Dates and Deadlines for Officers

January

[Start of the new financial year.]

HQ mails Satellite Meeting Enquiry Form (Form S) for the conference next year, e.g. 1 ½ years in advance.

HQ mails the second part of the 'Programme Enquiry Forms' (Form O and W, formerly Form B) to Officers for final confirmation of plans for meetings at the current conference.

January 15: Deadline for Annual Reports at IFLA HQ

February

February 7: Call for nominations for President-elect and Members of the Governing Board of IFLA

February 7: Call for Nominations for Section Standing Committees

February 7: Call for Nominations for IFLA/CLM Committee

February 7: Call for Nominations for IFLA/FAIFE Committee

February 15: Deadline for applications to present poster sessions at the conference, for the PC

March

March 1: Deadline for returning Programme Enquiry Forms (O & W) to HQ, to specify full details of meeting programmes (speakers and titles of papers) and equipment requested.

March 1: Deadline for applications to hold satellite meetings at the next year’s conference.

Please check the forms for the actual deadlines, since that may change slightly.

April

April 15: Section Officers should receive their group's conference papers from authors by this date, and send them for translation.

May

May 15: Deadline for conference registration at a reduced fee. (in most years)

June

June 15: Deadline for receipt of all approved conference papers at HQ, to make sure that they can be made available to all delegates

July

July 15: Deadline for translations of forthcoming conference papers, to HQ; deadline for processing all late-arriving papers. Papers received after this date will not be included on the "Conference papers" CD-ROM and will not be processed until after the conference and will not be available until 1 October via IFLANET.

HQ finalises the conference programme and sends them to the Organising Committee and to the Officers.