2012 Annual IFLA Congress

The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments planned a rich programme for the 2012 IFLA Congress in Finland! The Section organized an individual Session during the main conference programme and a number of Joint sessions with other Sections.  Besides the sessions during the main conference, the Section held it's 28th annual satellite meeting, kindly hosted by the Parliament of Finland.

You can find below links to the papers for all the Section's activities during the pre-conference and conference days.

Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
Theme: Parliamentary Libraries: Strengthening Democracy  

• Joint session with Law Libraries Section, Session 214
  Theme: Libraries for law and for lawmakers  
• Joint session with Information Technology Section, Session 103
  Theme: Usability And Accessibility – The Mobile Challenge  
• Joint session with Law Libraries Section, Government Libraries Section and Government and Official Publications Section, Session 129
  Theme: Promoting global access to law: developing an open access index for official authenticated legal information. Part 2: Europe 
• Joint session with Government Libraries Section, Government Information and Official Publications Section and Law Libraries Section, Session 193
  Theme: The surprising world of Government Libraries: trends in survival and prospect of new services 
• Joint session with Knowledge Management Section
  Theme: Knowledge cafe: driving access & services
   
• Pre-conference Satellite meeting, hosted by the Library of the Finnish Parliament
  • Theme: Parliamentary Libraries – Empowering Parliaments and Citizens