Co-sponsors: IFLA Preservation and Publishers and Public Libraries Conservation Programme (PAC) Dates: 17-20 August 2009 Location: 17-19 Aug: Mechelen (Belgium) & 20 13. The present becomes the past: harvesting, Aug: Maastricht (Netherlands) archiving and presenting today’s digitally Contact person: Koen Krikhaar, p3conference@ produced newspapers dedicon.nl Dates: 19-20 August 2009 Website: not available Location: Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden Audience: Specialist libraries/library services for Contact person: Ed King, [email protected] blind and print disabled people; public libraries; Website: not available publishers; organisations of and for blind and Audience: newspaper publishers, libraries/ print disabled people librarians, archivists, software providers Sponsors: IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section Sponsors: IFLA Newspapers Section Co-sponsors: Luisterpunt (Flemish Library Co-sponsors: IFLA Preservation and for Audiobooks and Braille) & Netherlands: Conservation Programme (PAC) Dedicon, Loket Aangepast Lezen(Library for Print-disabled), Public Library Association 14. Preserving the cultural legacy of serials: from conservation (print and manuscript) to 11. Libraries as Space and Place reformatting (many formats) to digital (bytes) Dates: 19-21 August 2009 Dates: 19-20 August 2009 Location: Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Location: Bolzano, Italy Turin, Italy Contact person: Ann Okerson, ann.okerson@ Contact person: John Lake, John.Lake@ yale.edu cityoflondon.gov.uk Website: www.library.yale.edu/socrspre2009 Website: not available Audience: serials librarians interested in tools, Audience: all library and information techniques, and most current practices for professionals concerned with planning library making serials available to the worldwide spaces, new buildings and services in new reader community in perpetuity; the papers buildings and spaces will focus on choices to be made, pros and Sponsors: IFLA Academic and Research Libraries cons, of different approaches; and will highlight Section with IFLA Public Libraries Section, IFLA successful projects and partnerships Library Theory and Research Section, IFLA Sponsors: IFLA Serials and other Continuing Library Buildings and Equipment Section, and Resources Section IFLA Management and Marketing Section Co-sponsors: Regione Piemonte, Biblioteche 15. Building Bridges: Connecting the Soul and Civiche Torinesi (Turin Public Libraries), and Spirit of LIS Education in Developing Countries Italian Library Association Regional Section Dates: 19-21 August 2009 Piemonte Location: Aula Magna, University Milan, Italy Contact person: Ismail Abdullahi, iabdullahi@ 12. Conservation and preservation of library NCCU.EDU material in a Website: not available cultural-heritage oriented context Sponsors: IFLA LIS Education in Developing Dates: 31 August-1 September 2009 Countries Discussion Group, IFLA Division for Location: Istituto centrale per il restauro e la Regional Activities conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e

9 16. Digital information for democracy: knowledge management in order to improve management, access and preservation user services? Date: 21 August 2009 Dates: 19-21 August 2009 Location: Goethe Institute, Milan, Italy Location: The Italian joint Parliamentary Library, Contact Person: Elisabeth Freyre, elisabeth. Rome, Italy [email protected] Contact person: Raissa Teodori, preifla2009@ parlamento.it Website: www.ifla-km.org Website: www.preifla2009.parlamento.it Audience: KM specialists; reference librarians, Audience: Parliamentary Library and Research special librarians and researchers Service Directors, managers and, staff as well as Sponsors: IFLA Knowledge Management Section interested parliamentarians Sponsors: IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Overview of Congress Programmes 17. Religion, Intellectual Freedom and Libraries Dates: 19-20 August 2009 Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) with Location: Tempio di Adriano, Rome, Italy Academic and Research Libraries Contact Person: Paul Sturges, r.p.sturges@lboro. Libraries and mass digitisation: Intellectual ac.uk and Igino Poggiali, iginopoggiali@yahoo. property challenges it Website: not available Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) with Audience: Attendants to the IFLA Milano 2009 Free Access to Information and Freedom of Congress, librarians from public, university Expression (FAIFE) and national institutions. Researchers on Libraries and the Internet: public policy human rights studies and constitutional challenges studies, teachers, representatives of the three monotheist religions: Christian, Hebrew and Free Access to Information and Freedom of Islamic, other interested participants Expression (FAIFE) Sponsors: IFLA/FAIFE: Free Access to Information Library workplace ethics and Freedom of Expression Programme Co-sponsors: Istituzione Biblioteche di Roma, IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategy (ICADS) (Università Roma Tre, Provincia di Roma to be Digital preservation and the new website confirmed), Articolo 21 UNIMARC 18. Service Strategies for Libraries in libraries UNIMARC and the future of catalogues Dates: 19 -21 August 2009 Location: Athens, Greece Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Contact Person: Christie Koontz, [email protected]. Convergence in preservation research between edu, Antonia Arahova, [email protected], libraries, archives and museums and Àngels Massísimo, [email protected] Website: not available National Libraries Audience: Librarians in Public or/and Academic National libraries in the digital age: leadership Libraries, from Library Associations – with and collaboration emphasis on attendants from Eastern/Southern Europe, the Middle East and Northern African Academic and Research Libraries countries Hot topics in academic and research libraries: Sponsors: IFLA Management and Marketing discussion with experts and colleagues Section Co-sponsors: IFLA Management of Library Library and Research Services for Parliaments Associations Section; Greek Ministry of and Library History Education and Religious affairs Changing visions: parliamentary libraries past, present and the future 19. Removing Barriers to Knowledge Sharing: How can social tools be used to facilitate Government Libraries

10 Transforming learning cultures: government multicultural heritage libraries as the treasures within Division IV - Bibliographic Control Social Science Libraries New bibliographic control principles and The convergence of the social science guidelines libraries with libraries, archives and museums in Bibliography preserving cultural heritage Promoting and preserving national bibliographies, our testimony of cultural heritage Geography and Map Libraries, Science and Technology and Division of Special Libraries Cataloguing Cultural heritage preserved: the role of digital New principles, new rules for new catalogues maps Classification and Indexing Science and Technology Libraries Foundation to build future subject access Open access to science and technology research worldwide: strategies and best Knowledge Management practices Knowledge Advocacy

Health and Biosciences Libraries Knowledge Management, Library and Research Consumer health: health literacy, patient Services for Parliaments and Information empowerment and health promotion Technology Social computing tools for learning and Art Libraries knowledge sharing Art libraries and cultural heritage: select, collect and connect Acquisition and Collection Development An e-book kaleidoscope: multiples perspectives Genealogy and Local History on libraries’ experiences with e-books Opening up our cultural heritage through digitization and collaboration Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Law Libraries The interlending, document delivery and Law libraries in Italy resource sharing tradition: evolving with the The Italian legal system, basics and new trends changing knowledge economy

Public Libraries and Metropolitan Libraries Serials and Other Continuing Resources The future of metropolitan public libraries Serials in the 21st century: new concepts, new challenges Library Services to People with Special needs Reading and literacy promotion in prison: model Government Information and Official library programmes Publications Government publications as cultural heritage: Libraries for Children and Young Adults and preserving the past, keeping up with the Library Buildings and Equipment present, embracing the future If I was the director Rare Books and Manuscripts, Preservation and School Libraries and Resource Centers Conservation and Library History How heritage is presented and promoted Dispersed cultural collections. Preservation, through school libraries – continuing themes of reconstruction and access the use of technology and information literacy Reference and Information Services Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities The pro-active librarian: the how and why Using technology to give the past a future: the journey from Braille to XML Newspapers Newspapers in the Mediterranean and the Library Services to Multicultural Populations evolution of the modern state Creativity and the arts: libraries building on

11 Information Technology Literacy and Reading and Information Literacy New repositories: architectures interoperability Libraries promoting twenty-first century literacies and data exchange Information Literacy Statistics and Evaluation Promoting the Information Literacy Logo Toolkit Statistics on the agenda Continuing Professional Development and Statistics and Evaluation, Information Workplace Learning with New Professionals SIG Technology and Preservation and Conservation Creating a positive work environment for a Statistics for the cultural heritage multi-generational library and information workforce Management and Marketing and Academic and Research Libraries Division VIII - Regional Activities Where do we stand? Where do we want to be Libraries on the cultural agenda: regional in 10 years? comparisons

Audiovisual and Multimedia and Bibliographic Africa Control Building on cultural heritage from the African Herding cats in a dust-storm: bibliographic classical world to the 21st century control of audiovisual and multimedia materials in time of rapid change Asia and Oceania Preserving the past – creating the future Audiovisual and Multimedia AV Collections for non-specialist librarians Latin America and Caribbean (UNESCO CCAAA) Preserving and conserving the cultural heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean Management of Library Associations, Continuing Professional Development and Access to Information Network – Africa (ATINA) Workplace Learning and ALP Theme to be announced Librarians on the catwalk: communicating for advocacy to influence policy and practice Agricultural Libraries Worldwide trends in open access to agricultural Management of Library Associations, information Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and ALP E-Learning Librarians on the catwalk: communicating for Lifelong e-learning and libraries advocacy to influence policy and practice E-Learning, Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, Management of Library Associations Information Technology, Library Theory and Training Session on Library Association Research, ICADS Leadership Digital libraries towards users expectations

Education and Training E-metrics The role of library and cultural institutions E-metrics professionals in cultural heritage: education for the convergence of Libraries, Archives and Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Museums (LAM) Theme to be announced

Education and Training Indigenous Matters Recognition of qualifications and quality of LIS Theme to be announced education: the Bologna process challenges in a changing world LIS Education in Developing Countries Preparing future librarians in developing Library Theory and Research countries: a vision for LIS education in the 21st Research into open access century

12 Libraries and the Web 2.0 Contact Information The library 2.0 project showroom National Committee IFLA 2009 Library History IFLA 2009 Milan, Italy Italian collections around the world Associazione Italiana Biblioteche E-mail: [email protected] National Organisations and International Website: www.ifla2009.it Relations International relations and national IFLA Headquarters organisations P.O. Box 95312 2509 CH The Hague The Netherlands IFLA Headquarters at the World Library Tel: +31 (0) 70 314 0884 Fax: +31 (0) 70 383 4827 and Information Congress 2009! Website: www.ifla.org E-mail: [email protected] During the congress the IFLA Staff will be at your service to provide you with a wide range IFLA Congress 2009 Secretariat of information about the work of IFLA, joining c/o 4B, 50 Speirs Wharf IFLA and becoming actively involved. This is an Port Dundas excellent opportunity to get answers to all your Glasgow questions. IFLA staff will be available at the IFLA G4 9TH, Scotland secretariat or at the IFLA exhibition booth. Tel: +44 (0) 141 331 0123 Fax: +44 (0) 207 117 4561 Website Email: [email protected] Website: www.congrex.com

IFLA has its own website: www.ifla.org which Congrex Travel (Accomodation) is the first point of easy access for conference c/o 4B, 50 Speirs Wharf matters, you can find the Milan Congress on the Port Dundas main page and clicking on that will link you to Glasgow information on registration, hotels, tours, library G4 9TH, Scotland visits, exhibition etc. as well as online registration Tel: +44 (0) 207 112 1860 forms and the programme outline. Fax: +44 (0) 207 117 4561 We are hoping to have the full programme with Email: [email protected] all the details available online in April.

Submitting Conference papers

The conference programme consists of a multitude of open sessions which are organised by different professional groups (Sections, Core Activities, Special Interest Groups). Please note that all papers have to be submitted to one of these groups. However, please also note that most of the programme has been established already. All papers approved for presentation at the conference must be registered and coded at IFLA Headquarters. Only those papers received by IFLA no later than 1 June 2009 will be available to conference participants. Individuals invited to speak at the World Library and Information Congress do not receive any funding. Attendance is at their own expense.

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