Session	Year	Venue	President
1	1928	Rome	Isak G.A. Collijn 1927-1931
2	1929	Rome, Florence, Venice
3	1930	Stockholm
4	1931	Cheltenham
5	1932	Berne	William Warner Bishop 1931-1936
6	1933	Chicago and Avignon
7	1934	Madrid
8	1935	Madrid and Barcelona
9	1936	Warsaw	Marcel Godet 1936-1947
10	1937	Paris
11	1938	Brussels
12	1939	The Hague and Amsterdam
13	1947	Oslo	Wilhelm Munthe 1947-1951
14	1948	London
15	1949	Basel
16	1950	London
17	1951	Rome
18	1952	Copenhagen	Pierre Bourgeois 1951-1958
19	1953	Vienna
20	1954	Zagreb
21	1955	Brussels
22	1956	Munich
23	1957	Paris
24	1958	Madrid
25	1959	Warsaw	Gustav Hofmann 1958-1963
26	1960	Lund and Malmö
27	1961	Edinburgh
28	1962	Berne
29	1963	Sofia
30	1964	Rome	Sir Frank Francis 1963-1969
31	1965	Helsinki
32	1966	The Hague Libraries and Documentation
33	1967	Toronto Library Service for a Nation Covering a Large Geographical Area
34	1968	Frankfurt am Main Books and Libraries in and Industrial Society
35	1969	Copenhagen Library Education and Research in Librarianship
36	1970	Moscow Lenin and Libraries	Herman Liebaers 1969-1974
37	1971	Liverpool The Organization of the Library Profession
38	1972	Budapest Reading in a Changing World
39	1973	Grenoble Universal Bibliographic Control
40	1974	Washington National and International Library Planning
41	1975	Oslo The Future of International Library Cooperation	Preben Kirkegaard 1974-1979
42	1976	Lausanne IFLA
43	1977	Brussels Libraries for All: One World of Information, Culture and Learning
44	1978	Strbské Pleso Universal Availability of Publications
45	1979	Copenhagen Library Legislation
46	1980	Manila Development of Libraries and Information Systems	Else Granheim 1979-1985
47	1981	Leipzig The Role of National Centres in National Library Development and in International Library Cooperation
48	1982	Montreal Networks
49	1983	Munich Libraries in a Technical World
50	1984	Nairobi Basis of Information Services for National Development
51	1985	Chicago Libraries and the Universal Availability of Information
52	1986	Tokyo New Horizons of Librarianship towards the 21st Century	Hans-Peter Geh 1985-1991
53	1987	Brighton Libraries and Information Services in a Changing World
54	1988	Sydney Living together: People, Libraries, Information
55	1989	Paris Les Bibliothèques et l’information dans l’économie hier, aujourd’hui et demain
56	1990	Stockholm Libraries: Information for Knowledge
57	1991	Moscow Libraries and Culture: Their Relationship
58	1992	New Delhi Library and Information Policy Perspectives	Robert Wedgeworth 1991-1997
59	1993	Barcelona The Universal Library: Libraries as Centres for the Global Availability of Information
60	1994	Havana Libraries and Social Development
61	1995	Istanbul Libraries of the Future
62	1996	Beijing The Challenge of Change
63	1997	Copenhagen Libraries and Information for Human Development
64	1998	Amsterdam On Crossroads of Information and Culture	Christine Deschamps 1997-2003
65	1999	Bangkok On the Threshold of a New Century: Libraries as Gateways to an Enlightened World
66	2000	Jerusalem Information for Cooperation: Creating the Global Library of the Future
67	2001	Boston Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age
68	2002	Glasgow Libraries for Life: Democracy, Diversity, Delivery
69	2003	Berlin Access Point Library: Media - Information - Culture