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Presidential NewsletterNo. 2 February 2008Dear IFLA Members,
On February 21 – 22, the second presidential meeting took part in Berlin. The Presidential meeting is a conference sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Germany during the years of my presidency. This meeting is held on the premises of the Federal Foreign Ministry – very close to one part of my library. This year the German Research Foundation, DFG, was a Co-Sponsor along with the German Library umbrella organisation BID – Bibliothek Information Deutschland and its committee Bibliothek – Information – International. Besides the main topic, Putting ‘Libraries on the Agenda‘, the need to put the Digital Library on the Agenda was expressed by many speakers. Most of the papers are in English, even when the title is in German: www.ifla-deutschland.de/de/ifla_praesidentschaft/programm_2008.html I attended the Medium-Term meeting and Seminar of the IFLA Library of the Blind Section "Taking advantage of co-operation Introducing DAISY and IFLA", held in Zagreb on February, 27 – 28. I was very impressed by the quality of the reports from the different East European Countries and the achievements made. Many of our blind colleagues took part in the meeting and gave speeches at this conference about the future developments through high technical standards for the blind. My talk was about ‘Putting libraries for the blind and print disabled on the political agenda‘. The visit to a very modern library for the blind in Zagreb was another highlight of the meeting. You will find here a short report on the meeting. With best wishes to all of you Claudia Lux February 2008 The Letter of the President "LOP" is distributed at least once a month providing an overview of some of the current activities of the IFLA President, President Elect, the Governing Board and the Headquarters. It contains LINKS for further consultation and will be sent to IFLA-L and all other mailing lists organised by IFLA. Concise (one page), with no illustrations or special layout, it should cause no reception problems. |
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In February, I stayed in
Berlin most of the time; nevertheless there were quite a few IFLA
activities. On February 6, a small group of the IFLA GB met in the
Central- and Regional Library of Berlin to work on the new IFLA
Statutes. Nancy Gwinn, Bob McKee, Barbara Schleihagen and I sat
together and worked on a new version of the statutes to present to our
lawyers. Our aim was to have a clear distinction between the IFLA
Statutes and the Rules of Procedure. In March, Peter and I were busy in
completing the statutes according to Dutch law before we could send the
final version. I think the exercise worked out quite well and I hope
you agree with