ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 72 | December 2004
Conference of Directors of National Libraries
The Director-General, Jan Fullerton, completed her four-year term
as Chair of the Conference
of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) at the 31st meeting held in
CDNL provides directors of national libraries with an opportunity to discuss issues affecting national libraries and, where appropriate, to agree on collaborative activities at the international level. CDNL has a close link with IFLA and strongly supports IFLA’s core activity programs. Most recently members of CDNL have formed a new core program, the IFLA/CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) which addresses issues related to the collection, preservation and provision of access to digital materials. The National Library of Australia is a member of ICABS and takes responsibility for web archiving matters.
Members of the IFLA Governing Board attend CDNL to discuss IFLA activities
and to receive feedback on issues of importance to national libraries. At the
meeting in
Members of CDNL were welcomed to the 31st meeting by Mr Elvio Vitali, Director
of the Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica
There was also a lively panel discussion on issues affecting national libraries in the twenty-first century with brief presentations from Dr Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress, and Dr Jean-Frederic Jauslin, Director, Schweizerische Landesbibliothek. Presentations were also made during the meeting on the following topics: the Economic Impact Assessment of the British Library (Ms Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive Officer, the British Library); the recent merger of the national archives and national library in Canada to form Library and Archives Canada (Ms Ingrid Parent, Assistant Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage, Library and Archives Canada); and the European Library (Dr Elisabeth Niggemann, Director General, Die Deutsche Bibliothek).
Members elected a new chair, and two new vice-chairs to replace Dr Christopher
Chia who had completed his term as Chief Executive of the National Library Board
of Singapore and Dr Wim van Drimmelen, Director General, Koninklijke Bibliotheek,
who had filled the position of CDNL First Vice-Chair for eight years. The new
Chair is Dr Celia Zaher, Director, National Library Foundation of
Postscript: Leaving the National Library of Argentina at
—Jasmine
Cameron, Executive and Coordination Support
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