• The parliamentary library of Cambodia ;
  by Seng Sowatha

• The parliamentary library of the Cook Islands ;
  by Jean Chapman Mason.

• The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Legislative Council Library ;
  by Eva Liu

• Parliamentary library of the Republic of Indonesia ;
  by Damayanti Harris

• Information technology in Indian Parliament ;
  by M. Rajagopalan Nair

• New century, new appearance. Electronic national parliamentary library Legislative Yuan. Republic of China (Taiwan) ;
  by Jewel Shiou-Yyuan Chen

The full text of the presentations are available through the Information Co-ordinator of the Section, Marialyse Délano Serrano, or Jan Keukens, Secretary of the Section.

1. Welcome by Chairman [Note: All members of the section are invited and encouraged to attend these meetings and participate in discussion. However if matters require a formal votes only the members of the Standing Committee are allowed to vote. Only members of the Standing Committee for the period 1999-2001 who are present at the meeting may vote at the election of Officers of the Section]

2. Approval of Draft Agenda

3. Approval of Minutes of Standing Committee meetings in Amsterdam on 16 August 1998 and 21 August 1998 [See Section Newsletter of December 1998 p3-11or homepage
   http://www.ifla.org/VII/s3/news/new1298e.htm]

4. Officers' Reports including membership report (Tanfield) and financial report (Keukens)

5. Roll Call of Standing Committee Members

6. Election of the new Chairman and of the Secretary.

7. Proposal of a new Information Coordinator

8. Approval of two new Corresponding Members (Irina Andreeva and Tembi Mtine)

9. News from the IFLA Coordinating Board (Tanfield)

10. Details of Sectional Activities at the Bangkok Conference including the staffing of the IFLA booth on Tuesday 24 August, 1500-1600hrs (Tanfield)

    10. Report on Regional Activities

    APLA (Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Australasia) (Brian?)
    APLAP (Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Asia and the Pacific) ( Simandjuntak)
    APLIC/ABPAC (Association of Parliamentary Librarians of Canada/L'Association des Bibliothécaires Parlementaires au Canada) (?Paré/Dickerson/Bernier)
    APLESA (Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Eastern and Southern Africa) (?Namhila)
    AAPLDA (proposed Association of African Parliamentary Librarians, Documentalists and Archivists) (Kedem)
    ECPRD (European Centre for Parliamentary Documentation and Research (?Sosna)
    PARDOC (the association of French-Speaking Parliamentary Libraries (Milogo)
    NCSL (US National Conference of State Legislatures) (Scheeder)
    NORDIC countries (?Brundin)

    Any news on regional associations for SARC (South Asian) countries (?Joseph) and Latin America (Delano) or for other regions

11. Discussion Paper on Twinning (Introduced by Mary Dickerson)

12. World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries - content and the problem of updating

13. The 2000 IFLA Conference. New Chairman to discuss ideas for a Pre-Conference and invite suggestions for the programme and for Open Meeting papers

14. The Medium Term Plan 1999-2004

15. Action Plan for 2000 and 2001

16. Any other business