Details of the IFLA 2002 Conference now available

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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and UK Children's Laureate Anne Fine
will be special guest speakers at the 68th General Conference of the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA),
to take place in Glasgow, Scotland  from 18-24 August.  Mr Heaney will
deliver the opening lecture and novelist Anne Fine will be presenting a
guest lecture.

"For many of us, IFLA 2002 will be the most diverse and wide-ranging
library and information event to take place in the UK during our
professional lives," says National Organising Committee Co-Chair Ian
McGowan.  "The opportunity to take part, meet colleagues from all parts of
the world and benefit from the perspective they bring to our professional
concerns, learn from others and pass on what we have learned - all these
make IFLA a top priority for hard-pressed conference and professional
development budgets."

With a conference theme 'Libraries for life: democracy, diversity,
delivery', there is also a sub-theme 'Building on the past - investing in
the future', which will provide a common thread for the plenary sessions,
such as those to be addressed by Seamus Heaney and Anne Fine.  "Satellite
meetings will also reflect this theme," Mr McGowan says, "providing an
opportunity to consider, for example, how librarians help young people to
recognise when information is needed, and then how to find, evaluate and
use it effectively."

Social events will have a distinctively Scottish flavour, with receptions
at Glasgow's newly opened Science Centre and Edinburgh's Museum of
Scotland, and the option of a seat on the Edinburgh Castle esplanade for
the Military Tattoo.  For representatives of Carnegie libraries from around
the world, a special programme will commemorate the Scottish-born
philanthropist's extraordinary impact on public libraries.

With a major international trade exhibition, visits to a wide variety of
library and information centres in the central Belt of Scotland, and the
staging of one of the largest ever meetings of mobile libraries, "it seems
excessively modest to describe IFLA as a single event," Mr McGowan
concludes.  "In fact, many of IFLA's constituent parts could plausibly
claim to be conferences in their own right."

IFLA 2002 is doubly significant because it marks the 75th anniversary of
the foundation of the Federation, in Edinburgh in 1927, and it also
coincides with the 125th anniversary of the Library Association and the
year of its unification with the Institute of Information Scientists to
form CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals.

Contact: Josche Neven  IFLA HQ
Tel: +(31) (70) 3140884
Email: josche.neven at ifla.nl <mailto:josche.neven at ifla.nl>

Alison Minns  UK
Tel: + (44)(0)1273 643942
Email: aem at bton.ac.uk <mailto:aem at bton.ac.uk>

Notes

Further information on IFLA can be found on its Website - www.ifla.org.
Contact The Library Association at ifla at la-hq.org.uk for further details on
the professional programme and practical information on registration and
accommodation.

The Library Association, which is managing the 2002 IFLA conference and
exhibition on behalf of IFLA's National Organising Committee, is a major
Membership body for library and information professionals with approaching
24,000 Members.  In April, it unifies with the Institute of Information
Scientists to form CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals.  Further information is available on its
Website - www.la-hq.org.uk.



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