[LIS-Forum] Fwd: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in Argentina -Indian delegates

JK Vijayakumar vjkjk at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 4 17:12:35 IST 2004


--- "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy at yahoo.com>
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> From: "D.B.Eswara Reddy" <devaereddy at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [Agrilib] IFLA Conference in 
> Argentina -Indian delegates
> 
> Hello:
> I am happy to report that this year the IFLA
> world
> conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
> from
> 21-28, August 2004. About 3500 delegates from
> over 85
> countries attended.About 170 papers on various
> aspects
> of information literacy were presented.
>  India was represented by:
> Professor.C R Karisiddappa, Ex-President(ILA)
> Dr.J.K.Vijaya Kumar (INFLIBNET)
> Dr.Leena Shaw (Govt College,Mehidpur,Ujjain)
> Mr.R.C.Ahuja, Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha
> Secretariat
> Mr.Pavan Kumar, Director, Research Wing, Rajya
> Sabha
> Mr.Raj Kumar, P G Institute of Medical
> Education and
> Research, Chandigarh
>   Dr.karisiddappa presented three  papers and 
> Dr
> Leena Shaw,and Mr. Raj kumar each one paper.
> 
> We were greatly honored by the Indian
> Ambassador in
> Argentina,Shri Rinwing Wangdi and Smt Pema
> Wangdi who
> hosted a dinner to the Indian delegates at
> their
> residence.
> 
> I, on my part, had detailed discussion with
> several
> officers of IFLA including the Secretary
> General,
> coordinator of professional activities,and
> Chairperson
> of Special Libraries Division, and pleaded for
> a
> Separate IFLA Section for Agricultural
> Libraries.Back
> in USA, I am working on this idea and
> collecting
> letters from IFLA Members from different
> countries in
> different parts of the world. If approved by
> the
> Governing Board of IFLA in their  meeting in
> December,
> it may start as a Discussion Group in Oslo,
> Norway(2005),continue as a group in Seoul,
> Korea
> (2006) and start as a Section in Durban, South
> Africa
> (2007). This will provide another international
> forum
> for agricultural librarians, information
> professionals. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> =====
> Deva Eswara Reddy Ph.D
> Assistant Professor
> Texas A & M University
> College Station, Texas 77843
> Devaereddy at yahoo.com
> 
> 
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