IFLA and Its Future Policy

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Establishing Korean Polar Data Management Policy and Its Future Directions

Korea implemented its Antarctic research program in 1987 and diversified to the Arctic in 2002. Since the development of the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, Korea has acknowledged the importance of data management. The launch of the Korea Polar Research Institute in 2004 also saw establishment of the Korea Polar Data Center (KPDC), which outlines and executes a Polar Data Manageme...

Seventy - Five Years of IFLA

Strangely enough, IFLA was itself born during the celebrations of another professional anniversary; that of the (British) Library Association. It was at the 50th anniversary conference, held in Edinburgh, of the second oldest library association in the world, that a resolution was passed which led to the establishment of what we now know and love as IFLA. So it is very appropriate that we retur...

IFLA Jerusalem Conference , August 2000

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

Future Biofuels Policy Alternatives