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Fregnir. Fréttabréf Upplýsingar - Félags bókasafns- og upplýsingafrœða
Library and Information Congress in Oslo
in August this year. The following inter-
national speakers are confirmed:
Kay Raseroka, President of IFLA 2003-
2005. Bom in Kwazulu-Natal in South
Africa, Kay is a citizen of Botswana. She
has been in librarianship for over two de-
cades during which time she has made an
enormous contribution to the profession at
the national and intemational level. She
was the Director, University of Botswana
Library Services, when she was the first
person from the African continent to be
elected President of IFLA. At the Reykja-
vík conference, she will talk about her
presidential theme, Libraries for Lifelong
Literacy. The theme "Libraries for Life-
long Literacy", she says, "provides a focus
for activities designed to implement
IFLA's Core Values on freedom and
equity of access to information, ideas and
works of imagination and freedom of ex-
pression. By supporting unrestricted ac-
cess to information as a means of pro-
moting literacy, reading and lifelong leam-
ing, it also embodies IFLA's Professional
Priorities in these two areas." See Kay's
web site at http://medupe.ub.bw/screens/
raseroka.html for more information.
Dr Alex Byrne, President of IFLA 2005-
2007. Alex is University Librarian at the
University of Technology Sydney,
Australia. He has had a distingushed
career in librarianship in Australia, where
he has worked in several Australian states
and territories. At the intemational level,
he has served as Chair of the IFLA Free
Access to Information and Freedom of Ex-
pression (FAIFE) Committee. "FAIFE is
an initiative within IFLA to defend and
promote the basic human rights defined in
Article 19 of the United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. The FAIFE
Committee and Office further free access
to information and freedom of expression
in all aspects, directly or indirectly, related
to library and information services." Like
Kay, Alex will be speaking about his IFLA
presidential theme: Partnership - colla-
boration between flelds and across dis-
ciplines. See the full text of his paper from
the 2000 IFLA conference, "The Way of
the Wowser: Censorship as a Barrier to
Access to Information", at http://www.ifla.
org/faife/papers/psOO/bvmeOO.htm
Dr Martin Nakata is Professor and
Director of Indigenous academic pro-
grams at Jumbunna Indigenous House
of Learning, University of Technology
Sydney, Australia. He is the first Torres
Strait Islander to receive a PhD from an
Australian university and his current re-
search work is in online pedagogies with a
particular focus on Indigenous leamers. In
2002, the IFLA Goveming Board ap-
proved the development of a Statement on
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge; in
2004 a draft Statement was issued for con-
sultation. This initiative was based on a
resolution of the 15th Standing Conference
for Eastem, Central and Southem African
Library Associations (SCECSAL) of 2002.
Martin, a keynote speaker on the topic at
the IFLA conference in Glasgow in 2002,
worked on this statement with Dr Alex
Byme. Martin has been a world leader in
the study of indigenous and traditional
knowledge systems and the ways in which
those systems are being integrated into to-
day's formal education processes. The full
text of his Glasgow paper, "Indigenous
Knowledge and the Cultural Interface:
Underlying Issues at the Intersection of
Knowledge and Information Systems", is
at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/
149-138e.pdf
Dr Marian Koren, Head of Research
and International Affairs, Netherlands
Public Library Association, has held a
number of positions within IFLA over the
years, including Secretary of the Section
of Library Theory and Research, Secretary
of the Division VII Coordinating Board
(Education and Research), and currently
member of the Goveming Board. She has
a particular interest in children's rights to
information; among the articles and papers
she has written on this topic are "Human
Rights of Children: An Emerging Story" in
_The Lion and the Unicom_ (April 2001),
"Empowering Children: Rights-Based Li-
brary Services" presented at the 2004
IFLA World Library and Information Con-
gress in Buenos Aires, and "A Global Ap-
proach: The Right to Information" (Ameri-
can Library Association, 1998). See the
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