68th IFLA General Conference and Council

Libraries for Life: Democracy, Diversity, Delivery

August 18^th - 24^th 2002, Glasgow, Scotland

Library and Research Services for Parliaments

Research Seminar

• Budget analysis for parliaments: the case of Poland
WIESLAW STASKIEWICZ (Bureau of Research and Analysis, Sejm, Warsaw, Poland)
Comments:
ANNA ZATKALIKOVA (Parliamentary Institute, National Council of Slovakia, Bratislava, Slowakia),
MARIANNE BJERNBACK (The Research Service Unit of the Riksdag, Stockholm, Sweden) and
AHMED ALI M. AL-MUKHAINI (The Council of Oman, Muscat, Oman)
• Dealing with clients in a political environment: practical tips on coping with recurrent problems Panel discussion:
Parliamentary democracies get the information services they deserve by JANET SEATON (Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, United Kingdom),
KOSI KEDEM (Parliament of Ghana, Accra, Ghana), PRISCILLA BAINES (Parliamentary Library, House of Commons, London, United Kingdom) and
RENATA BLAGNIENE (Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Effective and responsive needs assessment
  BOB GARDNER (Ontario Legislative Library, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, Canada)
Panel discussion:
Discussion paper by JUNE VERRIER (Parliamentary Library of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, Australia) and
Discussion paper by JOHN P. POWER (Research and Library Services, Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast, United Kingdom) and Dicussion paper by JOHN GRIMES (National Assembly for Wales)
• Working with committees: why do it and how to start
  Travailler avec les Comités : Pourquoi et comment
  
HUGH FINSTEN (Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada)
Comments:
MOIRA FRASER (Parliamentary Services of the Parliament of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand),
ANDRES SIPLANE (Department of Economic and Social Information of the Riigikogu of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia)
EUGEN GASNAS (Senate of Romania, Bucharest, Romania)
• Libraries and research services: colleagues, clients and collaborators
MARGARETA BRUNDIN (The Administrative Office of the Swedish Riksdag, Stockholm, Sweden)
Comments:
WAFAA ALI ABDEL ELAH (People's Assembly of the Republic of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt),
DULCE MARIA LIAHUT BALDOMAR (General Congress of the United Mexican States, Mexico City, Mexico) and
CHRISTIANE DE ALMEIDA MAIA (House of Representatives, Brasilia, Brazil)

Open session

Future Trends: E-government and Direct Democracy; what is the role of the library?

• E-democracy and e-government - state of the art
  ÅKE GRÖNLUND (University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden)
• E-democracy and e-government; How will it affect libraries? The case of Canada
  Les bibliothèques à l'ère de la démocratie électronique et du gouvernement en direct; Le cas du Canada
  RICHARD PARÉ (Library, The Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, Canada)