Governing Board

IFLA's Governing Board (GB) is responsible for the governance and financial and professional directions of IFLA, and represents the Federation in legal and other formal proceedings.

The Board consists of the President, the President-elect, ten directly elected members, the Chair of the Professional Committee, the Chairs of each IFLA Division, and the Chair of the Management of Library Associations Section's Standing Committee.

Up to three further GB members may be co-opted to provide expertise or represent special interests. IFLA's Secretary General, who serves as the Board's Secretary, is an ex officio member.

President (2009-2011)

Ellen Tise
Senior Director
Library and Information Services, J.S. Gericke Library, University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X5036
7599 Stellenbosch
South Africa
Work +(27)(21)8084880
Fax +(27)(21)8083723

www.sun.ac.za/library

President-elect (2009-2011)

Ingrid Parent
University Librarian
University of British Columbia, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
V6T 1Z1 Vancouver, B.C.
Canada
Work +(1)604-827-3486

www.library.ubc.ca

Treasurer

Barbara Schleihagen
Executive Director
Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e.V. (DBV)
Strasse des 17. Juni 114
D-10623 Berlin
Germany
Work +(49)(30)644 98 99 12
Fax +(49)(30)644 98 99 29

Member

Jesus Lau
Universidad Veracruzana
Ruiz Cortines 650, Frac Costa Verde
94294 Boca del Rio
Veracruz, Mexico
Work +(52)(229)7752021
Fax +(52)(229)7752000/22102

www.jesuslau.com/ifla

Member

Sinikka Sipilä
Secretary General
Finnish Library Association
Runeberginkatu 15 A 23
00100 Helsinki
Finland
Work +(358)(9)6221399
Fax +(358)(9)6221466

Member

Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan
University Librarian
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Library
Kumasi
Ghana
Work +(233)(51)60133
Fax +(233)(51)60137

Member

Danielle Mincio
Head of Manuscript Collections
Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire
CH-1015 Lausanne - Dorigny
Switzerland
Work +(41)(21)6924802
Fax +(41)(21)6924845

Member

Qiang Zhu
Director
Peking University Library
No. 5 Yiheyuan Lu, Haidan District
100871 Beijing
China
Work +86-10-62759055
Fax +86-10-62761008

Member

Tone Eli Moseid
Director
ABM-Utvikling
POB 8145 DEP
N-0033 Oslo
Norway
Work +(47)23117500
Fax +(47)23117501

Member

Donna Scheeder
Director, Law Library Services
Law Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. S.E.
20546 Washington DC
United States
Work +(1)(202)7078939
Fax +(1)(202)7071820

Member

Paul Whitney
City Librarian
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia Street, Level 7
V6B 6B1 Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
Work +(1 ) 604-331-4007
Fax +(1) 604-331-4080

Member

Pascal Sanz
Directeur, Département Droit, économie, politique
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Quai François Mauriac
75706 Paris CEDEX 13
France
Work +(33)(1)53795100
Fax +(33)(1)53795125

Chair Professional Committee

Patrice Landry
Chief of Classification and Indexing
Swiss National Library
Hallwylstrasse 15
3003 Bern
Switzerland
Work +(41)(31)3240625
Fax +(41)(31)3228463

Chair Division I

Steve W. Witt
Associate Director
Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
303 International Studies Building, MC-402, 910 South Fifth Street
61820 Champaign, IL
United States
Work +(1)(217)2657518
Fax +(1)(217)3336270

cgs.illinois.edu/

Chair Division II

Ann Okerson
Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs
Yale University Library, Sterling Memorial Library
P.O. BOX 208240
CT 06520-8240 New Haven
United States
Work +(1)(203)4321764
Fax +(1)(203)4327231

www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html

Chair Division III

Judith J. Field
Senior Lecturer, Library and Information Science
Wayne State University
106 Kresge
MI 48202 Detroit
United States
Work +(1)(313)577-8539
Fax +(1)(313)577-7563

Chair Division IV

Michael Heaney
Executive Secretary, Oxford University Library Services
Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library
OX1 3BG UK Oxford
United Kingdom
Work +(44) (0) 1865 277 236
Fax +(44) (0) 1865 277 187

Chair Division V

Buhle Mbambo-Thata
Executive Director
UNISA, Library Services
P.O. Box 392
0003 Pretoria
South Africa
Work +(27)(12)4293131 / 4293844
Fax +(27)(12)4292925

Chair Management of Library Associations Section

Janice R. Lachance
Chief Executive Officer
Special Libraries Association (SLA)
331 South Patrick Street
VA-22314-3501 Alexandria
United States
Work +(1)(703)647 4933
Fax +(1)(703)647 4901

Secretary General (since 2008)

Jennefer Nicholson
IFLA Headquarters
P.O. Box 95312
2509CH The Hague
The Netherlands
Work +31 70 3140884
Fax +31 70 3834827