IFLA 2010 Conference Coverage

At the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, Françoise Beaulieu-Thybulle, director of National Library of Haiti, and Elizabeth Pierre-Louis, program director for...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:09  |  Read More >>
At the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, IFLA President Ellen Tise of South Africa shares what she’s learned from her first year as IFLA president,...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 12:07  |  Read More >>
At the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, Mexican Library Association President Jesus Lau talks about how his library has benefited from his international...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 09:58  |  Read More >>
At the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress, AL editor Leonard Kniffel talks to Ioannis Trohopoulos, director of the public library in Veria, Greece, which won the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 09:56  |  Read More >>
ALA delegates Molly Raphael, Keith Michael Fiels, James Neal, Roberta Stevens.
Everyone knows that the real IFLA action is in the divisions, sections, and committee meetings; for that reason, the August 14 General Assembly of the 76th World Library and Information...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 12:20  |  Read More >>
The exhibit hall at IFLA in Sweden.
During one of the IFLA sessions here in Gothenburg, Sweden, I took a seat in what turned out to be a lousy place for the acoustics. Major programs during this year's World Library and Information...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 14:50  |  Read More >>
Françoise Beaulieu-Thybulle (left) and Elizabeth Pierre-Louis
On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake turned an ordinary day into a day of horror and destruction for Haiti. On the fourth day of the 76th General Conference and Assembly of the International...
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 16:55  |  Read More >>
IFLA President Ellen Tise (center)  looks on as Ismail Serageldin and Jennefer N
Day three of the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) was a day of awards, honors, and the announcement of new...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 13:36  |  Read More >>
Jan Eliasson
It began with the guitar stylings of Thomas Andersson, crested with a keynote address by Jan Eliasson, former president of the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and ended with a...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 16:35  |  Read More >>
American IFLA delegates (from left) Loida Garcia- Febo, Winston Tabb, Carla Funk
For American delegates, the annual conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) traditionally begins with a pep talk, officially known as “Caucus:...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 00:30  |  Read More >>
Paris, 1989: The Pyramid at the Louvre remains arguably the most spectacular ven
For many years after the 1991 conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions in Moscow, longtime IFLA-goers who witnessed the coup d’etat that broke out there in...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 14:40  |  Read More >>