The World Library and Information Congress in 2014 convened under the general theme “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” in one of the largest and most beautiful cities of Europe – Lyon, where two rivers Rhône and Saône meet in the shape of Y – the letter used as a logo of this year’s meeting of library, information, heritage preservation, technology… specialists, and as a symbol of unity of European cultural traditions.
The theme is associated with the presidential topic “Strong libraries, strong societies”. As some of the members of the French National Committee underlined in the welcoming speech: “Libraries are at the convergence of their patrons, the citizens they serve and the societies in which they operate, promoting anti-discrimination, lifelong learning, free access to information, use of technologies for social change”. IFLA is a confluence of different nations, societies, languages, social and cultural projects. Libraries change as societies change influenced by technological development, but they remain in focus – catalysts of inter-cultural change based on information-sharing.Lyon Convention Centre hosted all the events and exhibitions, including plenary sessions, presentations, and meetings of professional bodies, poster presentations and trade and industry exhibitors.This most important international LIS event includes presentations and lectures, IFLA professional bodies meetings, participation of supporting partners and exhibition of posters.The Congress opened on Saturday, 16 August when numerous standing committees meetings took place (committee for library education, management and marketing, cataloguing, rare books, preservation and restoration, freedom of speech, library standards…), speeches of IFLA president and keynote speakers, National Committee representatives (Director of BNF, Minister of Culture, Mayor of Lyon). IFLA activities develop through the work of 4 divisions, 43 sections, 15 special interest groups, which have multinational membership and get together during WLIC to discuss issues and documents in person.More than 80 sessions were held over the six days which were open to all registered attendants. Subjects of interest include: LIS education and training, managing special collections, digital preservation of e-books, digital repositories and content selection, preservation of digitally born documents, newspaper collections, serving persons with special needs, serving children and young adults, green libraries, building literacy and improving access to information in less developed communities, building strong library associations, and many more.211 posters gave the visitors essential information on the successful projects developed in libraries and similar institutions around the world. Their authors were there to answer numerous queries and make contacts for potential future collaborations.Expo Pavilion hosted numerous exhibitors from the industry, information services, library associations, publishers, from all over the world: EBSCO, Innovative Technology, Zeutschel digitization solutions, 4DigitalBooks scanners and software, Bookeye scanners, American Library Association, Axiell library systems, Cairn French journal database, PressReader access to e-newspapers, Cambridge University Press, Sage, De Gruyter Saur, Emerald Group Publishing, OpenEdition platforms, Oracle book cleaning machines, Neschen products for book protection, and many more.CDNL (Conference of Directors of National Libraries) had its annual meeting in Lyon on 19th August. The agenda is available at http://www.cdnl.info/2014/Annual_meeting/Agenda_CDNL_2014.pdf .Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development was launched during the WLIC and signed by more than 120 organizations with the aim to “call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development agenda”. The text is accessible through the IFLA website http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/node/522, and the translation is posted at http://bds.rs/wordpress/?p=835 .WLIC 2015 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.The Embassy of France in Montenegro and the French Cultural Centre co-funded the attendance of a librarian from the National Library of Montenegro in support of cultural interchange and promotion of knowledge-based societies. This year Vesna Vučković, foreign exchange and ISSN librarian attended IFLA as a representative of IFLA institutional member – the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević”.
The World Library and Information Congress in 2014 convened under the general theme “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” in one of the largest and most beautiful cities of Europe – Lyon, where two rivers Rhône and Saône meet in the shape of Y – the letter used as a logo of this year’s meeting of library, information, heritage preservation, technology… specialists, and as a symbol of unity of European cultural traditions.
The theme is associated with the presidential topic “Strong libraries, strong societies”. As some of the members of the French National Committee underlined in the welcoming speech: “Libraries are at the convergence of their patrons, the citizens they serve and the societies in which they operate, promoting anti-discrimination, lifelong learning, free access to information, use of technologies for social change”. IFLA is a confluence of different nations, societies, languages, social and cultural projects. Libraries change as societies change influenced by technological development, but they remain in focus – catalysts of inter-cultural change based on information-sharing.Lyon Convention Centre hosted all the events and exhibitions, including plenary sessions, presentations, and meetings of professional bodies, poster presentations and trade and industry exhibitors.This most important international LIS event includes presentations and lectures, IFLA professional bodies meetings, participation of supporting partners and exhibition of posters.The Congress opened on Saturday, 16 August when numerous standing committees meetings took place (committee for library education, management and marketing, cataloguing, rare books, preservation and restoration, freedom of speech, library standards…), speeches of IFLA president and keynote speakers, National Committee representatives (Director of BNF, Minister of Culture, Mayor of Lyon). IFLA activities develop through the work of 4 divisions, 43 sections, 15 special interest groups, which have multinational membership and get together during WLIC to discuss issues and documents in person.More than 80 sessions were held over the six days which were open to all registered attendants. Subjects of interest include: LIS education and training, managing special collections, digital preservation of e-books, digital repositories and content selection, preservation of digitally born documents, newspaper collections, serving persons with special needs, serving children and young adults, green libraries, building literacy and improving access to information in less developed communities, building strong library associations, and many more.211 posters gave the visitors essential information on the successful projects developed in libraries and similar institutions around the world. Their authors were there to answer numerous queries and make contacts for potential future collaborations.Expo Pavilion hosted numerous exhibitors from the industry, information services, library associations, publishers, from all over the world: EBSCO, Innovative Technology, Zeutschel digitization solutions, 4DigitalBooks scanners and software, Bookeye scanners, American Library Association, Axiell library systems, Cairn French journal database, PressReader access to e-newspapers, Cambridge University Press, Sage, De Gruyter Saur, Emerald Group Publishing, OpenEdition platforms, Oracle book cleaning machines, Neschen products for book protection, and many more.CDNL (Conference of Directors of National Libraries) had its annual meeting in Lyon on 19th August. The agenda is available at http://www.cdnl.info/2014/Annual_meeting/Agenda_CDNL_2014.pdf .Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development was launched during the WLIC and signed by more than 120 organizations with the aim to “call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development agenda”. The text is accessible through the IFLA website http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/node/522, and the translation is posted at http://bds.rs/wordpress/?p=835 .WLIC 2015 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.The Embassy of France in Montenegro and the French Cultural Centre co-funded the attendance of a librarian from the National Library of Montenegro in support of cultural interchange and promotion of knowledge-based societies. This year Vesna Vučković, foreign exchange and ISSN librarian attended IFLA as a representative of IFLA institutional member – the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević”.