IFLA 2010 - Gothenburg - 13 August
13th August 2010
Today I spent some time at the trade exhibition talking to vendors and suppliers about ‘what’s new’. There was quite a few scanning machine types for digitisation and copying options. There is also a book cleaning machine. And a funky sound booth chair from Schulz Speyer. And there are the usual trade supporters of LMS companies, journal publishers and electronic resources vendors. ALA and IFLA also has stands.
The posters were also accompanied by their authors at lunchtime today - there are a lot of posters this year, including some from Australia, and it was good to speak to a few of the presenters and gather abit more info.
I also attended the OCLC update, and we also thank OCLC for being one of the IFLA Congresses major sponsors. OCLC Research (useful reports) and their Innovation Lab are creating many applications http://www.oclc.org/applicationgallery/ and trialing ‘cool tools for libraries’ as well as continuing to make the world’s library collections more accessible. This year’s OCLC reception was also a very nice networking function held at the Gothenburg Museum of Art last night.
This afternoon was the National Associations meeting of IFLA member associations. Ellen Tise and Jennefer Nicolson spoke on the important role that national associations play in IFLA. We support the work of IFLA in many ways, including local, country specific perspective and lobbying on certain topics such as copyright and freedom of access to information. Winston Tabb, Chair of the Copyright and Legal Matters gave us an update on the library treaties currently being negotiated http://www.ifla.org/en/news/29 A number of Australians continue to contribute to the work of CLM and especially through the ALCC.
Sue Hutley, ALIA Executive Director