ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 59| October 2002
68th International Federation of Library Associations Conference: Glasgow
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(left to right)Elizabeth Watt, Assistant Secretary CDNL; Jan Fullerton, Director-General NLA and Chair of CDNL; Peter Lor, National Librarian, National Library of South Africa, at the IFLA reception at the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
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The 68th annual conference of the International Federation of Library Associations was held in Glasgow from 18–24 August, 2002. The conference theme was Libraries for Life: Democracy, Diversity and Delivery. In addition to the wide variety of sessions hosted by the IFLA Core Activity groups, there were special meetings relating to mobile libraries and children’s libraries, with a model children’s library on display in the Exhibition Hall. Over 4500 attendees spent an almost rain-free week in Glasgow, with many also taking the opportunity to travel to Edinburgh for a reception at the National Museums of Scotland and the Military Tattoo. The 75th anniversary of the decision, made in Edinburgh in 1927, to found IFLA was also celebrated with special events during the conference.
The IFLA Section on National Libraries hosted several sessions including ‘Legal Deposit and Copyright Laws: How they meet the National Libraries Mission’; a joint session with the Section on Bibliography entitled ‘Bibliographic Control or Chaos? How to treat remote electronic resources in the (national) bibliographies’ and a joint session with the Section on Information Technology on the theme ‘Capturing the Web: Learning from experience in the national libraries’.
The 69th annual IFLA Conference will be held in Berlin
from 1–9 August 2003.
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