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5th CDNLAO Meeting Recommendations

Towards the year 2000: Vision and Reality

The 5th Conference of Directors of National Libraries of Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) Meeting in Kuala Lumpur from 23-26 November 1992:

  1. Reiterates the recommendations of the previous four meetings of CDNLAO and urges that governments and National Libraries take steps to implement them. To ensure implementation, a status report should be submitted by respective countries at the 6th CDNLAO Meeting.
  2. The 5th CDNLAO also recommends that:
    1. Countries that have yet to legislate legal deposit laws should enact suitable legislation. Legal deposit legislations should cover the deposit of all forms of library materials.
    2. National Libraries should supplement legal deposit legislation with other means of acquiring national imprints, and accordingly allocate appropriate funds.
    3. All countries should formulate national preservation policies and make available funds for the preservation treatment of relevant library materials.
    4. A third PAC centre in Asia and Oceania region specialising in the preservation of materials in tropical environment should be established under IFLA core program.
    5. All National Libraries develop strategic plans and implement them within a specific time frame.
    6. All National Libraries market themselves with the objective of creating awareness of the importance and role of National Libraries among community and political leaders in order to secure funding support.
    7. National Libraries should use technology where appropriate to improve their services.
    8. National Libraries with developed automation systems and databases should establish links to enable access to each other's databases and networks to facilitate resource sharing through electronic means.
    9. National Libraries with collections in similar languages and scripts establish electronic linkages for mutual access and benefit.
    10. National Libraries should adopt a business-like approach in the administration and financial management of their libraries.
    11. National Libraries should examine alternative means of funding such as collaborating with private sectors and raising revenue from services.
    12. Promotion of reading habit is a national responsibility to be carried out collectively by the National Library and related organisations such as National Book Development Councils, Department of Education, Publishers, Booksellers, Library Associations and Parent Teachers Associations.
    13. National Libraries should recognise that young people are the future leaders and reading programs be targeted at this group.
    14. National Libraries in countries with high literacy rates should organise programs specifically to increase the level of functional literacy.
    15. National Libraries initiate and sustain library programs with the support of local leaders and participation of local communities.
    16. Appreciating National Diet Library's efforts in the publication of CDNLAO Newsletter as a means of communications amongst members, National Libraries need to contribute material to ensure its effectiveness.
    17. CDNLAO formulates clear objectives by December 1993 to decide on its future role.
    18. The next host country for the 6th CDNLAO Meeting be China and that the meeting be held in Beijing as Pre-Conference of the IFLA General Meeting, in Beijing in 1996.

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