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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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