School Libraries and Resource Centers
Secretary Report
2006
1. Interim follow-up secretary
After the untimely death of Dr. Anne Clyde I took over from James Henri and became the new secretary. The files and administration from Dr. Anne Clyde were not available and it appeared to be very difficult to follow up on arrangements that were made earlier. Much time had to be spent on clarification and renewing or establishing contacts.
2. Regular Administration
During the year I have dealt with the standard ongoing correspondence from IFLA Headquarters and the Division III Coordinating Board, as well as from a range of individuals.
3. Mid Year Division III Meeting Copenhagen
The Section Chair and I participated in a two day meeting. This was a good opportunity to share ideas and concerns and may lead to better synergies among Sections at future conferences.
4. Mid Year Section Meeting Copenhagen
The Division III meeting was a splendid opportunity planning a mid-year section meeting. Including the chair and myself, 5 SC members were present and many issues were discussed including the Seoul Conference preparation. Together we selected the papers for our open session, discussed the possibility of a satellite session in Durban 2007 and a mid-year meeting in 2007, combined with local workshops.
5. Mid-year meeting and local workshops Zagreb
In July, a contact was established in Zagreb and communication started on the possibilities of a local workshop in cooperation with ENSIL (European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy:
http://www.ensil.eu) in February-March 2007, to be combined with the Mid-year meeting of Division III.
6. Preparation Seoul 2006 Conference
Much correspondence and communication was necessary with regard to the WLIC conference 2006. Not only with the presenters of the papers and posters and IFLA HQ on facilities but also with the local officers on the possibility of a satellite session and officers of the Asia & Oceania Section on the possibility of a joint open session.
6. Cooperation with IASL
On request of IFLA HQ (Mr. Sjoerd Koopman), contacts were established and a meeting was organized with the leadership of IASL (International Association of School Librarianship:
http://www.iasl-slo.org) during the 35th annual conference of IASL in Lisbon (July 2006). Topic of this meeting was collaboration and cooperation between the School Libraries and Resource Centers Section of IFLA and IASL.
Lourense H. Das
Secretary
