Conference Session 88
IFLA Highlights and News Session
13 August 2012 09:30 - 10:45 | Room: Session Room 5
NOTE: this session will be live-streamed!
Major announcements, awards, updates and other important IFLA-related news will be made during this session. Congress delegates and all members of the Press are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Chair: Ingrid Parent, IFLA President
The World Library and Information Congress 2012 in Finland:
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Welcome to Finland and the IFLA WLIC 2012 Helsinki
MAIJA BERNDTSON (Chair of the 2012 Finnish National Committee) -
Highlights and innovations in the Congress Programme
SINIKKA SIPILA (President-elect)
IFLA Advocacy for Libraries and their users - Highlights
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Some highlights of the Presidential year
INGRID PARENT(IFLA President) -
Protecting access to information in the public domain in international treaties
STUART HAMILTON (IFLA Director of Policy and Advocacy) -
FAIFE Research Project on Freedom of Access to Digital Information
TBA (FAIFE) -
IFLA International Leaders Programme
JENNEFER NICHOLSON (IFLA Secretary General)
Partnerships
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Announcement 2013 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Programme Fellows
JAY JORDAN (CEO, OCLC) -
10th IFLA International Marketing Award
EILEEN BREEN (Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.) -
De Gruyter/Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2012 + Publications 2012/2013
ALICE KELLER (Publishing Director - De Gruyter) -
Director, IFLA-CASL and Arabian Advanced Systems (AAS) Conference Grant
DINA YOUSSEF (IFLA Centre for Arabic Speaking Libraries (IFLA-CASL), Bibliotheca Alexandrina Alexandria, Egypt) -
Dr Shawky Salem Conference Grant 2012
SHAWKY SALEM (Chairman Alex Centre for Multimedia and Libraries - ACML) -
IFLA LIS Student Paper Award 2012
PETRA HAUKE and BARBARA LISON (ekz library service, Germany). -
Grantees IFLA World Library and Information Congress (+ Aspire Award)
INGRID PARENT (IFLA President)
Photograph and brief interview opportunity on all topics directly after the meeting
Last update: 11 August 2012