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Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee held on Saturday 21 August 1999, Bangkok at 3.00 p.m.
In absence and on the request of the Chair Pamela Richards and the
Secretary Paul Sturges the meeting was opened by Don Davis.
Present: Don Davis USA, John Cole USA, Mikhail Afanasiev Russian Federation,
Cheng Huanwen China and Magnus Torstensson Sweden.
Observer: Fr. Angel Aparicio Philippines.
Apologies for absence: Pamela Richards USA (Chair), Paul Sturges UK
(Secretary/Treasurer), Stephen Massil UK, Martine Poulain France, Jorgen
Svane-Mikkelsen Denmark, Paul Schneiders Neatherlands and Peter
Vodosek Germany.
- The minutes of the meeting on 15 August 1998 in Amsterdam were
agreed.
- Thanks were expressed to Pamela Richards for the good program she made for
Amsterdam and to those who had paper on the open session there.
- The open session for the Bangkok conference have been prepared
with a mix of Asian and general themes with papers by Suwakhon
Siriwongworawat (National Library of Thailand, Bangkok), Vicente S.
Hernandez (Sangandaan Cultural Centre, Makati City, Philippines) and
Don Davis (Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Two Newsletter, nr 11 and 12, have been edited by the Secretary
since the EC meeting in Amsterdam.
- The financial report will be presented in RTLH´s Newsletter 13
Fall 1999.
Stephen Massil works on a program for the open session with
contributions on the book and libary history of the three great
religions of the book (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). The RTLH will
also be associated with a workshop on Judaica and Hebraica, similar to
the one which was successful in Amsterdam in 1998.
- Planning continues concerning the seminar Libraries in times of
utopian thoughts and social protest - the libraries of the late
1960-ies and 1970-ties. The seminar will take place in Borås, Sweden
in late May/early June 2001. The seminar will be sponsored by the
IFLA-section Library Theory and Research. The main responsibility
for the seminar will be taken by Magnus Torstensson.
- The Boston Conference in 2001:
A workshop on The History of Library Management is planned. It will be
managed by Don Davis and Magnus Torstensson in cooperation with
library historians in the USA. Papers are planned on Justin Winsor and
Melvin Dewey. Besides there will be papers on library management
during the 20 century.
For the open session three papers are planned on important libraries
in the Boston region viz. Harvard College/ University Library,
Boston Athenaeums and Boston Public Library..Don Davis works on the
program.
The Library History Group of the Library Association works on the RTLH
program.
- Election of Officers for 1999-2001 . Neither the Chair Pamela
Richards nor the Secretary/Treasurer Paul Sturges stood for
reelection.
Don Davis, was elected as Chair and Magnus Torstensson, Swedish
School of Library and Information Studies in Borås, as
Secretary/Treasurer
- Each participant at the meeting made a comment on national
projects and developments in library history in their own country.
Mikhail Afanasiev and Cheng Huanwen will report from
Russian Federation respectively China in coming editions of the Newsletter
- John Cole gave information about the bicentennial conference of
the Library of Congress to be held in Washington 23-26 October
2000.
- Information was given about the conference From People´s
University to People´s Library - a celebration of 150 years of the
public library in Britain to be held in Croydon 3-4 April 2000.
- Don Davis closed the meeting and he and Magnus Torstensson
thanked for the shown reliance.
Borås, Sweden 1st October 1999
Magnus Torstensson
Secretary
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