Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section
IFLA Satellite Meeting
11-13 August 2003
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Public Libraries and Multilingual Collections
An IFLA Satellite meeting was held after the 69th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Berlin, 2003. The meeting was organised by the Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations; hosted by the NBLC, Netherlands Public Library Association and the Utrecht Public Library.
70 participants from all over the world attended the conference. The conference focused on the acquisition of multilingual collections in public libraries and the marketing of library services to multicultural populations. It enabled participants to exchange practical information about the importation, cataloguing and access of multilingual books and media. Discussions took place on strategies of marketing library services to the target population.
Proceedings
- Introduction speech: On Cultural Diversity
Ton van Vlimmeren
- Providing and Promoting Public Library Services to a Culturally Diverse New South Wales
Oriana Acevedo and Kathleen Bresnahan (Public Libraries Branch, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- Being Bicultural And Multicultural - The Challenge For Auckland City Libraries Tamaki Pataka Korero
Allison Dobbie (Libraries, Auckland City Council, Auckland, New Zealand)
- Affinity Centres - A Tool for Reaching Diverse Communities: The San Francisco Model
Martín Gómez
- Celebrating Cultural Diversity in Coventry: the role of librarians and information services
Andrew Green and Mo Bains (Coventry Libraries and Information Services)
- Conceptualising Marketing of Library Services to Multicultural Communities
Dinesh Gupta
- "www.meertalen.nl" - Data Bank Multilingual Materials
Hannie Humme (Bureau Leesbevordering & Educatie, Office for reading promotion & education, Hilversum, Netherlands)
- Architects of Change: How the National Library of Canada is Responding to the New Cultural Landscape
Mijin Kim (Multicultural Resources and Services, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
- Bridging Cultures in Toronto's Libraries
Magdalena Vander Kooy
- Danish libraries creating partnerships for the advancement of multilingual library services - with special focus on the joint acquisition programme
Benedikte Kragh Schwartz & Susy Tastesen
- Public Libraries and Immigrant Populations in Spain
María Antonia García Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Library Services to Russian Speaking Immigrants in Germany
Bibliotheksangebote für russischsprachige Migranten in Deutschland
Susanne Schneehorst (Stadtbibliothek, Nürnberg, Germany)
- Public Library Services in the Netherlands: with focus on Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Lourina de Voogd (Netherlands Public Library Association, The Hague, Netheralnds)
