Summer 2010 Multicultural Populations will be presenting on the IFLA CHAIR’S COLUMN Multicultural Manifesto which Inside this Issue: By: Mijin Kim was endorsed by UNESCO this past Fall. On Friday, August 13, IFLA 2010 in The Indigenous Matters Special 1 Chair’s Column – Mijin Kim Gothenburg, Interest Group will be holding a Sweden is just session entitled, “Driving issues Biography: Oksana around the in Indigenous Matters in 2 Aleksandrovna Chuvilskaya corner! It is hard Librarianship: Language, Standing Committee Midyear to believe that is Outreach, Protocols and Key 2 Meeting in Moscow, Russia has been a year Questions”. Highlights of the Midyear since we were in sunny Milan. 4 Meeting In Moscow We are looking forward to seeing On Saturday, August 14, the Intercultural Session in committee members, colleagues Section will be holding a half day 4 Leipzig and friends from far and wide. joint session with the Literacy Multicultural Communities: and Reading Section on 5 Guidelines for Library In Gothenburg, we have many “Libraries promoting reading in a Services, 3 rd edition events planned and we hope multicultural, multilingual that you will join us at our The EU Lifelong Learning society”. Finally, on Sunday 6 Project meetings, in our sessions or in August 15, we will be holding a the hallways of the conference joint session with the Libraries Multicultural Issues on the centre to discuss the for Children and Young Adults 8 WLIC in Gothenburg accomplishments of the section Session. The full conference Library Services to and share new ideas. program can be found at: Multicultural Populations: http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76 . 8 Satellite Conference in Copenhagen After the main IFLA 2010 Library Services to Congress, because the topic of Multicultural Populations: Multicultural Libraries is so rich 9 th 30 Anniversary Celebration and multifaceted, the IFLA Section on Library Services to IFLA SIG on Indigenous Multicultural Populations will be 9 Matters holding a Satellite Post Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 16 - 18 The Newsletter is the official publication of the entitled, “Libraries in a IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Society, Multicultural Populations. The Newsletter is made available to all Possibilities for the Future”. The Section members as a benefit of membership. The Section is starting the Conference is presented by the Articles for publication and/or requests for conference by holding a full day information should be sent to Vickery Bowles Copenhagen Public Library and at [email protected] meeting on Tuesday, August Danish Library Centre for th 10 , offsite at the Västra Integration. Information on the EDITOR: Vickery Bowles Götaland Regional Library. Our DESIGN & PRODUCTION: Tina Ma conference can be found at: meetings are open to observers http://www.iflacopenhagen.com . so please let us know if you are Thank you to the conference interested in attending. committee! During conference, the Section In addition to the conference, the is involved in numerous Section meets around the end of sessions. On Thursday, August th February beginning of March for 12 at 11:00 am at the UNESCO a midyear meeting. A lot of the Open Forum, the IFLA Section business of the Section occurs on Library Services to during our midyear meetings as Library Services to Multicultural Populations we dialogued with most of the STANDING COMMITTEE …CHAIR’S COLUMN CONT’D major libraries in Russia and MIDYEAR MEETING IN Russian government officials on well as our outreach and the status and vision of Russian MOSCOW, RUSSIA networking activities. This past th libraries. It was a truly unique February 26 to February, we had the pleasure th and educational experience for March 4 , 2010 of holding our midyear meeting all of us. in Moscow, Russia. By: Galina Raykova and Svetlana Gorokhova All of our hosts were incredibly The All Russia State Library for warm and generous and we Foreign Literature served as our thank everyone who worked In August 2009, at IFLA’s annual hosts for our meetings and we hard to ensure our midyear congress in Milan, Standing would like to express our meeting was a success. Special Committee of IFLA Section on warmest gratitude to Svetlana thanks, however, must be made Library Services to Multicultural Gorokhova, Deputy Director and to Galina Raykova and Irina Populations took a decision to Section member. In addition to Gayshun of the Russian State hold the next midyear meeting in the All Russia State Library for Library, and Oksana Moscow, Russia. There are Foreign Literature, we met with Chuvilskaya and Maria Koxlova three Russian SC members at staff and visited the beautiful of the Central Universal the moment and all are from Russian State Library, the Scientific Library. It was an Moscow, representing a variety Russian State Library for the unforgettable visit! of libraries – Russian State Youth and the Memorial Library, Library for Foreign Museum and Scientific Library Minutes from our meetings, Literature and one of Moscow Dom Gogolya. conference information and all of municipal libraries - N. A. our documents and publications Nekrasov Central Universal The Central Universal Scientific can be found on our website: Scientific Library. Such good Library named after Nekrasov http://www.ifla.org/en/mcultp . representation of Moscow also held a round table session libraries allowed the Standing with our Section members where Committee to hope for a fruitful New Member Biography: meeting in Moscow in 2010. Oksana Aleksandrovna Chuvilskaya It was very difficult for many Standing Committee members to source sufficient funding to travel to Russia or simply find a slot in their very busy professional schedules to spare several days, so we are very grateful to those who managed to participate and share the latest developments with us and our Russian Oksana Aleksandrovna Chuvilskaya was born in April 27, 1979. She colleagues. graduated from Moscow Library College in 1999, then Moscow State University of Culture and Arts in 2003 (Library Science Department). The decision to hold a meeting in Russia made us feel very Since 2005, she has been working in the Nekrasov Central Universal special and we tried to do our Scientific Library, since 2007- as a Deputy Director for scientific research. In 2005, Oksana took part in “The Best Librarian of the Year” competition best to make this visit both and became the winner. She was a member of the project development fruitful and enjoyable for work team for “The concept on information and library policy in Moscow everyone. The working group in up to 2015” and Moscow’s law in draft on library information service. Russia started to plan the meeting in autumn, straight after At present, Oksana is a post-graduate student, the subject of her thesis returning from Milan. Working for her Ph.D. is connected with legal regulations of megalopolis public together made our network libraries management. In 2009, Oksana was appointed General Director stronger and contacts closer, of the Library. which became another 2 wonderful side benefit of the The group spent first part of the populations in large urban areas. meeting. third day of the midyear meeting Library staff, representatives of at the Russian State Library. the Moscow government and Six SC representatives managed We visited the Center of Oriental heads of national diaspora came to travel to see us in Moscow: Studies – an example of library together to talk about how Section Chair Mijin Kim; Loriene services to a multicultural municipal libraries could help Roy; Ann Katrin Ursberg; population. Next, the luxury of people living in large cities feel Susana Alegre Landaburu; Pashkov House was viewed. It at home and included in the Yasuko Hirata and Susy is one of Moscow’s most famous social life around them. Tastesen. Moscow SC buildings belonging to the Discussion allowed all of us to members – Galina Raykova, Russian State Library located enrich our arsenal of forms we Svetlana Gorokhova and Oxana across the road from the can use in our work. Everyone Chuvilskaya – joined them at the Kremlin. The main building of was very grateful to our recent meetings. the Library impressed us with a SC member Oxana Chuvilskaya, great mixture of old interiors and Director of N. A. Nekrasov The first two days the group new technologies. It was a Library, for this wonderful spent at the All Russia State wonderful professional visit – a opportunity. Library for Foreign Literature at a great time for discussions and non-stop SC meeting. We were the sharing of information. A round table and visit to N. A. welcomed by Deputy Director Nekrasov Library was followed General of All Russia State After visiting the Russian State by the tour of the House of Library for Foreign Literature Library, the group went to see Gogol – a memorial and Olga Sinitsyna with a detailed one of the recently renovated scientific library at the same tour of the Library – a leading Russian Federal libraries – time. Director of the House of cultural international Russian State Library for the Gogol, Vera Vikulova, showed communication center, an Youth. This library struck our us around the institution and acknowledged center of imagination with its endless gave us a great review of the intercultural dialogue. Then the aspiration to use the latest activities. group started the meeting with technologies to provide better Mijin Kim’s report on the Milan services to its patrons and to Apart from the professional session. Ann Katrin Ursberg make them feel at home at the program, SC members enjoyed reported on the Palermo satellite Library. Every detail of the a rich selection of cultural meeting; Susana Alegre also interior, every professional events, among them concerts of updated us on section movement is aimed at attracting Russian folk art, the ballet developments and Susy readers to the Library, helping “Esmeralda”, a tour of the Tastesen provided a financial them get necessary information.