IFLA 2010 - Gothenburg 12 August Love2Read
ifla2010slides-sueh.pdf - Slides from the session today (I had a few requests for them) If this link does not work, please email me at sue.hutley@alia.org.au
Thursday 12th August 2010
This morning Henning Mankell opened the day of the conference with a lovely speech on the importance of the library role in combatting illiteracy, which is still a worldwide plague. A good link between Sweden and Africa. There are reports on his presentation at IFLA here. One of his nice opening quotes was also “Laugh at least once in a day! Otherwise the life is miserable”
I also gave a keynote presentation today at the joint MLAS+other sections session – the paper is here and the slides uploaded above. The original paper was crafted with simultaneous translation in mind (at IFLA, if you have translators you normally have to pretty much stick to the original paper). Our session ended up not having any translation available, so I mixed it up just a little bit. My slides were originally designed with multi-language viewers. It was great to get the audience involved by getting them to do a Love2Read action for me. Thanks everyone for getting involved. Am still trying to upload videos to the Love2Read Facebook site over coming days. Other videos are already on the site. I know how much you all love to read. The National Year of Reading 2010 website is http://www.love2read.org.au
In my paper I spoke about a few of the ALIA Advocacy initiatives http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy and especially our Every Member an Advocate campaign, workshops and materials http://www.alia.org.au/education/pd/pd.services/every.member.advocate.html
Two of the case studies I mentioned today are : http://www.saferinternetgroup.org and http://www.alia.org.au/schoollibraries
Today’s joint session involved a number of IFLA sections in the areas of library associations, research, education, statistics etc and the papers are here http://www.ifla.org/en/conferences-session-day/2010-08-12
For me, one of my main IFLA2010 tasks is now over, so I’m off to get a quiet glass of Swedish pinot grigio to celebrate.
Sue Hutley, ALIA Executive Director
P.S. An Australian delegate got a celebrity IFLA2010 experience today. Leonard Cohen is performing in Gothenburg tonight and staying at the Congress hotel and on his way to his afternoon soundcheck he bumped into Regina Sutton, State Librarian from the State Library of NSW. After getting to talking, Leonard mentioned to Regina that his sister is a librarian. Always good to have some celebrity goss at conference 