Cooperation in the National Library of Poland: 2010 Overview

As in previous years, the National Library was an active member of many international organizations: IFLA, CENL, CDNL, CERL, ASLIB, IAML, IASA, LIBER, AIB, ISSN, ISBN, ISMN, the the Bibliographical Society and Bibliotheca Baltica. Since 2008 the National Library has been a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium and Innovative User Group. In 2009 the Chief Executive of the National Library, Tomasz Makowski, was appointed for the term of three years to the management board of the European Library Management Committee.

In 2010 the National Library took part in the international projects Europeana Travel and REDISCOVER and was involved in numerous national projects such as: EAZPP – Electronic Archive of the Monuments of Polish Literature, the previously mentioned ACADEMICA and SYNAT – System of Science and Technique.  

An important issue remained the bilateral cooperation with national libraries of neighbouring countries and the exchange of publications with libraries and institutions worldwide.  In June of 2011, the National Library and the State Library in Berlin signed a cooperation agreement concerning digitisation of their collections as well as collaboration in the field of the common cultural heritage of Poland and Germany.

Tomasz Makowski

Director General of the National Library of Poland

IFLA Puerto Rico 2011

Once more, IFLA celebrated its annual conference last August, this time in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Librarians from all over the world gathered for a week for this unique oportunity to learn from other colleagues and know what the latest experiences are in other countries.

As always, public libraries played an important role, with a number of sessions in which they participated. You can read many of the presented papers in the conference website.

Here, you will also find a detailed account of every day of the congress, including videos, tweets, posts, pictures, etc.

Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination
Ministry of Culture
Spain

IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Guidelines

The third edition of the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Guidelines, published in English in its original version in 2009, is already available in 7 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Russian and Spanish. You can find all of them here.

 

The document is the culmination of a number of years work by members of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations. The Committee regards the revision of the Guidelines as an important step in promoting the development of library services to culturally and linguistically diverse members of our communities. However, these Guidelines may be applied to all types of libraries.

Main source: Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition, 2009

 Subdirectorate General for Libraries Coordination 
Ministry of Culture
Spain